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Crux’s records of Czech poetry in SOA T, A 7 (c. 1455–1460) form the textual canon of Old Czech secular lyric poetry. This study focuses on the Old Czech compositions, whose overriding thematic concern is the problem of love. A certain heterogeneity in the collection reinforces the idea that it was written in several phases and, apparently, on the basis of various written mod¬els of unknown provenance; some of the poems may even be written down from memory. The absence of musical notation suggests that Crux’s interest was lit¬erary. Crux wrote variant wordings above some words (and, occasionally and exceptionally, directly into the line of the text it¬self). Previous editorial work has moved these variants to the textual appara¬tus. It is not possible to generalise about the function of these variant wordings. Some of them were explanatory notes, some paratextual commentaries (as in the case of the song Viklefice), some reflected the wording of another textual variant (as in the case of the composition with the incipit Střěz sě toho každý člověk), or they may reflect a momentary idea. They preserve Crux’s dialogue with the text.