[Псковские летописи]

15^th-17^th century. Russia. A group of chronicles in Church Slavonic (Russian recension, with a strong influence of local dialect) representing Pskovian chronicle writing from the 13^th to the 16^th century. The oldest manuscript is the so-called Synodal copy of the Second Pskov Chronicle (Moscow, Государственный исторический музей, Син. 154), which is dated to the 1480s.

The tradition of chronicle notes was begun in Pskov in the 13^th century and was put on a regular basis in the following century. In the beginning work on the chronicle was und…