Prologus de commendatione Sacrae Scripturae

Every column was read at the plate, word by word: Gallica bpt6k5505319w leaves f13 (cols 25/26), f14 (27/28), f15 (29/30). Where needed the archive.org copy (patrologiaecurs04migngoog, PDF pp. 18–20) was a second witness.

§0 · The two copies are TWO PRINTINGS, and our twin follows the archive one

The archive and Gallica copies of these pages were set differently. The display title on f13 is in italic upper-and-lower case on Gallica and in small capitals on the archive, and the running text differs by word and by mark. At every site in this range where the two disagree, our TEI twin agrees with the archive printing, letter for letter and mark for mark. So these divergences are press variants between two Migne printings, not transcription errors, and nobody is to blame (CLAUDE.md, the PL 114 Bethehem/Bethlehem rule: a crux, no [sic:], no patch). The English follows the twin, which means it follows the archive printing. Each variant is listed below so a later ruling can reverse that choice. Patches are filed only where the twin departs from BOTH printings (see data/briefs/PL113L-PENDING-TEI-PATCHES-B.md).

§1 · Work conventions (for the merge with 8972)

• sensus litteralis / mysticus / spiritualis / allegoricus / moralis / anagogicus: literal / mystical / spiritual / allegorical / moral / anagogical sense (brief §8). tropologicus = tropological. historicus = historical.
• sacra Scriptura = Holy Scripture throughout (Pattern 3), including Scriptura sacra.
• specularis intelligentia = "mirroring understanding" (the liber/speculum argument turns on the mirror, so "speculative" would lose the word the gloss explains). generalis continentia = "general comprehensiveness"; salutaris efficacia = "saving efficacy"; singularis eminentia = "singular eminence".
• expositio = exposition; elucidare = explain (Ecclus 24:31, "They that explain me").
• habitus principiorum = "the habit of principles"; intellectus possibilis / agens = possible / agent intellect; phantasma = phantasm.
• Book numbers in running prose (tertio de anima, primo Metaphys.) are rendered as ordinal books with the title in italics (Pattern 2); scripture chapter ordinals (Deuteronomii quarto) as "the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy"; roman addresses as printed (Romanos I → "Romans I").

§2 · Cruces

• 0025B [n: (Eccli. XXIII)] — WRONG ADDRESS, Migne's. Haec omnia liber vitae is Ecclus 24:32 in the Clementine, not chapter 23. Plate-verified on both printings (Gallica f13 native crop, archive p. 18). The note rides verbatim; nothing is corrected.
• 0025B Homil. 35 Evangeliorum — ⚑ BRIEF §7 SETTLED: THE PLATE PRINTS 35, NOT 55. Native crop of Gallica f13 at 8×: the first digit is this fount's flat-topped 3 (a horizontal top bar with a diagonal falling into the bowl), and the second is a 5 (a vertical stem at the upper left under a flagged bar). The two glyphs are visibly different at native resolution; prep's 1400-px survey merged them. The archive printing reads a round-topped 35 too. Our twin is right; no patch, no marker. The quotation Temporalis vita, aeternae vitae comparata, mors est potius dicenda quam vita is Gregory, Hom. in Ev. 37, so Lyra's (or Migne's) number is wrong, and it is rendered as printed ("Homily 35 on the Gospels").
• 0026C [sic: processis]. In quo quidem processis licet non sit error: the sense needs processu ("in which process"), matching in tali processu four lines on. processis has no slot (at most a dative/ablative plural participle, "for those having proceeded", with no construction), so it fails Pattern 12's "renders in place" test. Plate: Gallica f13 prints processis; archive p. 18 prints processis. Two witnesses, so the [sic:] stands. The English gives the sense beside the marker (7a⁗).
• 0026D duo decimo: our split, not Migne's. The twin splits duodecimo. The archive printing sets duodecimo as one word. On Gallica there is a worn mark between duo and decimo but no word space. It is a mid-line word, so it is not a line break. This is our file's defect: no [sic:]. Rendered "twelfth". Patch filed.
• 0027B verum judicatur.; quod autem: press variant. The archive printing and our twin set a full stop and a semicolon together. The Gallica printing sets the semicolon alone. The English follows the twin: "is judged true.; but" (Pattern 8, preserve). No patch.
• 0027B ex illis, judicatur. Gallica shows a full stop where the archive and the twin have a comma. It is probably a worn comma on the Gallica copy (that copy also loses the period after tertio at 0028B). The English follows the twin. No patch.
• 0027A Mt 22:40 guillemets. Migne opens « after in (dicit quod in « duobus praeceptis charitatis tota lex pendet et prophetae: »). They are mirrored exactly ("that on « the two precepts …"). The quotation is Lyra's paraphrase (charitatis is his, and the Vulgate has his duobus mandatis universa lex), not a divergence claim.
• 0028B I Corinthiorum decimo tertio. Sed. Gallica shows no stop, while the archive and the twin have one. It is a worn stop on Gallica. The English follows the twin.
• 0028B–C illustrati non sumus, non possumus. Gallica shows a stop, while the archive and the twin have a comma. The English follows the twin.
• 0028C sed speciale et huic libro: press variant, WORD-LEVEL. Gallica prints est (sed speciale est huic libro). The archive printing and the twin print et. Both construe ("but special also to this book" / "but it is special to this book"), and the sense is unchanged. The English follows the twin. No patch, no marker.
• 0028D ἀνάγω: plate-verified on Gallica f14 and archive p. 19, with acute on the α. Kept.
• 0028D verse couplet. Migne lineates the two hexameters Littera gesta docet… / Moralis quid agas… on both printings. Our twin keeps the first line run into the prose paragraph and breaks before Moralis. The English mirrors the twin's line structure (Pattern 8a). The lineation difference is layout only.
• 0028D postea per Salomonem dilata et fortificata: press variant, WORD-LEVEL. Gallica prints dilatata ("enlarged"). The archive printing and the twin print dilata. dilata (from differo) is a real word whose older sense is "spread abroad, extended", so it renders in place: "afterwards spread abroad and fortified by Solomon". It is not a [cj:] case (no negation or correlative, and the English asserts nothing false). The English follows the twin.
• 0028D Secundum Vero sensum. Our twin capitalizes Vero, while both printings have lower-case vero. It is a trivial transcription slip with no English exponent. Not patched (no sense, no mark).
• 0029A est mater nostra, » Et sicut. Gallica shows a stop, while the archive and the twin have a comma. The English follows the twin, keeping the comma before the capital "And".
• 0029A in una oratione: et sicut. Gallica shows a single spaced dot, which is Migne's spacing for a colon, so it is a worn colon. The English follows the twin.
• 0029A Apocalypsis « quinto: Vidi …: GUILLEMET LOST BY OUR TWIN. Both printings set Et Apocalypsis at a line end, then « quinto : « Vidi in dextera …. The first « is a stray line-start continuation mark and the second is the real opening. Our twin keeps the stray and drops the real one. The English mirrors the twin's single « (the verifier checks guillemet parity against the twin), which puts it before "five". A patch is filed to restore « before Vidi. When it lands, the English needs the matching « before "I saw".
• 0029A–B, 0030A: Scrutamini … in quibus putatis (Jn 5:39). The Clementine has quia vos putatis in ipsis. Lyra's exposition turns on putatis, which is present, and "in which you think" versus "because you think in them" does not alter his argument. Listed, not marked.
• 0030A Ecclesiastici vigesimo quarto: Qui elucidant me = Ecclus 24:31 ✓.
• No foot-of-page apparatus on f13, f14 or f15, in either the numbered layer or the asterisk/letter layer. Checked zero.

