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 0985A — printed ejus constitutionem vindicare sibi votuerunt. Intended voluerunt. Rendered "wished to claim for themselves."
- col 0984D — the column sequence jumps 0983D → 0984D with no A/B/C columns in between. This is the printed sequence in the plate (the intervening columns belong to the preceding piece); anchors reproduced as found, not interpolated.
- col 0985D — et ideo non se contra illos concrederent: concredere here in a reflexive sense with contra. Rendered "would not entrust themselves against them"; sense is "would not commit themselves to opposing them." A read-through may want to loosen this.
- col 0987C — per occasionabiles circadas: circada is the Carolingian episcopal circuit-levy. Rendered "circuit-levies" per the working-equivalent rule rather than left in italic Latin; flag if the project prefers circada italicized as a technical institution-word.
- col 0988C — the sentence sicut Dominus dicit, qui injuste judicant, juste judicati condemnabuntur is given as dominical but corresponds to no gospel text verbatim (cf. Matth. VII, 2). Translated as printed, attribution untouched.
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Blind Opus read of the Latin/English pair for sense-reversing defects (one word or one letter asserting the opposite of what the context requires). 1 site(s). Migne's defects are recorded here and rendered literally in the English; our own errors were fixed in place. Full context: data/sweeps/corpus-polarity/REPORT.md.
0988C — dropped-word (ours, medium confidence)
Printed: Sollicite unicuique ambulandum est cum Deo suo, et regi praecipue, qui sub tantis erit poenis in futuro saeculo, si malus fuerit, super quantos fuit in isto saeculo, in [0988D] quo se a malitia non correxit, et non fecit judicium et justitiam, et non ambulavit sollicite cum Deo suo.
Conjecture: Restore the conditional: "…will be under punishments, IF HE HAS BEEN WICKED, as great as the number of those over whom he was in this age…"
The printed Latin conditions the king's punishment on "si malus fuerit"; the English drops it and so asserts flatly that a king WILL be punished in the age to come. That contradicts the immediate neighbour, which makes the punishment hang on failure — "in quo se a malitia non correxit, et non fecit judicium et justitiam" — and it contradicts the sentence that follows, the whole point of which is that Louis can escape this by amendment: "sic vobis necesse est ut sollicite ambuletis cum seniore vestro rege regum, ut de praeteritis, quae contra illius voluntatem fecistis, illi per confessionem et cordis contritionem, et per opera bona satisfaciatis." An unconditional damnation of kings would make the exhortation pointless.