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 →
Governed by Pattern 7 and E1–E12. Stint C, 2026-09-16. Plate read in full: archive n660 (corners 1243/1244, map (col+77)/2). No divergence from our twin, so no second witness was needed. On the plate this is Floss's FRAGMENTUM IV of the John commentary (9176), E codice eodem (the Laon codex), printed in the ADDITAMENTUM; that head is not in our TEI (front-matter ruling owed).
Standing decisions — the prayer vocabulary (1 Tim 2:1 and its two Latin enumerations)
The passage turns on four sets of names, so each Latin word keeps one English word throughout: oratio "prayer" · obsecratio "supplication" · postulatio "request" · gratiarum actio "thanksgiving" · precatio "precation" · interpellatio "interpellation". Precation and interpellation are deliberately Latinate: Augustine's list (Ep. 149) is being contrasted word by word with Ambrose's and with "our codices". subponere → "place under" (three times), since Eriugena is assigning each kind of request to a heading.
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[var:]. Ambrose's order orationes, obsecrationes, postulationes, gratiarum actiones differs from the Clementine 1 Tim 2:1 (obsecrationes, orationes, postulationes, gratiarum actiones), but it is reported as Ambrose's enumeration, not quoted as scripture, and the passage itself is about what different codices read. Logged, not fired.
1243B — ut vestri codices habent "as your codices have"
vestri is plural → "your" (Pattern 17). Floss's note ¹: codex uri, f. nostri, ut paulo post? (i.e. nostri, as nostri codices a few lines on). The English follows Floss's printed vestri.
1243B — quas omnes sive paene omnes frequentat ecclesia in solempnitate sacramentorum
Italic as printed (Augustine quoted); "all of which, or nearly all, the church frequents in the solemnity of the sacraments". Floss notes both omnes as cod. omnis.
1244B — quaudo populus benedicitur (E12)
quaudo is a one-letter non-word (broken n) printed on the plate AND in our twin; the only word it can be is quando. Rendered "when", no marker, crux here.
1244B — ut pra . . . . . . . st de sancto Augustino (lacuna)
Floss's note ⁵: one or two words are lost where the parchment is cut away; forte legendum ut praedictum est ("perhaps read: as has been said above"). The broken run is carried in italics with the twin's seven points, dot for dot (E7); the plate sets the points close and they cannot be counted with certainty (~6–7). Not glossed in the English (Floss's conjecture is scholars' business; it sits on the Latin side). ⚑ For a human: note ⁵ is a SENTENCE on the numbered VL layer (same class as 9178 ¹ and 9181 n170 ¹⁸); recorded vl, Latin-only, pending a ruling on whether numbered prose notes take an [nt:].
1244B — suspendor virorum ac piorum Patrum judicio "I hang upon the judgment of men and of pious Fathers"
Odd as printed (one expects sanctorum ac piorum Patrum or virorum piorum); plate and twin agree. Rendered literally, not repaired.
1244B — Cetera desunt. → The rest is lacking. (E7)
Floss's Variae lectiones — 5 rows, 5 placed. No NOTAE on n660 (checked zero).
Blind read (R6, 2026-09-16)
Applied: 1244B postulatio … pro absolutione peccatorum is one noun phrase → "the request for the absolution of sins is placed by saint Ambrose" (the comma and the bare "request" made it read as the term being placed). Report: data/briefs/PL122-BLIND-READ-R6.md.