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Stint A, 2026-09-16. Every column in the work (0011B–0020C) was read at the plate on Gallica bpt6k5505319w f6–f10 at native resolution, corner numbers first; letter-level calls were checked against the archive.org copy (patrologiaecurs04migngoog, PDF pp. 13–15) as a second witness. Plate reads: data/briefs/PL113L-PLATE-READS-A.json. Pending patches: data/briefs/PL113L-PENDING-TEI-PATCHES-A.md.

No [sic:], [var:], [cj:], [ed:] or [d:] markers were fired in this work.

Plate divergences from our twin (English renders the plate; patches filed)

• 0017C poena → plate poeta. Our twin: poena etiam pro illo aevo non infelix ("a punishment, too, not unhappy for that age", which does not construe). Gallica f9 prints poeta with a worn t; the archive copy prints poeta cleanly. Two witnesses agree. English: "a poet, too, not unsuccessful for that age." Walafrid was a known poet, which fits.
• 0016D petulantiz → plate petulantia. Gallica f8's final sort is worn into a z-like shape (it may be what the digitizer transcribed); the archive copy prints petulantia. cleanly. The sentence needs a nominative subject for decebat, and petulantia is one. Rendered "petulance". No [sic:]: the two witnesses split, the worn copy being Gallica's (same class as the 8956 worn sorts in CLAUDE.md).
• 0018D clucidans → plate elucidans. Sixtus's quotation, aperiens et clucidans litterae sensum. Gallica f9 reads c (a worn e with its crossbar gone); the archive copy prints elucidans cleanly. Rendered "elucidating". No [sic:], same reasoning as above.
• 0019A nonnulis → plate nonnullis. Both witnesses print nonnullis. Rendered "by some".
• 0020A in suis consiliis. Navarrus. → plate in suis consiliis Navarrus. Both witnesses print NO full stop after consiliis. With our twin's stop, Navarrus. stands alone as a one-word sentence. The English follows the plate: "as Navarrus testifies in his counsels." (Martín de Azpilcueta, "Doctor Navarrus", Consilia.)
• 0019A the two distichs are LINEATED on the plate (set in smaller type, indented, on lines of their own), in both witnesses. Our twin runs the first line of each distich onto the prose line (distichon: Cui veteris… / epitaphium Hierophanta…). The English keeps the twin's line structure so that the parallel columns stay aligned. The lineation is filed as a pending patch and not rendered separately. Pattern 8a says the verse should be lineated, and once the patch lands, splitting those two lines in the English is a one-line edit.
• After epitaphium Gallica shows a mid-dot, and the archive shows nothing. Our twin prints no mark there. The mark is uncertain (it may be a speck), so none was supplied: "And the epitaph is closed with this distich Hence the hierophant…".

