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[159]roan lecapen took precedence over nstante 7 ti beeen 20 ay 921 and april 922for chrisher lecapen was crowned on 20 ay 921 not by roan but by nstante 7（theophnt398），while later on the younr lecapeni were crowned by roan hiself（ibid409）；on the other hand，the novel of april 922（the protisis novel which is probably to be dated this year，cfp273，n1 below）is already the na of the eperors roan，nstante and chrisherchrisher took precedence of nstante ti after april 922 and before 25 deceber 924 when the younr lecapeni were crowned becae we have the evidence of o chrybulls issued the na of the eperors roan，chrisher and nstante（zepos，j i，204;dolr，reg593 and 594;nseently both these docunts should be dated to the period beeen april 922 and 25 deceber 924）chrisher&r;s precedence over nstante was not nnected with the arria of his daughter to the bulgarian tzar peter 927 as theophnt414 says（followed by runcian，roan lecapen 67）。

[160]grul，reg669

[161]zepos，j 1，209

[162]zepos，j 1，198 ff；dolr，reg595lerle，&l;histoire agraire&r;219，1，265 ff，has recently raised the estion of the textual tradition of this and other novels designed to protect sall property owners，and puts forward the view that these novels-their text，their datg，and their authorship-deand serio rensideration a note which（as lerle rrectly rearks）has not been sufficiently taken to aount by scholars，za插ria had already observed that the text as we possess it shows signs of havg been piled fro extracts o