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The Hypatian Codex was discovered at the Ipatiev Monastery of Kostroma , Russia , by the Russian historian Nikolay Karamzin . The Hypatian manuscript dates back to the 15th century, but it incorporates much precious information from the lost 12th-century Kiev an and 13th-century Halych ian chronicles. The language of this work is Old Church Slavonic with many East Slavisms . Since 1810 , the codex has been preserved in the Russian National Library , St Petersburg .