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 →
Translated 2026-08-19, one translator, 5 chunks (4,896 Latin words), on Opus. Revised the same day after a plate read of p. 367 restored eight words the digitization had dropped at 0724D — see §1 and §4. verify-english.mjs clean: columns, notes and sections aligned, no duplicate paragraphs.
Apparatus: 8 [var:] · 2 [sic:] · 3 [cj:] · 0 [d:] · 0 [ed:] · 0 [nt:] · 103 [n:] (9 / 27 / 21 / 21 / 25, exact parity with the Latin twins). Structure: CAPUT PRIMUM → CAPUT XIII, all thirteen heads present, in order. Guillemets: ZERO in either language — this book sets its lemmata in italics, like Ruth (8968), not in guillemets like Tobit (8970) and Esther (8948). Question marks: ZERO in the Latin, zero in the English. Em-dashes: zero.
Conventions: Ruth's §1 governs unchanged (VERS. n.-- verbatim; the lemma Englished; a fragmentary lemma rendered as the phrase it stands for; the sigla ride as ordinary [n:] notes, unanglicized, with Migne's own internal spacing — (BEDA, ubi supra. ), (BED. in Esdram. )). Tobit's §1(b) governs the abridgment formula: usque ad → as far as, 61 occurrences here — the heaviest in the Glossa block so far — and no verb was supplied to any of them. Nothing was re-opened.
§1 · PLATE STATUS
Spot-checked at 300 dpi before translation, full width: p. 362 (cols 713/714) and p. 365 (cols 719/720). No foot-of-page apparatus on either. p. 367 (cols 723/724) was then read after translation, on the strength of the crux below, and carries none either. So no [cn:] is expected in this work and none was injected, and no conjecture of Migne's was available to settle anything below. Cols 715–718, 721–722 and 725–726 remain unread.
⭐ The p. 367 read paid for itself and is the reason this file was revised: it showed that 0724D's unconstruable sentence was not Migne's at all but a whole line lost by the digitization, and it corrected coangustati to coangustatis six lines below (§4).
⚑ Sites that a further plate read would still settle outright: 0721D peregrim and 0721C Christ (§3, col. 721, unread), and 0714D comparatio and 0716D benedicitur (§4).
§2 · [var: …] — MIGNE'S SCRIPTURE AGAINST THE CLEMENTINE (8 markers)
All eight collated against sources/vulgate/clementine-flat.txt. Migne is rendered in every case; the marker is a note beside the faithful rendering, never a replacement.
| col | Migne prints | Clementine | why it is material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0718C | Et sint vobis vices per noctem et diem (Neh 4:22) | et sint nobis vices … ad operandum | first person → second: the watch is Nehemias's own in the Vulgate, an order given to others here |
| 0719B | Quia statuit Dominus eos qui Evangelium annuntiant (I Cor 9:14) | Ita et Dominus ordinavit iis qui Evangelium annuntiant | different verb and a different construction (acc. + inf. for dative) |
| 0719D | Mensis Eliud (Neh 6:15) | mensis Elul | a different name; the gloss's own next words (qui secundum Hebraeos sextus est) fit Elul |
| 0721C | Christi bonus odor sumus Deo in omni loco (II Cor 2:15) | … Deo in iis qui salvi fiunt, et in his qui pereunt | the qualifying clause is replaced outright |
| 0721D | incolae sumus in terra, et peregrim sicut patres nostri (Psal 38:13) | advena ego sum apud te, et peregrinus sicut omnes patres mei | first singular → first plural, and apud te gone |
| 0722A | et palmae in manibus nostris (Apoc 7:9) | et palmae in manibus eorum | third person → first; the gloss's frame (ut stemus) is first person, so the divergence is load-bearing for the argument |
| 0724A | Vota mea Domino reddam in atriis domus Domini, in conspectu omnis populi in medio tui, Jerusalem (Psal 115:9–10) | … reddam in conspectu omnis populi ejus; in atriis domus Domini, in medio tui, Jerusalem | the two phrases are transposed and ejus is dropped; et nomen Domini invocabo is also absent |
| 0724B | Benedixit enim Dominus pusillis cum majoribus (Psal 113:21) | Benedixit omnibus qui timent Dominum, pusillis cum majoribus | the subject changes: in the Vulgate Dominum is the object of timent; here Dominus is the subject of Benedixit. The gloss needs the Lord as blesser, and Migne's text supplies it |
Divergences found, weighed, and NOT marked — with the reason
Pattern 14's bar is a divergence that changes the sense. These clear the collation but not the bar, and are recorded here so a later reader can tell a checked passage from an unchecked one:
- 0715C, I Joan 2:7 — Migne sed vetus quod habuistis; Vulg. sed mandatum vetus, quod habuistis. One repeated noun dropped; the English ("but an old one") carries the same claim. Charissimi for Carissimi is orthography (Pattern 9), not a divergence.
