The author of the article expounds the results of the study dealing with some textual problems referring to the XIV-th century edifying didactic prose. He analyzes the classification of the most common mistakes in the didactic prose of the XIV-th century, translated and published in Cyrillic. The reasons for making mistakes while shifting texts from Arabic into Cyrillic are identified by the author. Designing on the premise of primary sources, the author offers the correct variants. In a nutshell, the author presents the five most repeated reasons for the possible mistakes made during preparation for the publication of medieval texts, including incorrect reading of the names of localities and their own names, lack of Arabic language, etc.
textology, prosaic edifying literature, manuscript, correction, textologist, editor, mistakes
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