, which is to give the title for the first poem and numbers for the succeeding ones. In A the poems are not usually grouped under one title but scattered throughout the manuscript, and therefore carry titles rather than numbers. It was not felt necessary to indicate this discrepancy except where an actual change of title has occurred.
The list of contents ( Оглавление’) is printed as it occurs in C, but because, through the process of accretion and rearrangement, it differs so widely from the corresponding sections in A and В it was decided not to indicate variants.
The order in which information is presented in the footnotes is as follows: 1. the place in C to which attention is being drawn; 2. the manuscript where the variant occurs; 3. the nature of the variant, or other information. Unless otherwise indicated, the footnote refers to the single word which immediately precedes the reference number, and that word is not repeated in the footnote. If the footnote refers to the two words immediately preceding the reference number, both words are quoted in the footnote. If the footnote refers to a passage of more than two words the reference number is placed immediately after the last word, and the first and last words of the passage are quoted in the footnote separated by three dots. In the latter case line numbers are given where there might be a doubt as to the length of the passage. Editorial information in the footnotes is set in italics. The following abbreviations have been adopted: ins. = inserted ; del. = deleted ; om. = omitted ; add. = added; corr. = corrected; illeg. = illegible; marg. = fore-edge margin; gut. marg. = guttermargin; p . = page ; fol. = folio ; l. = line; syll. = syllable.
The first volume of the printed edition contains all the material in the base copy C from the title-page to the end of the section of poems under the letter D (fol. 146>v). It is anticipated that vol. 2 will contain the poems from the beginning of the letter E (fol. 147) to ʻПочитание 2‘ (fol. 388>v), and that vol. 3 will contain the poems from ’Прав никто же’ (fol. 388>v) to the end of the MS (fol 617>v). A number of items occur in one or both of A and В but not in C. These will appear in a Supplement at the end of vol. 3.
Anthony Hippisley
Lydia Sazonova