, от’яша ) отъяша, из’ити ) изъити, из’яти ) изъяти, из’явил ) изъявил, необ’емлем ) необъемлем. Literal numbers are rendered by Arabic numerals.
The manuscripts are not consistent in the use of capitals, nor is it always clear whether a letter is capitalised, and so with regard to nominasacra the editors have with some modifications opted for the conventions obtaining in Russia before 1917. Capitals are used for the three persons of the Trinity and for the Mother of God, as well as for all names, attributes and hypostases of God, personal pronouns referring to God, and the adjectives Святый and Божественный, as well as their variants with the prefix Пре-, when they refer to any of the persons of the Trinity. Other capitalised nominasacra include the Church as an institution, the Sacraments, and the Holy Scriptures.
Punctuation follows that of the copies В and C, which are broadly similar (A is very lightly punctuated), but does not reproduce it at all points. The principle which the editors have followed is to use marks of punctuation in order to clarify meaning, but not to impose it. This has sometimes required minimal punctuation, especially where there are two varying but equally valid readings. Direct speech is introduced with a capital letter, but is not enclosed within quotation marks.
The text of C is reproduced even when it contains a manifest error by the copyist, e.g. line 5 of the poem Голубь евхаристический’: И ныне в неких местех той остаем (for остает). When this occurs the correct form is seen in the variant reading in A and/or B. The following variants between the texts of C and the other two manuscripts are indicated in footnotes: lexical, grammatical and orthographic variants, corrections to the text (deletions, additions, omissions, insertions, and transpositions), marginalia, and editorial corrections by Sil'vestr Medvedev carried out at any stage in the creation of the work. All variants between C (the final text) and the autograph manuscript A are recorded except the list of contents ("Оглавление», see below). As regards the intermediate copy B, orthographic variants are treated by the editors according to the general rule that where C differs either from A or from both A and B, the variant is recoreded in a footnote, but that where C differs from В but not from A or, in other words, where В gives a variant spelling that is subsequently restored in C, this is not footnoted. Thus, orthographic variants in В that differ from both A and C, where