Correlation of copies
Nicholas Zharkikh
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Looking at the above table, it is easy to see that we are dealing with the same redaction of the text in two versions. A defining feature of the "Smolensk" variant is the placement of the block of Smolensk towns in front of the block of Ryazan towns; the defining feature of the "Ryazan" variant is the placement of the Ryazan block before the Smolensk block.
Stemma copies of the "List of Rus’ towns"
Therefore, the best and closest to the protograph should be considered the text of N1LMI. It (with the two additions mentioned above) will be the subject of further studies.
Stemma allows us to put forward two more assumptions. Looking at the rapid deterioration of the text in the later copies, we can assume that the N1LMI list was relatively close to the time of the compilation of the protograph itself, which can be put at 2 quarter 15th century.
Further, we see that the copies of the SRG in the Moscow annals are clearly later than the copies in the Novgorod annals – by at least three quarters of a century. I think that SRG entered the Moscow writing system in its finished form from Novgorod the Great.
I emphasize once again – such conclusions can be drawn from the stemma itself, without considering the content of the SRG.