- 0720A, Act 8:21 — Migne in sermone hoc; Vulg. in sermone isto. Deictic swap, no change of sense.
- 0720A, Apoc 21:25 — Migne nox non erit illic; Vulg. nox enim non erit illic.
- 0714C, Neh 3:1 — Migne turrim Hananael; Vulg. turrim Hananeel. Name form.
- 0716A, Neh 3:16 — Migne Nehemias filius Asboth; Vulg. filius Azboc. Name form.
- 0715A, II Par 33:14 — Migne Post hoc aedificavit; Vulg. Post haec aedificavit.
- 0721A, Neh 8:1 — Migne Congregatusque omnis populus; Vulg. Congregatusque est omnis populus. The lemma is clipped at quae, anyway.
- 0721B, Neh 8:10 — Migne Ite et comedite; Vulg. Ite, comedite pinguia.
- 0721C, Neh 8:15 — Migne frondes ligni pulcherrimi et frondes myrti; Vulg. no et.
- 0723B, Neh 12:31 — Migne statui duos choros; Vulg. statui duos magnos choros laudantium. The lemma is a head-fragment.
- 0722C, Neh 8:9 — Migne Dixit autem Nehemias, et ipse est Athersata; Vulg. Dixit autem Nehemias (ipse est Athersatha). Punctuation and one name-form.
- 0726A, Neh 13:31 — Migne in primitiis; Vulg. in primitivis. Both mean the firstfruits, and the difference is one syllable in a word the Clementine on disk is not guaranteed to that precision (see
sources/vulgate/README.md). - 0726A, Neh 13:31 — Migne Memento mei, Deus, in bonum; Vulg. Memento mei, Deus meus, in bonum.
- 0719C, Neh 6:10 — Migne's gloss prose (not a lemma) reads domum Samariae; Vulg. domum Semaiae filii Dalaiae. Rendered "the house of Samarias", treating it as the man's name in Migne's spelling — deliberately NOT "the house of Samaria", which would make the gloss say Nehemias entered a city when the whole point is that he entered a supposed friend's house and found an enemy in it.
Citation numbers that are wrong, and are NOT corrected in the text
Standing rule: citation repair belongs to data/citation-corrections.json at index time. Four instances, all reproduced verbatim:
- 0713D
[n: (Psal. CXXVI.)]on Super flumina Babylonis — the verse is Psal. CXXXVI. - 0715A
[n: (II Par. XII.)]on Post hoc aedificavit murum extra civitatem David — the verse is II Par. XXXIII:14, which Migne himself cites correctly at 0716D. - 0715A
[n: (II Par. XXIII.)]on Aedificavit quoque agens industrie omnem murum — the verse is II Par. XXXII:5. - 0722C
[n: (II Esd. VII)]on Dixit autem Nehemias, et ipse est Athersata — the verse is II Esd. (Neh.) VIII:9.
§3 · [sic: …] — CARRIED TYPE (2)
Both are the same shape — a real word with its final syllable gone — and both are rendered AND marked, per 7a⁗: the marker records the plate, it does not stand in for the English.
0721D · peregrim for peregrini
meminisse nos oportet, quia incolae sumus in terra, et peregrim sicut patres nostri. Rendered "and sojourners [sic: peregrim] as our fathers were". The marker sits inside the already-italic scripture span and takes no second italic marker, per Pattern 10; the verifier's substring test still binds it to the Latin twin.
0721C · Christ for Christi
quia qui Christ sunt, carnem suam cum vitiis et concupiscentiis crucifigunt (Gal 5:24). Rendered "they who are Christ's [sic: Christ] crucify their flesh…". Without the rendering the clause would have lost its predicate entirely — the Tobit failure exactly.
