Novgorodsko-Sofiysky Svod
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"[T]extual comparisons of reconstructed non-texts [the Trinity Chronicle] with hypothetical non-texts [the Compilation of 1448] in order to determine textual primacy cannot be definitive. (...) Inventing new hypothetical compilations or redating old hypothetical compilations is fun, but not terribly productive."
The Novgorodsko-Sofiysky Svod (Russian: Новгородско-Софийский свод, lit. 'Novgorod-Sofia Compilation') is a tentative name for a hypothetical common source for the Novgorod Fourth Chronicle and the Sofia First Chronicle, according to Russian philologist Aleksey Shakhmatov.[2]
Shakhmatov initially dated it by the year 1448, hence it also used to be called the 1448 compilation (Russian: свод 1448 года), but later revised his opinion to the 1430s.[2] Some Russian philologists shared his opinion, while others attribute the common source to the 1418 compilation of Metropolitan Photius.[3]
