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 →
This is an editorial-historical preface (Maurist-style) on the abbey of Fruttuaria, embedding quoted imperial/episcopal charters in « » and in italic runs.
- 0841C (end of chunk 0000) — the paragraph closes with an UNBALANCED open parenthesis and never resolves it in the source:
... intra regni sui fines ( Vide supra in ROBERTO rege inter praecepta ejus ecclesiastica.The chunk simply ends there. Rendered as printed — open paren kept, cross-reference translated with its italic structure preserved (Pattern 4: a cross-reference is editorial comment, translated, NOT an[f:]locator) — "( See above under ROBERT the king, among his ecclesiastical precepts.". The dangling paren is Migne's, not an omission on my part. - 0841D (chunk 0001, §7) —
omnium quae ( sic ) asserenda monasterii ejusdem libertate: Migne prints his own( sic )flag inside the sentence, marking the anomalousquae. Reproduced in place as "( sic )", untranslated (it is Migne's editorial mark). - 0842A (§7) —
... a Nitardo et Rotberto germanis ipsius Gotefredi cuidam Guntardo levitae traditus est: masculinetradituswhere the antecedent should agree with the neuter monasterium / the charter; the syntax is loose in the source. Rendered per sense ("which was handed over ... to a certain Guntard the levite"); not emended. - 0843D/0844A (§9) —
A. imperatrix et peccatrix A. [Andreae] Patri bono: the addressee's name is abbreviatedA.and Migne (or the editor) supplies[Andreae]in brackets. Bracket preserved in English as "A. [Andrew]". - §7 date line —
Actum apud Divionem publice III Idus Januarii ... indictione XV regnante...: the Roman numerals III and XV are printed OUTSIDE the italic runs; italic boundaries preserved exactly as printed.
2026-07-28 — quotation markers repaired (post-hoc sweep)
This work shipped 2026-07-20 with Migne's guillemets rendered as straight double quotes, and with two of its nine quotations broken around "he says" in English convention. Both were repaired 2026-07-28 under translation-style.md Pattern 5:
- All 10 quotations (9 in chunk 0000, 1 in 0001) restored to « … », 1:1 with the Latin twin's openings and closings.
- 0840A (Henry's diploma, « Domnus, inquit, abbas Willelmus … ») and 0840C–D (« Dehinc, inquit, ut stabilius permaneat … »): the interrupting inquit had been lifted out of the quotation as
"…," he says, "…". Rejoined, with "he says" kept inside the guillemets where Migne keeps inquit.
No wording was changed; this is a marker repair only. verify-english.mjs gained a guillemet-parity check the same day so the class cannot ship unseen again.
<!-- corpus-polarity-sweep 2026-07-28 --> ## Corpus polarity sweep — 2026-07-28
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.
0839B — sense-reversing-letter (migne, low confidence)
Printed: Rex Ardoinus sceptri moderamine fissus / Regnat in Hesperia, tendit in Ausoniam.
Conjecture: fissus > fisus ("relying on / confident in the governance of the scepter"); the doubled -ss- turns a participle of confidence into one of being split or broken.
The next line of the same distich asserts the opposite of a broken rule: "Regnat in Hesperia, tendit in Ausoniam" — Arduin is reigning and extending his reach, in the dating formula whose whole function is to fix the year 1003 by naming the king then securely on the throne. A king "split by the governance of the scepter" contradicts the very clause it introduces. Our English silently repairs it as "upheld by," which is fisus, not fissus — the printed defect is not visible to an English reader.