§3 · Scripture checked against sources/vulgate/clementine-flat.txt

[var:] fired in 8971: none. No divergence changes the sense a reader takes from the quotation.

Non-scripture authorities, rendered as printed, not checked for correction: Gregory Hom. 35 (=37, see above); Aristotle De anima III and I, Metaph. II (In foribus quis delinquet), I, XII, IV, Phys. VIII; Jerome, Ep. to Paulinus; Augustine, De Trin. XIV.1; "the Gloss" on Jn 16:13 and Is 38:1.

Merge, 2026-09-16

• TEI patches applied (data/tei-patches/8971.json, re-chunked, verify OK): duo decimo→duodecimo @0026D, and the dropped opening « before Vidi @0029A. The English (0001) gained the matching « in the same commit: "And in Apocalypse « five: « I saw in the right hand …". The press variants in §0 take no patch and no marker; the two-printings finding is recorded, scoped to cols 25–40, in data/briefs/PL113-WITNESS-ENCODING.md.

Blind polarity read, 2026-09-16 (reader R1; report data/briefs/PL113L-POLARITY-R1.md)

Two sites, both ours, both fixed, neither previously logged.

• 0026B (ours). quod notat pronomen singulare, cum dicitur, haec: Lyra reads haec in Haec omnia liber vitae as the singular, "this" (Scripture), and the English quoted it as "these", plural, inside the sentence that calls it singular. Now "when it is said, haec ("this")". The lemma's own rendering, "All these things", stands: it is Migne's verse, and Lyra's reading of it is the gloss.
• 0028A (Migne's, and the English had hidden it) — [cj: leguntur; read legunt] ADDED. Migne prints the passive, in quo libro leguntur sancti apostoli et prophetae, "in which book are read the holy apostles and prophets", while the gloss he immediately quotes has the prophets READING in the book of foreknowledge (Prophetae in ipso libro praescientiae legere possunt). The stint had rendered it active, which repaired the clash silently: the class 7a forbids. Now rendered as printed, with the conjecture.
• 0028C speciale et huic libro. R1 judged "special also to this book" to weaken the common-to-all/special-to-this contrast the sentence turns on (the press variant, Gallica est, is logged above). Et is intensive here; now "but special indeed to this book".