Khlebnikov Codex

[3] It is named after one of its previous owners, Pyotr Khlebnikov [ru] (Russian: Пётр Хлебников), a merchant from Kolomna, Russia.

3661 type dated to 1560 by Edmund Laucevičius [lt] (1967), leading Kloss to the conclusion that 'the main part of the manuscript was written in the 1560s'.

[7] The Khlebnikov Codex or a closely related copy may have been present or known in the city of Kiev in the early 1620s, because marginalia in chapter four of Palinodia (1621), which may or may not have been added by author Zacharias Kopystensky himself, mentions a "chronicle of Nestor".

in the opening lines of the Khlebnikov Codex is known to be a later interpolation because it is not found in any of the other five main textual versions of the Primary Chronicle (PVL), and therefore is not evidence of Nestorian authorship,[8] the Khlebnikov Codex is the oldest-known extant manuscript to claim that a person named "Nestor" wrote it.

[16] The Khlebnikov text of the PVL is closely related to the older Hypatian Codex (c. 1425),[14] with whom it shares a common ancestor.

[13] While the 1843, 1908 and 1962 editions of the GVC published in the Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles (PSRL) and the 1871 Archaeographical Commission edition were still primarily based on the Hypatian text and only included Khlebnikov for variant readings, A. Klevanov's 1871 Russian paraphrase was the first work to take the Khlebnikov text as the foundation for reconstructing the GVC.