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 →
- col 1427C — printed tot orpus ejus litteris nigris et rubeis plenum. Intended corpus. Rendered "his whole body full of black and red letters." Dropped initial c in the plate.
- col 1427D — printed cujus palchritudinem et fulgorem sol et luna mirantur. Intended pulchritudinem. Rendered "beauty."
- col 1427B — Migne prints [asperis] verbis et verberibus affectum with the editor's own bracketed supplement. Rendered "with [harsh] words and with lashes," bracket preserved as an editorial mark, not a column anchor.
- col 1429A — Migne prints pro illis [oraret], again an editorial bracketed supplement. Rendered "[was praying] for them," bracket preserved.
- col 1429D — the quotation Vos me crucifigitis, gens, tota die is attributed to Malachi; no such verse stands in Malachi (cf. Isa. LII, 5 / Mal. III, 8-9 for the sense). Translated as printed, attribution left as Migne has it.
- col 1428A — seniores cum clericis legis where the parallel later at 1429D also reads clerici legis. Likely scribis; rendered literally "the clerks of the law" in both places for consistency.