Readings kept as printed

• 0014B Greek ἔσθλα καὶ ὕργα. The plate was read at 6× native. ἔσθλα has a smooth breathing and an acute on the epsilon, as in our twin. ὕργα has a rough breathing and an acute on the upsilon, also as in our twin. καὶ is set with the ϰ kappa variant. The accent on its iota is too worn to tell grave from acute, so our twin's grave stands. The phrase is not good Greek. It seems to echo Homer's Egyptian drugs, ἐσθλὰ … λυγρά (Od. 4.230), "good and baneful", and the Latin gloss commoda et incommoda that follows supports that reading. ὕργα is no Greek word. It is carried verbatim, and the text itself glosses it. No marker, because Greek is not rendered.
• 0017C Greek κατ' ἕξοχὴν. The plate has an acute on the epsilon and a grave on the eta. The breathing is too small and worn to call smooth or rough with confidence, even at 8×. The correct form is ἐξοχήν, with a smooth breathing. Our twin's rough breathing is carried unchanged. No patch is proposed on a mark this doubtful.
• 0018B Utraque vera glossa. Both witnesses print vera, which is probably meant for vero ("but each gloss"). vera is a real word and fits its slot, so it was rendered literally: "Each true gloss". No [cj:]: the English asserts nothing false.
• 0017D qui ipso Strabo posterior est aetate. Both witnesses print ipso Strabo, not Strabone. A case slip with no English exponent (Pattern 9 territory). Rendered "later in age than Strabus himself".
• 0013B aliorum piorum consensui praeferre audet et propterea submittunt se. There is no punctuation between audet and et, and the verb changes from singular to plural. The plate was confirmed on f7. Rendered as printed, with no mark supplied.
• 0020B a D. Francisco Luca Burgensi. The corrector of the Roman Bible is Franciscus Lucas Brugensis (of Bruges). The plate prints Burgensi, which reads as "of Burgos" in a preface that has just used Burgensis for Paul of Burgos. Rendered "Francis Lucas Burgensis" as printed.
• 0015B (inquit in verbo Glossa ordinaria ),. The space before the closing parenthesis comes from the transform. The plate sets ordinaria),. It was kept as it is in our twin, since whitespace is not a mark.
• 0014B stray mark after solebant. Gallica f7 shows a small raised tick before the comma. It is a speck and not a semicolon. Our twin's comma stands.
• Name forms. WALAFRIDUS STRABUS (in small caps on the plate) became "WALAFRID STRABUS". Strabus is kept rather than the usual "Strabo", because the passage explains the surname as "squint-eyed" (ab oculorum vitio). Strabone monacho Anglo became "Strabo, the English monk". Lypomannus was kept as printed. Mathiae Tornigi (0016D) and Matthaeus Dornick, seu Tornigus (0020A) became "Mathias Tornigus" and "Matthew Dornick, or Tornigus", following the plate's two spellings.
• 0013A–C examinantes et exanimantes. A pun ("examining and deadening"). Rendered "sifting and stifling" to keep the play. exanimo means to deprive of breath.
• 0016A non possumus nobis persuadere, ordinem … fuisse … observatum, sed … neglectum. The sed clause stands grammatically under persuadere, so the printed sentence can be read as "we cannot persuade ourselves that it was neglected". The sense plainly intended is "we are persuaded that it was neglected". The English keeps the Latin's shape ("…had been observed by the workmen, but, the press hurrying…, for the most part neglected") and adds no negation or verb of its own.

Scripture quotations checked (7a″ list), against sources/vulgate/clementine-flat.txt

No divergences found; no [var:].

Vocabulary

Postilla → the Postill (also "postill" for the genre in Glossarum et Postillarum auctoribus, "Postills"); postillatores → postillators; Postillator → the Postillator; Additionum → the Additions; Replicas / replicis → the Replies; sacra/divina Scriptura → Holy/divine Scripture (Pattern 3 for sacra). Burgensis for Paul of Burgos is kept as a name ("the venerable Burgensis"). Every term held.

Merge, 2026-09-16

• TEI patches applied (data/tei-patches/8975.json, re-chunked, verify OK): petulantiz→petulantia @0016D, poena→poeta @0017C, nonnulis→nonnullis @0019A, the stop after consiliis removed @0020A, and clucidans→elucidans @0018C–D, APPLIED at merge: Gallica's sort is a worn e (the bar gone), not a c, and the archive prints e clean, so both witnesses point to e. No marker was ever fired; the English already read "elucidating".
• ⚑ FOR WILSON — verse lineation @0019A, not resolved at merge. Both witnesses set each distich (Cui veteris … / Cognomen …; Hierophanta … / Et Brabantiaco …) on lines of its own. Our TEI already encodes them as <l> lines, but the chunker's <l> convention (scripts/lib/chunk-core.mjs: </l> → line break, <l> → nothing) breaks only AFTER each verse line, so the first line of each distich runs on from the preceding prose — the same rendering shipped works carry (e.g. 11057 @0370A). Matching the plate needs a chunker change (a break before the first <l> of a run), which would also re-flow verse in shipped works on their next rebuild. Not invented here. Pattern 8a says lineate where Migne lineates; this is the one place the machinery falls short of it. English mirrors the Latin line structure.