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^{page 454 note 2} Visramiani: the story of the loves of Vis and Ramin, a romance of ancient Persia. Translated from the Georgian version by Oliver Wardrop (Oriental Translation Fund, N.S., xxin), London, 1914.

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^{page 456 note 2} Sak'art'velos sakhelmdsip'o muzeumis dzvel khelnadser'a satsavebis gzamkvlevi, Tiflis, 1951, pp. 59, 139, 168, 214 (this is a concise, single volume guide); Sak'art'velos sakhelmdsip'o muzeumis k'art'ul khelnadsert'a aghdseriloba… (H kolek'tsia)—; Description des manuscrits georgiens du Musée d' état de Géorgie… (collection H), vols. I-VI, Tiflis, 1946–53 (containing description of the MSS in the former Historical and Ethnographie Society's collection); ditto, A kolek'tsia, vol. IV, Tiflis, 1954 (being a continuation of the three-volume Opisanie rukopisey Tserkovnogo Muzeya, compiled by T'. Zhordania and M. G. Janashvili, Tiflis, 1902–8). See further Qubaneishvili, K'restomat'ia, II, p. 1.

^{page 456 note 3} Description des manuscrits géorgiens … (collection H), iv, 109.

^{page 457 note 1} Dchidchinadze and Mr. Stevenson following him make two chapters of this section, but in the MSS it all forms the second episode in the cycle.

^{page 458 note 1} Owing to the faulty numbering mentioned in the preceding note, this forms chapter 4 of the English translation. The discrepancy in numbering continues up to chapter 11 of the English translation, vhich contains chapters 10 and 11 of tho text. Chapter 11 in the MSS consists entirely of ‘The story of the revenge’.

^{page 460 note 1} Mr. Stevenson, following Dchidchinadze, takes Raīb for a Nogai Tatar instead of a Nubian, as in the MSS, and devotes a learned note to the question (p. 169, n. 2). As Nogais, compared with Nubians, have yellowish rather than black faces, Mr, Stevenson renders the phrase ‘his body was quite black’ (as the text has it) with: ‘his face had been blackened’. This rendering gives the impression that Raīb was very thorough-going in his mourning.

^{page 462 note 1} Dchidchinadze's edition of 1896 has not been available to us.

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^{page 462 note 3} Mijatchvuli Amirani [Amiran bound], Tiflis, 1947, pp. 300, 408. This important book was kindly made available by the author himself.

^{page 463 note 1} Lit.: ‘two hundred to three hundred pood rocks’.

^{page 464 note 1} Chik'ovani, Amiran bound, pp. 57–78, 437.

^{page 464 note 2} Amiran-Darejaniani, introduction, pp. xiv-xv, xxi-xxii.

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