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The first part of the manuscript may have been retyped, as suggested by markings that indicate the end of each typescript page and the words “six signatures” inscribed on page 200. Let us note that the following 60 pages (their total number is 260) account for the greater part of the text. In contrast to the clear and bold penmanship of the first 200 pages, these are written in a small and crabbed hand. This has been a serious impediment to the publishers, as well as the fact that there were many words with missing letters. Maria and Alexander Afanasyev and Lyubov Pisarkova, who undertook to prepare the manuscript for the press, have also provided it with a
otations and indices of proper and geographical names.The compilers thank Alexander Afanasyev for his painstaking effort on editing the manuscript.