Новгородская первая летопись
It is not clear exactly when the monastery was established. The first written reference in the Novgorod First Chronicle states that in 1327 Moses the archbishop erected a church in honour of the Nativity of Our Lady on the Tithe. An extract from the official translation of the chronicle by Mitchell "et. al." is given below in comparison with the original text in the Old Novgorod dialect of Old East Slavic: