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 →
Garbled or irregular printed readings in Migne (PL 104), rendered literally in the English per the register rules, and logged here.
0191B (chunk 0, ch. VI)
- Printed: Scritura exsequitur
- Note: Misprint for Scriptura. Rendered "Scripture." No sense is affected.
0193A (chunk 1, ch. IX)
- Printed: sicut Paulas ait
- Note: Misprint for Paulus. Rendered "as Paul says."
0198A (chunk 1, ch. XIII)
- Printed: sicut et beato Petro summus pastor praecibit dicens
- Note: praecibit is a misprint for praecepit ("charged, commanded"); the form as printed is not Latin. Rendered "charged." Alternatively praeivit ("went before") could be conjectured, but praecepit fits the direct command that follows (Pasce agnos meos).
0192B (chunk 1, ch. VIII) — not an error, flagged for the read-through
- Printed: vir cum quo est Deus in visione qua erudivit eum mater sua
- Note: Agobard's compressed allusion to Prov. 31 (Lemuel and his mother). Rendered literally; the referent is left implicit as Migne prints it.
Column-sequence irregularities (chunk 1) — verified against the Latin, not errors
Chunk 1's anchor run is 0192B, 0193A, 0194A, 0195A, 0195B, 0195C, 0196A, 0196B, 0196C, 0197A, 0197B, 0198A. The single-anchor jumps at 0193A → 0194A → 0195A (no B/C/D for cols 193–194) reflect Migne's plates, where those columns are largely occupied by the editor's notes. Reproduced verbatim in order; no anchors invented to fill the gaps. Same for chunk 2, where 0199A is followed directly by 0200A.
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Blind Opus read of the Latin/English pair for sense-reversing defects (one word or one letter asserting the opposite of what the context requires). 1 site(s). Migne's defects are recorded here and rendered literally in the English; our own errors were fixed in place. Full context: data/sweeps/corpus-polarity/REPORT.md.
0191B — dropped-non (migne, high confidence)
Printed: sed de illis locis ubi in illam ordinatam narrationem gestorum Scritura exsequitur, sed tantum diversis hujusmodi nominibus Christum et Ecclesiam indicat
Conjecture: ubi non ordinatam narrationem gestorum Scriptura exsequitur, sed tantum diversis hujusmodi nominibus Christum et Ecclesiam indicat (a negative — nihil / non — lost before the first clause; the correlative 'sed tantum' requires it)
The whole sentence is a three-member exclusion: 'Haec multiplicia nomina sponsi et sponsae, Christi et Ecclesiae, NON de aliquibus gestis historicis (sicut est, cum Scriptura de Sara, Rebecca, Rachel loquitur) ... NEC de eo locutionis genere ... assumpta sunt; sed de illis locis ubi ...'. The third member must name places where Scripture is NOT pursuing a narrative of deeds at all but only naming Christ and the Church — as printed it says the names come from where Scripture DOES carry through the ordered narration of deeds, i.e. exactly the historical-deeds source the same sentence has just excluded. The adversative 'sed tantum ... indicat' is unintelligible without a preceding negative. Our English silently repairs the broken pair by translating the second 'sed' as 'yet' ('carries through ... yet indicates'), producing a smooth sentence that still asserts the opposite of the sentence's own premise.