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[[File:Pochwała Witoldowi.jpg|thumb|''Slutsk Chronicle'' л.51. (fol.51r): opening of the ''[[Praise to Vytautas]]'': ''<span style="color:#E97500">[Похвала] o великомь князи Витовте.</span> <span style="color:red">'''Т'''</span>аину цареву таити добро есть, a дела великаго господаря поведати добро жь есть. Хочю вамь поведати o великомь князи Олександре ВитовтЂ литовьскомь и руськомь, иных многих земли господари. Но по неи же есть писано: «Братя, бога боитася, a князя чтите». Такожь и я хочю вамь поведати o славномь томь господари, но не мо...''"{{efn|"Praise to Grand Prince Vytautas. It is good to keep a tsar's secrets; but it is likewise good to tell the deeds of a great sovereign. I want to tell you about the great Prince Alexander Vytautas of Lithuania and Ruthenia, lord of many lands. But it is written: 'Brothers, fear God and honour the prince.' I also want to tell you about that glorious lord, but I cannot..."{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980c|p=75}}}}]]
[[File:Полное собрание русских летописей 17 РГБ.pdf|thumb|page=59|PSRL Volume 17 (1907), columns 85–124.]]
[[File:ПСРЛ Том 35 Летописи Белорусско-Литовские.pdf|250px|page=67|thumb|[[Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles|PSRL]] vol. 35 (1980), pp. 68–84.]]
The '''''Slutsk Chronicle''''',{{efn|[[Taraškievica]] and {{langx|be|Слуцкі летапіс|Slucki letapis}}. {{langx|uk|Слу́цький літо́пис|Sluckyj litopys}}. {{langx|ru|Слуцкая летопись|Slutskaja letopis'}}.}} also known as the '''Uvarov Manuscript''',{{efn|Pre-1918 {{langx|ru|Уваровскій списокъ|Uvarovskij spisok"}}. {{langx|uk|Ува́ровський список|Uvarovsjkyj spysok}}. Also known as the ''Uvarovskyi Chronicle''.{{sfn|Slipushko|2022|p=22}}}} is an early modern [[Lithuanian Chronicles|Belarusian-Lithuanian chronicle]] from the 16th century.

== Provenance ==
The manuscript was purchased by ethnographer I. P. Sakharov from his teacher Uspensky, who had acquired the manuscript from a village priest.{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}} Sakharov wrote that Uspensky was "from Lithuania", which in early-19th-century terminology referred to all of western and central Belarus, except for Lithuania itself; therefore, it's possible he came from the [[Slutsky Uyezd]].{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}} Some of Sakharov's notes on the manuscript are erroneous, such as that he mistakenly thought it was the [[Supraśl Manuscript]] (which was considered lost at the time).{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}}

In 1847, the manuscript passed into the collection of archaeologist [[Aleksey Uvarov]] (hence the alternative name "Uvarov Manuscript").{{sfn|Mytsyk|2010|p=664}} The manuscript is currently preserved as No. 1381 (153) as part of the A. S. Uvarov Collection in the Manuscripts Department of the [[State Historical Museum]], located in Moscow.{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}}{{sfn|Mytsyk|2010|p=664}}

== Description of the manuscript ==
The manuscript currently has 106 sheets (folios), except for the first pages of the manuscript,{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}} which are missing.{{sfn|Mytsyk|2010|p=664}}{{clarification needed|date=August 2025|reason=Does this refer to the first 5 sheets that are defective 9(дефектных) but restored, or were there still other pages before the defective-but-restored first 5 currently in the manuscript?}} The first 5 sheets are defective, and were later restored on strips of paper glued to the remains of the sheets, on one side, and then numbered.{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}} The ''[[Recto and verso|recto]]'' side of the sheets have been numbered in Arabic numbers in 19th-century handwriting in the lower right corner.{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}} Moreover, both sides of the sheets have also been numbered with Arabic numerals in on the upper margins.{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}} In the lower margin of the 6th sheet, someone added a note in 19th-century handwriting: "The pages of the entire sheets of the chronicle are designated with Arabic numerals by me on 14 January 1839." The signature that follows has been erased.{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}}

