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 →
Migne's addenda to the Damasus volume: (1) a Monitum reporting the abbot Terribilini's annotations, (2) the Évora Breviary office for St. Damasus (1548), (3) a dossier of testimonies on Damasus' birthplace, (4) an analysis of Terribilini's opinions.
0417C — head run-on
The section head is printed with no space at the sentence break: … pag. 837.IN FESTO SANCTI DAMASI PAPAE ET CONFESSORIS. Reproduced with the same run-on in English (p. 837.ON THE FEAST OF SAINT DAMASUS …) so the head matches the Latin twin 1:1.
0417D–0419C — liturgical cues
The P. at the end of the collect and the T. / Tu. at the end of each lesson are the Breviary's cues (Per…, Tu autem Domine…). Kept verbatim, unexpanded.
0418B — basilica, quae Sicinini appellatur
Kept as printed (the Sicininian basilica, Ammianus' Sicinini), not normalized to Liberii.
0419C — tertio idus Decembris: anno secundo Arcadii Augusti
The dating is left in the printed Roman form ("on the third of the Ides of December"), unconverted. The Breviary's chronology is internally inconsistent (accession 369 + 18 years 2 months 10 days ≠ the second year of Arcadius); left as the Breviary reckons it.
0419D — imprint
OLISIPONE, apud LUDOVICUM ROTORIGIUM bibliopolam — the Latinized printer's name is given in its Portuguese form ("at Lisbon … Luís Rodrigues"), which is the identification, not an emendation; the capitals and the italic run of the imprint are kept as Migne sets them.
0419D–0420A — de rebus Hisqaniae
The incipit and body print Hisqaniae, which is not a word: broken type for Hispaniae (Marineus Siculus' De rebus Hispaniae is a known title, and the dossier's argument is about Spanish birthplaces throughout). Per Pattern 7 the non-word is carried into the English untranslated, inside the italic title: On the Affairs of Hisqaniae. An earlier draft translated the conjecture (On the Affairs of Spain); that has been withdrawn.
0420A — turres … octo et vigniti supra centum
vigniti is not a word: transposed type for viginti ("twenty"), giving Marineus' count of 128 towers. Per Pattern 7 the non-word is carried into the English untranslated and in italics, the rest of the additive formula rendered in the printed order: "we counted towers, eight and vigniti above a hundred."
0420A–0421A — vernacular quotations
Two quoted passages are not Latin: Beuter's chronicle (0420D, Castilian) and Flórez's España Sagrada (0421A, Castilian). They are translated into English like the rest, and the small-capital emphasis Migne gives them (PAPA DAMASO, NATURAL DE TARRAGONA; ESPAÑOL) is carried over. A reader wanting the Castilian must go to the Latin twin — flagged here because the project's policy statements assume a Latin base text.
0420B–0420C — place-names in the birthplace dossier
Vimaranes (Guimarães), Igaeditanum / Egitania (Idanha-a-Velha), Bracara Augusta (Braga), Mantua Carpetanorum (Madrid) are left in the Latin forms the witnesses use, because the whole dossier is an argument about which name belongs to Damasus; only unambiguous modern equivalents (Évora, Braga, Madrid, Tarragona) are given in English where the source itself is already unambiguous.
0422A — Terribilini's supplement to Damasus, poem XIII
Migne sets the reconstruction with two overlaid typographic signals: italics for Terribilini's supplied words, and initial capitals for the words/letters surviving on the stone (Insons Vita fuit Marci, Justitiae AE custos, Ornav Et Damasus). The italics are carried into the English; the capital-marking of surviving stone letters cannot survive translation, since it operates at the level of Latin letters. The stray AE at 0422A and the broken Ornav|Et are kept as printed. Anyone using this passage epigraphically must read the Latin twin.
0422A–0422B — the Saturninus inscription (poem XX)
The damaged lines are left verbatim, untranslated, because they are letter-level evidence, not prose:
OLA NUNC FUERAT CRARTA . . . . . CINIS AN . .(Palatine codex, Gruter p. MCLXXI) — dot-lacunae reproduced with the same counts;CRARTAis as printed.NUNC XPI FUERAT CHARTAGINIS ANUS(same codex, p. MCLXXVI).- Terribilini's restored couplet
Horum martyrum cultor Damasus / IncOLA nunc XPI FUERAS Carthaginis, ante.— the mixed case is the argument (which letters are on the stone, which are supplied), so the couplet stands in Latin.
The framing prose around them is translated normally.
0422C — LXXII
The number of martyrs (et alios LXXII) is kept in Roman numerals throughout, because Terribilini's argument turns on how easily numerals are miscopied.
0422C–D — sigillatque Martyrologia
sigillat is odd; probably signat ("notes, marks") or sigillat in the sense of setting a mark against. Rendered "sets his mark upon the Martyrologies." Worth a check against Terribilini's own text.
0423A → 0424A — column jump
Migne's text runs 0423A directly to 0424A; cols 0423B–D carry no text of this piece. Both anchors reproduced as printed; the gap is not an omission in the translation.
Titles and locators
Poem-titles (de SS. AA. Catacumbis, de Sepulcro suo, Epitaph. Projectae) are translated and title-cased per style pattern 2, since they open the units they name. Bare bibliographic locators inside the prose (epistol. 82 Ver. edit., hymn. XI, de Coron., p. MCLXXIII, n. 9, III kal. Decembris, V kal. Septembris) are left in Migne's abbreviated Latin form.