⚠ These two are flagged together as a candidate DIGITIZATION defect, not certainly Migne's. Two truncations of a final -i, seven lines apart, in a book otherwise free of broken type, is the profile of a transcription fault rather than a compositor's. Ruth's significaRuth (0534A) was exactly this class and proved to be Corpus Corporum's line-join, patched upstream. Col. 721 was not among the pages read. If a plate read shows peregrini and Christi, these are data/tei-patches/8962.json fixes and both [sic:] markers come out. Marked as the plate we have, disclosed as suspect.
§4 · MIGNE'S OWN, RENDERED LITERALLY
0724D–0725A · Piscis bonus … Piscis autem malus — ⭐ RESOLVED AT THE PLATE. THE HOLE WAS OURS, NOT MIGNE'S, AND NO MARKER IS OWED.
This was logged as the work's one unconstruable passage, rendered literally, and both a [cj:] and an [ed:] were declined on the ground that "the defect is a hole between words, not a wrong word." The blind reader flagged the same site independently. The plate has now said why. Our text read:
Piscis bonus, est pia fides, quam qui a Domino malus, infirma cogitatio quae se curis hujus mundi ultra modum immergit…
p. 367 prints three lines, and Corpus Corporum skipped the middle one entire:
(1) ibid.) Piscis bonus, est pia fides, quam qui à Domino (2) petit serpentem infidelitatis non accipit. Piscis au- (3) tem malus, infirma cogitatio quæ se curis hujus
The transcription resumed at malus and also dropped the orphan turnover tem, so eight words vanished and the two halves fused into one clause that could not be parsed. Piscis au-|tem is the join: the eye went from the first line's end to the third line's, and the hyphenated word at the break is what let the seam close invisibly.
Patched in data/tei-patches/8962.json, re-chunked, and re-rendered here from the restored Latin. The sentence now turns on Luke 11:11 — quam qui a Domino petit serpentem infidelitatis non accipit — the good fish asked of the Lord against the serpent given in its place, which is exactly the antithesis the following Piscis autem malus requires and that our text had lost along with the autem.
⛔ Nothing is marked, and that is the correct outcome, not an omission. [sic:], [cj:] and [ed:] all say something about the text a reader is looking at; here the words are simply there, and Migne's page was never defective. The only trace this episode leaves is this entry.
⚑ Register — and it is the whole lesson of the site: the ONLY detector for a dropped line is that the passage will not construe. No count, parity, anchor, band or ratio check can see one, because everything that survives the skip is internally consistent: the note count was right, the anchors were right, the italic spans were right, and the word ratio sat mid-band. A silent repair here would have destroyed the only evidence there was. Rendering the wreck literally, declining to conjecture over it, and naming it as the first thing a plate reader should be sent to is what recovered the text — the three moves are one move.
⚑ One word is supplied in the new English and it is named here: Piscis autem malus, infirma cogitatio… has no copula, because Migne's own Piscis bonus, est pia fides two clauses earlier supplies it by ellipsis. English cannot omit it, so "But a bad fish is a weak thought" carries it. Nothing else was added; the quam … quaerunt vendere relative is left running exactly as long as it runs in the Latin.
⚠ Second patch on the same page, six lines below. The plate prints coangustatis where our text had coangustati. The form is dative/ablative plural and can only agree with nobis, not with the nominative Tyrii — so the gloss is on the buyers, not the sellers. My first English read "which the Tyrians, that is, the straitened, seek to sell to us on the sabbath", attaching it to the Tyrians; it now reads "which the Tyrians seek to sell to us, that is, to the straitened, on the sabbath". This is not cosmetic: it is we who are narrowed by worldly cares in Bede's figure, and the old English said the Tyrians were.
0714D · quae comparatio terrenorum quasi dextera ad sinistram sunt — [cj: comparatio; read comparatione]
The nominative comparatio stands in a clause that needs the ablative of comparison. Taken literally the hundred is "the comparison of earthly things", where the argument makes it the heavenly goods compared with earthly ones — the English asserts what he does not. The gloss is additive: the printed word keeps its English and the conjecture stands beside it.
0716D · benedicitur turris Ophel — [cj: benedicitur; read bene dicitur, "is well named"]
Denique ubi in Michaea scriptum est: Et tu turris gregis nebulosa, benedicitur turris Ophel. The whole paragraph is an etymology: Ophel = tenebrarum vel nubili, and Micheas's nebulosa is adduced to show the name fits. Nothing in it blesses anything. Read as the run-together bene dicitur the sentence is exactly the etymological pay-off the paragraph has been building. Rendered "the tower of Ophel is blessed", conjecture beside it. ⚠ Deliberately not marked [sic:]: benedicitur is a real and common word, so Pattern 12 has nothing to wrap and Pattern 10 does not reach it. This is precisely the 11081 munde/mundo shape that Pattern 18 was made for.
