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 →
Garbled or irregular printed readings in Migne (PL 144), rendered literally in the English per the register rules, and logged here.
1029D (chunk 1)
- Printed: ut Christani diis litent
- Note: Misprint for Christiani. Rendered "Christians."
1027C (chunk 0) — citation to verify
- Printed: te impune iturum [n: (I Cor. III, VI)]
- Note: Reproduced verbatim per the marker rule. The reference is loose: "the temple of God, which we are" answers to 1 Cor. 3:16–17, and the chastity argument to 1 Cor. 6:19; Migne's compressed "III, VI" evidently points at both chapters rather than chapter 3 verse 6. Not corrected.
1031B–1032A (chunk 2) — grammatical incoherence in the printed text
- Printed: inito cum suis consilio, jumentum abire sinunt, pro certo sciens eum locum a sanctis electum
- Note: sinunt (plural) followed by sciens (singular participle). Both are real Latin forms, so both are rendered as printed and the mismatch is carried into the English: "they let the beast go, he knowing for certain." The intended reading is presumably the plural scientes, since the subject of sinunt is the bishop together with his men (inito cum suis consilio); but the singular may equally be an author's slip back to antistes alone, and either way the printed mismatch stands. An earlier draft smoothed this by rendering the participle as a plural; that emendation has been withdrawn.
1027A–1027B (chunk 0) — proper name, flagged for the read-through
- Printed: rex barbarus, nomine Eugegius
- Note: The name is spelled Eugegius / Eugegio throughout, and so transliterated consistently as "Eugegius." Other witnesses to this passio give Eugenius; Migne's form is kept.
Chapter-numbering style (not an error)
Chunk 0's second head is CAPUT PRIMUM (spelled out), while chunks 1 and 2 use CAPUT II and CAPUT III (numerals). The English follows Migne's inconsistency exactly: "CHAPTER ONE", then "CHAPTER II", "CHAPTER III".
Inline Migne page numbers
501, 502, 503,, 504, 505, 506, 507 are reproduced in italic in place. Note 503, at col. 1027C carries its comma inside the italic run as Migne prints it, and 507 at 1032B falls inside the closing italic paragraph, splitting it into three italic runs; both are reproduced as printed.