The text was written in [[semi-uncial]] script the mid-16th century in [[Ruthenian language#Early Ruthenian (c. 1300–1550)|Early Ruthenian]], in its Old Belarusian variety.{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}} The margins of the manuscript contain some information about the history of the [[Principality of Slutsk|Princes of Slutsk]]. On this basis, it has commonly been assumed that the manuscript was created in the city of [[Slutsk]] (or ''Sluck'', originally ''Sluchesk''), in modern-day [[Belarus]]. This is where it got its name ''Slutsk Chronicle'' from.{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}}

== Contents ==
The chronicle consists of two parts.{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}} The first part (fol. 1r–76r{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}}) focuses on the activities of [[Vytautas the Great]].{{sfn|Mytsyk|2010|p=664}} It also tells about the Grand Dukes of Lithuania [[Algirdas]] (Olgerd), [[Kęstutis]] (Keystut), [[Jogaila]] (later [[Władysław II Jagiełło]]), the Prince of Kiev [[Skirgaila]] (son of Algirdas), the [[Battle of Blue Waters]] in 1362/3, and the [[Battle of the Vorskla River]] (1399).{{sfn|Mytsyk|2010|p=664}} The ''[[Tale of Podolia|Tale about Podolia]]'' is found on folio 28v–49r (л.28об.–л.49.).{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980c|pp=72–75}} There is information about [[Gregory Tsamblak]] (the elected but anathematised Metropolitan of Kiev from 1414 to 1419/20), and about how Prince {{ill|Dashko Ostrovsky|uk|Дашко Острозький}} captured Kremenets and freed [[Švitrigaila]] (another son of Algirdas) from prison in 1418.{{sfn|Mytsyk|2010|p=664}} The text of the ''[[Praise to Vytautas]]'' is situated on folio 51r–58v (л.51–л.58об.).{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980c|pp=75–77}}

The second, smaller part{{sfn|Mytsyk|2010|p=664}} (fol.76v–106r{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}}) is a concise history of [[Kievan Rus']] from 970 (the reign of [[Vladimir the Great|Volodimer' I]] in [[Veliky Novgorod]]) to 1237 (the [[Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus']]).{{sfn|Mytsyk|2010|p=664}} The title of the second part reads "Летописецъ o великом князи московскомъ, како далеки от роду Володимирова" ("Chronicler of the Grand Prince of Moscow, how far removed from the [[Family of Vladimir the Great|family of Volodimir']].").{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}} Fol.79r adds a subtitle: "Летописец от великого князя Володимеря киевьского" ("Chronicler from the Grand Prince Volodimer' of Kiev'.").{{sfn|Ulashchik|1980b|p=7}}

== Gallery ==
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File:Слуцкі летапіс 3 л.34об. – л.35.jpg|л.34об. – л.35
File:Слуцкі летапіс 1 л.35об. – л.36.jpg|л.35об. – л.36
File:Слуцкі летапіс 2 л.50об. – л.51.jpg|л.50об. – л.51, containing the ''[[Praise to Vytautas]]''{{'}} opening
</gallery>

