According to us, both beginning the slur only just from the 2nd beat of the bar and the gap at the transition between the bars look like accidental inaccuracies that are probably related to the layout. In FE, and most probably also in [A], the b-c1 semiquavers opening the passage are written on the bottom stave, which hampers the placement of the beginning of the slur (it was considered an inaccuracy already in EE). In turn, the division of the slur could have resulted from, e.g. the transition into a new line. In the main text, we give a slur modelled after the unequivocal slur in analogous bars 434-435. The absence of slurs in GE3 must be regarded as a mistake – it was probably an oversight or an unfinished revision.
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issues: EE revisions, Errors in GE
notation: Slurs