Supraśl Manuscript


The Supraśl Manuscript is a codex compiled in 1519. It has 175 folios in total. On folios 3r up to 108v of the manuscript, it contains a compilation of first-redaction Lithuanian Chronicles, that are estimated to have been originally written in Early Ruthenian in the mid-15th century. It also contains copies of the Kyiv Caves Patericon and the Wiślica Statutes of Casimir the Great, amongst other things. The codex was rediscovered in 1822 in the Supraśl Orthodox Monastery.

Structure

Legend:
  • fol. = folio, sheet.
  • r. = recto, the first side of a folio. Corresponds to "лл".
  • v. = verso, the second side of a folio. Corresponds to "об.".
Fol.Notes
1Gospel readings index; unrelated to chronicles.
1a – 2vGenealogy of Odintsevychi
3r–72vIncipit: Избрание лЂтописания изложено въкратце
  • This part reports on the failed coronation of Vytautas and his death;
  • on the accession of Svidrigailo and his struggle with Sigismund;
  • then the .
  • At the end there are several reports of events in/about Smolensk.
  • The section ends in 1446 with the blinding of Vasily II of Moscow.
87r – 108rChronicler of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
  • a list of the sons of the Grand Duke Gediminas
  • Vytautas's reign in Lithuania
  • 102r – 108r: The Tale about Podolia.
  • Explicit : ляхове, пана Долькгирда из города ис Каменца созвали на раду к собе и до рады не допустивши самого иняли и огьрабили, и Каменець засели, и все тое забрали, што Подолъскои земли держать.
    • 108v – 125rWiślica Statutes of Casimir the Great, translated into Ruthenian.
    125v – 126rA genealogy of dukes of Masovia, and a complaint to the king about the starost of Zamość. Written in Old Belarusian with various 17th-century handwritings and inks.
    127r – 172rKyiv Caves Patericon
    173r – 174vVarious random writings in Belarusian and Polish; some Polish poetry.
    175Gospel readings index; unrelated to chronicles.

    Contents

    In 1836, M. A. Obolensky published a critical edition titled Супрасльская рукопись, содержащая Новгородскую и Киевскую сокращенные летописи .
    Contrary to earlier scholarly belief, the Supraśl Chronicle does not contain an account of a 10-week-long 1240 siege of Kiev.

    Critical editions

    • Супрасльская летопись , eds S. L. Ptashitsky and A. A. Shakhmatov, in PSRL, Moscow, 2008, vol. 17, col. 25.
    • M. A. Obolensky, Супрасльская рукопись, содержащая Новгородскую и Киевскую сокращенные летописи . Moscow.
    • Moscow, Российский государственный архив древних актов , f. 181, op. 1, ch. 1, no. 21/26.
    • Moscow, State Historical Museum, , no. 154.
    • A. N. Nasonov, ‘Vvedenie’, in PSRL, vol. 5/1, pp. 9–44
    • Ol'ga L. Novikova, , in , St Petersburg, 1996, vol. 50, pp. 384–86.

    • Literature

    Category:16th-century manuscripts
    Category:Ruthenian-language literature
    Category:Legal history of Lithuania
    Category:Chronicles about Lithuania