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
=== Critical editions ===
* {{Cite book |editor-last1=Shakhmatov |editor-first1=Aleksey Aleksandrovich |editor-last2=Ptaszycki |editor-first2=Stanisław |date=1907 |volume=17 |script-title=ru: Западнорусские летописи |title=Zapadnorusskie letopisi |trans-title=Western Rus' Chronicles |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Полное_собрание_русских_летописей_17_РГБ.pdf&page=59 |pages=59–78 |series=[[Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles|Complete Collection of Rus' Chronicles (PSRL)]] |location=Saint Petersburg |publisher=Typography of Aleksandrov |language=be, ru, uk}} (in Volume 32 and 35 rebranded ''[[Lithuanian Chronicles|Belarusian-Lithuanian Chronicles]]''). The text of the ''Slutsk Chronicle'' is printed on columns 85–124; pages 59–78.
* {{Cite book |editor-last=Ulashchik |editor-first=N.N. |editor-link=Mikałaj Ułaščyk |date=1980c |title=Bilorusjko-lytovsjki litopysy: Slucjkyj litopys |trans-title=The Belarusian–Lithuanian Chronicles: The Slutsk Chronicle |script-title=uk: Білорусько-литовські літописи: Слуцький літопис |series=[[Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles|Complete Collection of Rus' Chronicles (PSRL)]] |volume=35 |url=http://litopys.org.ua/psrl3235/lytov17.htm |location=Moscow |publisher=[[Nauka (publisher)|Nauka]] / [[Izbornyk]] |pages=68–84 |access-date=21 August 2025 |language=be}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111104214614/http://starbel.narod.ru/razn/p068.djvu Слуцкая летопись. Виленская летопись. Летопись Археологического общества] // Гісторыя Беларусі IX—XVIII стагоддзяў. Першакрыніцы.

=== Literature ===
* {{Cite book |editor-last=Ulashchik |editor-first=N.N. |editor-link=Mikałaj Ułaščyk |date=1980b |chapter=Слуцкая летопись (иначе Уваровская) (опис) |trans-chapter=Slutsk Chronicle (alias Uvarov) (description) |title=Bilorusjko-lytovsjki litopysy |trans-title=The Belarusian–Lithuanian Chronicles |script-title=uk: Білорусько-литовські літописи |series=[[Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles|Complete Collection of Rus' Chronicles (PSRL)]] |volume=35 |chapter-url=http://litopys.org.ua/psrl3235/lytov14.htm#slutsk |location=Moscow |publisher=[[Nauka (publisher)|Nauka]] / [[Izbornyk]] |pages=7 |access-date=8 August 2025 |language=ru |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250808215827/http://litopys.org.ua/psrl3235/lytov14.htm |archive-date=8 August 2025 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Mytsyk |first=Yuri Andriyovych |title=Слуцький літопис |trans-title=Slutsk Chronicle |url=http://www.history.org.ua/?termin=Slutskyj_litopys |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine]] |date=2010 |volume=9 |page=664 |publisher=[[Institute of History of Ukraine]] |location=[[Kyiv]] |language=uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250822081916/http://resource.history.org.ua/cgi-bin/eiu/history.exe?&I21DBN=EIU&P21DBN=EIU&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=eiu_all&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=TRN=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=Slutskyj_litopys |archive-date=22 August 2025 |access-date=22 August 2025 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal |last=Slipushko |first=Oksana |title=Lietuvos ir Rusios kronikos mąstymo paradigma vėlyvaisiais viduramžiais / Lithuanian-Ruthenian Chronicle Paradigm of Thinking in the Late Middle Ages |journal=LOGOS |volume=113 |pages=18–25 |date=2022 |doi=10.24101/logos.2022.69 |doi-access=free}}
* {{ill|Feoktyst Sushytsky|uk|Сушицький Феоктист Петрович|lt=Sushytsky, Feoktyst (Teoktyst) Petrovych}}, Західно-руські літописи як памятки літератури [Western Rus' chronicles as monuments of literature]. Кiev, 1921. Chapter 1. (in Ukrainian).
* Chamyarytskyi V. A., Беларускія летапісы як помнікі літаратуры [Belarusian chronicles as monuments of literature]. Minsk, 1969. (in Belarusian).
* [http://leksika.com.ua/15781012/legal/slutskiy_litopis Слуцький літопис Slutsk Chronicle] // ''Legal Encyclopedia'' : [in 6 vols.] / ed. col.: Yu. S. Shemshuchenko (res. ed.) [et al.]. Kyiv: Ukrainian Encyclopedia named after M. P. Bazhan, 2003. Vol. 5: P — P. 736 p. ISBN 966-7492-05-2. (in Ukrainian).
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