These are the edition's working notes, published as they were written. They record, work by work, where Migne's plate is defective or the reading uncertain: the printed form, what the English does with it, and why. They are not a groomed apparatus. Where a note argues with itself, withdraws an earlier decision, or leaves a question open, that is the record of how the reading was actually reached, and it is left standing — a conjecture that is visible can be checked, and one that has been tidied away cannot.
The English never silently repairs the page. A construable but wrong reading is rendered literally and the conjecture is recorded here, never applied to the text. How the English is produced and checked →
Greek source: src/pg-greek-ocr/antiochus-epistula-ad-eustathium/ (our OCR of the plate — this work has no Calfa text; see ANTIOCHUS-START.md). Twin: src/pg-latin/… (Migne cols 1422, 1423, 1426, 1427 + the recovered catch-up block). Third witness: src/pg-greek-scan/….
[lat:] markers — TWO fired, both plate-verified
- The number of chapters — 130 (Greek) vs 150 (Latin), and it is in the TITLE as well as the body. Greek:
ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΑ ΡΛʹin the title block andεἰς ἑκατὸν τριάκοντα κεφάλαιαin the body (spelled out in words, so not an OCR-fragile letter-numeral, and corroborated by the third witness). Latin: capitula 150 in the title, centum quinquaginta … capita in the body — consistently 150 in both places. The Greek is almost certainly right: the Pandectes is transmitted in 130 chapters. English follows the printed Greek (rule 4); the marker records the Latin. Cols 1422 (title) and 1423. - The Fathers' age — "fifty and sixty" (Greek) vs "a hundred … and fifty-six" (Latin). Greek:
ὑπερβεβηκότες ἀπὸ πεντήκοντα καὶ ἑξήκοντα ἐτῶν. Latin col 1423: nonnulli ipsorum centum excesserunt annos et quinquaginta sex. Plate-verified by eye at 400 dpi (raw/pg089/lat1423-check.png) — this is not OCR noise; it is printed. A material divergence about the same fact, and neither column is obviously corrupt.
Both fired only after the Pattern 16 numeral discipline: spelled-out Greek numerals, third-witness corroboration, and a plate look at the Latin.
[var:] — one
- Acts 14:22. The text reads
εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν; the received text hasτοῦ Θεοῦ. Migne footnotes it "Act. XIV, 21" (older versification). Rendered as printed per the scripture rule — not conformed to "the kingdom of God".
Plate readings kept, not emended
ὑπερμεμενηκέναι(1421) where one expects ὑπο-. Our reading and the third witness both show-περ-, so the plate prints it. Rendered "endured".Παλαστίνῃ(1425) for Παλαιστίνῃ. Both readings agree; Migne's spelling. Rendered "Palestine".ἐστείλας/ἔστειλα(1421) — accentuation differs between our reading and the witness at both occurrences. Sense is unaffected; noted for the read-through.
Renderings that a reader may query
τὸ ἅγιον κρανίον→ "the holy Skull". Literal; it denotes the Golgotha shrine (the Place of the Skull). Left literal per Tier-2 rather than glossed to "Calvary", which would import a Latin name the Greek does not use.ἡ μήτηρ τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν→ "the mother of the churches", i.e. Hagia Sion. Not glossed inline.Ἰσμαηλῖται(1424) andΣαρακηνοί(1425) are kept distinct — "Ishmaelites" and "Saracens". The letter uses both, and harmonizing them would erase a datum about how the author names the attackers.τὰ σκηνώματα→ "the tabernacles", of the martyrs' bodies. Literal.
Genre note
Epistolary narrative is a NEW genre for the register rulebook — neither chronicle, dialogue, homily, nor lemma-and-gloss. EN/Greek came out at 1.416× (1,178 → 1,668), between chronicle 1.25× and homily 1.49×, which fits: plain narrative with two elevated passages (the catalogue of the Fathers' virtues, and the closing doxology). Per Q4 an anchor is mandatory for a new genre — chunk 0000 should be registered as the epistolary anchor if more letters follow.