0721C · aliisque exsultationis laudent nomen Domini — [cj: aliisque; read labiisque]
sicut adipe et pinguedine repleantur, aliisque exsultationis laudent nomen Domini — the allusion is Psal. 62:6, labiis exsultationis laudabit os meum, and exsultationis is left governing nothing at all by aliis. Rendered "and with others of exultation may praise the name of the Lord", conjecture beside it. The rival considered and rejected: alii … exsultationis as a partitive ("and others of exultation") — rejected because it leaves exsultationis a genitive with no head noun either way, and because the psalm verse is already the paragraph's source for adipe et pinguedine (Psal. 62:6 in full).
Declined — read clean, or read and let alone
- 0715A Aedificavit quoque agens industrie omnem murum — Migne prints no commas round agens industrie where the Clementine does. Punctuation only, inside a quotation; the English uses commas because the participial phrase cannot sit unmarked in English prose. Recorded, not marked.
- 0717B ab altitudine contemplationis, quae … suspendunt — a plural relative and plural verb against a singular contemplationis. Rendered "which suspend"; no emendation offered. Number, like gender (Pattern 9), is Migne's and is legible on the facing column.
- 0720B nec unquam desinit qui … ambiant — singular verb, plural relative. Rendered "nor do they ever cease who…", i.e. normalized to English plural, because English cannot print a subject-verb mismatch without reading as our typo. Logged so the mismatch is not lost: it is on the plate side and visible there.
- 0726A populus … cum opera virtutum … operantur — same class, same treatment.
- 0714C filius Joachim, qui post patrem suum Jesum filium Josedec … pontificatum tenuit — the qui may be Eliasib or Joachim. English "who" keeps the ambiguity exactly as Latin does; nothing needed deciding, and nothing was decided.
- 0717C curas rerum temporalium, Domino scilicet animae subjugatas — two datives in a row. Rendered "subjected, namely, to the Lord of the soul", taking Domino … animae as one phrase. The rival — "to the Lord [and] to the soul" — LOSES because it requires supplying a coordinating conjunction the plate does not print, which is the exact defect Ruth's 0533D produced and both blind readers caught.
- 0722C erat enim dionymos — a Greek loan, "of two names". Rendered "for he was of two names" rather than carried in italics: it is a real word used correctly, so Pattern 12 does not apply, and italicizing it would add an italic span the Latin does not have.
- 0715A, 0715A Verba dierum — Migne's Hebrew-style title for Paralipomenon. Rendered literally, "the Words of the Days", not silently converted to "Chronicles" or "Paralipomenon" (which he uses himself at 0716D, and which is rendered as he prints it there).
- Column-band arithmetic — 0725B is followed by 0726A with 0725C–D absent, because Tobit (8970) begins at 0725B and the two works interleave by band. Runbook false positive 1; no
[ed:], no patch, no plate check. - 0722A (BEDA, ubi supra, [0722B] cap. 28.) — a siglum set in italics in the body rather than as an
[n:]note, with a column anchor inside it. Reproduced exactly: italic span, contents unanglicized, anchor in place. It is the only one in the book. - 0724C etc. usque ad at VERS. 23 lacks the comma its 60 siblings carry (etc. then usque ad). Reproduced bare.
§5 · SUPPLIED-SUBJECT REGISTER
Every "he/she/it/they" the Latin does not print, with what decides it. The corpus rule: the antecedent is usually in the lemma above or in the verse the lemma comes from, not in the sentence.
