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 →
Obscure place-names kept in italic Latin rather than guessing a modern identification (per batch instructions):
- col 0074A / 0075D — Insula (Gerardus Insulanus, "Gerard of Insula"), abbot. Plausibly L'Isle-Adam or a house named Insula, but not securely identifiable from the text; kept the Latin adjectival form in italic.
- col 0074D — Herleius, the village on the bank of the Somme where the girl Emelina was born, "midway between the stronghold of Saint-Quentin and the monastery of Homblières." Kept italic Latin.
- col 0076A — Marceia, the village where Robert Anguillula's granted garden lay. Kept italic Latin.
Names given standard English forms where one exists: Hunegund, Benedict, Homblières (Humolariae), Saint-Quentin, Noyon (Noviomensis), Eligius, Mont-Saint-Quentin, Vermandois (Viromandensis), Louis (Ludovicus), Henry (Henricus), Philip (Philippus), Macarius, Berner (Bernerus), Bertha, Baldwin (Balduinus), Godfrey (Godefridus), Robert (Rotbertus), Boniface Waleran, Rainer, Praejectus. No garbled type encountered.