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 →
- 0899A — printed
Signa manuum Hugonis marchionis...andSigna *** manuum Ariperti.... The asterisks are Migne's typographic stand-ins for the signatories' hand-drawn crosses/signs (two hands, then six hands), not* markdown italic delimiters. Reproduced literally and in the same count in the English; renderers must not treat them as emphasis. - 0899A —
...quae ad hoc vocati [n: ( ita cod. )] sunt.The note is Migne's own flag: the participle is masculinevocatiwhere the antecedentpersonaeis feminine (vocataeexpected). No emendation was made and none is possible: English participles carry no gender, so "who were called to this" renders the printedvocatiexactly and would rendervocataeidentically. The mismatch survives only in the Latin twin, where Migne's own( ita cod. )marks it. Note left verbatim and untranslated. - 0899A —
praesentis sacri [n: ( ita cod. )] synodi: Migne flagssacri(masc./neut. gen.) agreeing with femininesynodi(sacraeexpected). No emendation was made and none is possible: English adjectives carry no gender, so "of the present sacred synod" renders the printedsacriexactly. The mismatch survives only in the Latin twin. Note verbatim. - 0900B —
et [quia] uniforme cum originale inveni. The[quia]is a bracketed editorial supply in Migne's own text (the parallel subscriptions all readet quia ... inveni);cum originaleforcum originalilikewise stands as printed. Bracket preserved in the English as[because]; no silent emendation.