Decided, with evidence:
| col | Latin | supplied | evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0714A | pervagatur … scrutatur | "he" = Nehemias | the lemma directly above, Considerabam murum Jerusalem (Neh 2:13/15), is Nehemias speaking in the first person; the gloss restates his act in the third |
| 0720C | eorum numerum recensere curavit | "he" = Nehemias | Neh 7:5, and the same paragraph's discernere posset qui in Jerusalem … habitare deberent |
| 0720C | jussit … offerre | "he" = Nehemias | named twice inside the same paragraph — decreta Nehemiae, fecisset … Nehemias |
| 0721A | reversus est | "he" = Nehemias | the disposing of the city's inhabitants (ad disponendos urbis mansores) is Neh 11:1, Nehemias's act |
| 0715A | aedificavit murum extra civitatem David | "he" = Manasses | named in the introducing clause, de Manasse rege Juda |
| 0715A | Aedificavit quoque agens industrie | "he" = Ezechias | named in the introducing clause, temporibus autem Ezechiae |
| 0716C | in arcem mentis irrumpit | "he" = the ancient enemy | hostis antiquus, subject of the preceding verb in the same sentence |
| 0723C | expurgent … expellant | "they" = the two choirs / the more perfect teachers | the lemma Et statui duos choros and the preceding paragraph's perfectiores … Ecclesiae doctores |
| 0716B | ita in Jerusalem defunctus et sepultus ipsum … passurum | "he figured" (verb, not subject) | figuravit in the sicut half of the correlative; David throughout |
Left bare, and why — a reader should know these were seen, not missed:
| col | Latin | rendered | why nothing was named |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0718B | ruinam aedificasse probatur | "he is proved to have built" | the antecedent is inside the part of Bede's sentence the usque ad removed; the tail is generic ("whoever builds thus") |
| 0721B | Videtur meminisse | "He seems to be mindful" | the head of an abridged sentence; both Bede and Esdras construe, and nothing on this page decides |
| 0721C | praecipit | "He commands" | Neh 8:10 puts the words in the mouth of Nehemias-with-Esdras; Bede's frame may make it the Lord. Two readings, both construe, neither named |
| 0722B | Ostendit | "He shows" | the subject is either the Scripture or Bede; the abridgment cut whichever it was |
| 0717D | nomina conscribit in coelo | "he writes down their names" | the resumption tail of an abridged sentence; the allusion is Luc. 10:20, where the writer is God, but the plate names nobody here |
| 0724C | eum ab armis inimicorum munivit | "fortified them" | eum is masculine singular and its antecedent is populi sui in the same clause; English "them" for a collective people, not a second referent |
§6 · THE VULGATE COLLATION — ALL 138 ITALIC SPANS, NAMED
Every italic span in the five chunks was collated against sources/vulgate/clementine-flat.txt. A list of findings alone cannot be told apart from a report by an agent that never looked, so the agreements are named individually below. Divergences are in §2; everything here agrees with the Clementine as far as Migne quotes.
Chunk 0000 (13 spans). Verba Nehemiae filii. · consolator Domini, (an etymology, not scripture) · Verba Nehemiae. · In mense Casleu. · Eram in Susis. · Qui remanserunt. · Flevi et luxi. · Factum est autem. · Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus, · Si videtur, · Et audierunt. · Considerabam murum Jerusalem. · Quia Jerusalem deserta est. — all clean. ⚑ One address note: the VERS. 15 lemma Considerabam murum Jerusalem is the wording of Neh 2:13, not of 2:15 (considerabam murum alone). Migne's verse address is reproduced as printed and is not a textual divergence; recorded here so a later reader does not read it as one.
Chunk 0001 (37 spans). Et surrexit Eliasib sacerdos. · Et usque ad turrim centum cubitorum … Hananael. (name form, §2) · Et aedificaverunt. · Portam gregis. · Post hoc aedificavit murum… (§2) · Aedificavit quoque agens industrie omnem murum, · Ipsi texerunt. · Ad portam veterem. · Charissimi, non mandatum novum… (§2) · Mandatum vetus est verbum quod audistis. · Ad murum. · Viam mandatorum tuorum cucurri, · Et portam vallis. (twice) · Et mille. · Et portam fontis aedificavit Sellum filius, · De civitate David, · Cepit autem David arcem Sion, haec est civitas David · Habitavit autem David in arce, et vocavit eam civitatem David · Aedificavit Nehemias filius Asboth, (name form, §2) · Contra sepulcrum David, · Ad piscinam, etc. · Et aedificavit, · Contra ascensum, · Nathinaei. · In Ophel. · Et tu turris gregis nebulosa · Manasses aedificavit murum extra civitatem David … usque ad Ophel · Qui sunt isti qui ut nubes volant · Tenebrosa aqua in nubibus aeris · Contra. · Post eum aedificaverunt Thecueni, · A turre. · Ad murum templi. · Solvite templum hoc, et in tribus diebus excitabo illud: · Sursum autem, · Aedificaverunt sacerdotes, — all clean but the four flagged. ⭐ II Reg 5:7 and 5:9, Mich 4:8, Isa 60:8, Psal 17:12, Psal 118:32, Joan 2:19, II Par 33:14 are verbatim. Isa 60:8 and Joan 2:19 are word-for-word to the last syllable.
