, but
В and
C record the spelling
достойно, which yields the correct 13-syllable line. Since this discrepancy in orthography is a regular one it is not recorded as a variant in the footnotes.
The letter ъ (jer) is omitted when it occurs at the end of a word. Titlos are expanded according to spelling found elsewhere in C. Superscript letters are brought down into the line. In cases where a final soft consonant is superscript, the letter ъ (jer») has been supplied. In accordance with the principles of modem word-division prefixes have been printed as part of the following word, whether or not they are written separately in one or all of the manuscripts. Thus, съ сечено ) съсечено, въскоре ) въскоре, въ ниде ) въниде. Where the particles же and ли are written in C as part of the preceding word, they are printed separately in the present edition. As a consequence of this separation the letter ь has been supplied for words ending in a soft consonant on the basis of examples to hand elsewhere in the manuscript where the same words are written separately, e.g. колже ) кольже, сутже ) сутьже. удобже ) удобьже,вонже ) во нь же,нанже ) на нь же,занже ) за нь же,плотже ) плотьже,естже ) естьже,естли ) есть ли. Where in С the particle ся is prepositive to the verb and has been agglutinated to the preceding word, it has been printed separately, e.g. похотсяраждает ) похоть ся раждает. In the combinations донели/донеле же, дондеже. занеже. идеже,поне же, ни же, та же the element же has been regarded by the editors as a particle and printed separately, although it is possible that in 17th-century texts it was already considered a component part of the word. The conjunction воеже is printed as one word. Relative pronouns with the particle же are normally written as one word in the three manuscripts. The present edition retains this convention for the four short pronouns иже, еже, яже. and юже; longer pronouns are separated into two words, e.g. его же. Variants between the three manuscripts as to whether the particles же, ли and ся are written as part of the preceding word or separately are not footnoted.
Superscript signs and accents are not reproduced, with the following exceptions: the pronoun й is distinguished from the conjunction и by an acute accent in the printed edition, as it is in the manuscripts; the superscript jer (paerok) has been printed as an italicised jer after prefixes that are followed by a stem beginning with a vowel, e.g. об’яти ) объяти, от'ити ) отъити