Chunk 0002 (27 spans). Sanaballat … motus nimis subsannavit Judaeos. · Sed et Tobias, · Et oravimus. · Humus nimia est. · Dixerunt hostes, · Statui in loco, · A die illa, media pars, · Et sint vobis vices… (§2) · Et factus est clamor, · Et increpavi optimates, · Insuper excussi sinum meum, et dixi: Sic excutiat Deus omnem, · Et dixit universa multitudo, Amen. · Per annos duodecim. · Quia statuit Dominus… (§2) · Veni, et percutiamus foedus, · Et ingressus. · Mensis Eliud. (§2) · Universae gentes. · Postquam autem aedificatus est murus, · Recensui janitores. · Non est tibi pars, neque sors… (§2 minor) · Non aperiantur portae … usque ad calorem solis, · Et portae ejus non claudentur… (§2 minor) · Et posui custodes. · Pro patribus tuis nati sunt tibi filii · Unumquemque contra domum. · Omnis multitudo quasi vir unus. — ⭐ Psal 44:17 is verbatim, letter for letter. Et dixit universa multitudo, Amen. prints a comma where the Clementine prints a colon; Migne's mark rides as printed.
Chunk 0003 (29 spans). Et venerat mensis septimus. · Congregatusque omnis populus… (§2 minor) · Ante portam aquarum. · Stetit autem Esdras scriba super gradum. · Ite et comedite, (§2 minor) · Nolite contristari. · Quia dies sanctus est. · Quasi tristes, semper autem gaudentes · Et invenerunt, · incolae sumus in terra, et peregrim… (§2, §3) · Ligni pulcherrimi, · Christi bonus odor… (§2) · Frondes ligni pulcherrimi et frondes myrti, (§2 minor) · Ramos palmarum. · ante thronum in conspectu Agni… (§2) · Unusquisque in domate. · Septem diebus. · In die autem, · (BEDA, ubi supra, cap. 28.) (a siglum, §4) · Et dixit Esdras. · Super omnibus ergo his. · Signatores, · Nehemias qui Athersata fertur, (Migne's alia translatio, not the Vulgate — not collated, and that is why) · Dixit autem Nehemias, et ipse est Athersata (§2 minor) · Habitaverunt autem. · Et in Jerusalem. · De filiis Juda habitaverunt in Cariatharbe · confitens · confessio, (the last two are an etymology of Judas, not scripture) — ⭐ II Cor 6:10 and Neh 11:25 are verbatim.
Chunk 0004 (32 spans). Hi sunt autem, · Et in cymbalis, · Filii cantorum. · Et mundati. · Principes Juda, · Super muros tuos Jerusalem constitui custodes · Et statui duos choros. (§2 minor) · Et de filiis sacerdotum, · In vasis cantici David. · Et Esdras scriba. · Et contra eos ascenderunt in gradibus. · Super domum David. · Et super turrim furnorum. · Steteruntque duo chori. · Et clare cecinerunt. Dirupisti vincula mea… (§2) · Deus enim laetificaverat, · Sed et uxores, · Benedixit / Dominus pusillis cum majoribus (§2) · Recensuerunt quoque, · In die autem illo lectum, · Factum est autem, · In omnibus his. · Et projeci vasa domus Tobiae. · Et projeci. · Inferentes pisces et omnia, · Factum est autem. · Dixi quoque Levitis ut mundarentur, · Sed et in diebus illis. · Igitur mundavi eos. · Et in oblatione lignorum … et in primitiis. (§2 minor) · Memento mei, Deus, in bonum. (§2 minor) — ⭐ Isa 62:6 is verbatim; Neh 12:27–43 and 13:1–30 are verbatim throughout except for the head-clippings noted.
⚑ A clipped lemma is not a divergence. Verba Nehemiae filii. (for filii Helchiae), Dixerunt hostes, (for Et dixerunt hostes nostri), In omnibus his. (for In omnibus autem his) and the rest are fragments of exactly the class convention 3 governs, and they are rendered as the phrases they stand for. They were not contrasted with the complete one-word lemmata (Nathinaei. · Contra. · Signatores. · A turre.), which are a different class with nothing elided — the non-defect three readers manufactured in one batch. Nothing here was expanded beyond what Migne prints.
§7 · THE FOUR TESTS, RUN ON MY OWN FILES
- Marker-strip. Every
[sic:],[cj:],[var:],[n:]was stripped and the residue read for stranded articles, prepositions and doubled marks. Both[sic:]sentences read whole without their brackets ("and sojourners as our fathers were"; "they who are Christ's crucify their flesh"), and all three[cj:]sentences carry Migne's own word in plain English before the gloss. No clause lost its object. - Negation hosts. All 37 printed negatives (non ×25, nec ×2, neque ×1, necdum ×1, ne ×2, nunquam ×1, nil ×1, nullo ×1, sine ×2, noluerunt ×1) were listed, each was assigned to the single Latin word it attaches to, and the English was checked for the negative on that word. Four fired 2a's trigger condition (a negative near a quantifier or correlative) and all four were proved from structure, not from what reads well: non parvo tempore (0714C, on parvo), non solum media pars (0718C, on media pars), nec solum apostoli, sed et prophetae (0719C, on apostoli), non solum qui … aedificarunt, sed etiam infirmiores (0724B, on the relative clause). The two non … sed phrases where English word order puts "not" before the verb (0723D non suo sensu … sed; 0720B non … de neophytis … sed de illis) are the shape 8960 @0740B settled as correct.
- Punctuation by column band. The anchors partition both twins identically, so
?,:,;,«,»and!were counted band by band, not by total. The first run returned twenty mismatched bands — five deletions of a mark Migne prints (0713D lugebat:, 0714B pervagatur;, 0718C aedificant:, 0719B patet:, 0720A suscipiant;) and fifteen marks supplied where he prints a comma. All twenty were repaired; the band comparison now returns zero mismatches on every mark in every chunk. ⛔ Totals would have hidden most of this: chunk 0002's colons came out 4 against 5 while its semicolons came out 2 against 0. - Anchor positions (2b). Each of the 52 column anchors was checked against the word it stands beside in the Latin, not merely for presence. One was moved (0718D, from after the sentence's full stop to before it, matching ab Ecclesia [0718D] repellunt). The rest stand at the same word boundary in both columns.
- The fourth test. Each paragraph was read back against the Latin asking only does it assert what he asserts. Three repairs came out of it and nothing else. 0713A Hierosolymorum moenia had been read as "the walls of the men of Jerusalem", over-reading a plain neuter plural place-name. 0724D had been given a plural qui ("they who from the Lord") where the text prints the singular, which made a broken sentence read slightly smoother than it was — the exact tell §5 of the brief names, and the tightening is what kept the wreck visible until the plate could be read. 0725A coangustatis hung the gloss on the wrong noun (§4), found on the re-render after the patch. ⚑ And the test's limit is worth recording beside its successes: it could tell that 0724D did not assert anything, but nothing in it — or in any other check here — could say that eight words were missing rather than mangled. Only the plate could.
- Italic-span parity. With our English-only markers (
[var:],[cj:],[sic:]) stripped, the two columns carry 199 italic spans each — 19 / 50 / 38 / 40 / 52 — in the same order and the same places. ⚠ The two[sic:]markers are deliberately set differently and it is not an inconsistency: 0721C's sits in roman prose and takes italics ([sic: Christ], Pattern 12's own form), while 0721D's sits inside an already-italic scripture span and takes none ([sic: peregrim]), because nested italics are not expressible — the rule Pattern 10 states for exactly this case.
§8 · WHAT A BLIND READER SHOULD OPEN FIRST
⭐ 0724D is no longer on this list. It was item 1; the plate read it, the missing line is restored, the passage construes, and no marker is owed there (§4). What remains:
- 0721C–0721D, the two truncations (§3) — now the likeliest survivors of the same class as 0724D, since col. 721 has still not been read. If they are the digitization's, both
[sic:]markers come out and a tei-patch goes in. - 0716D benedicitur (§4). The most interpretive of the three conjectures.
- The six bare subjects in §5's second table. Each is an abridgment tail with its antecedent cut away, and each is a place where a confident wrong name would be invisible.
- 0717C Domino scilicet animae subjugatas — two datives, one reading taken, the rival named and refused.