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.
0945B (chunk 0) — misattributed citation
- Printed: quem non suscitavit [n: (I Cor. III)]
- Note: The quotation is 1 Cor. 15:14–15, not chapter 3. Migne's note is reproduced verbatim per the marker rule; the error is logged here only. Worth a check at index time so the scripture record is not keyed to 1 Cor. 3.
0947D (chunk 0) — misattributed citation
- Printed: noctu vero in monte orationibus insistebat [n: (Luc. XXI)]
- Note: The detail (teaching by day in the temple, lodging by night on the Mount of Olives) is Luke 21:37, so the chapter number is right; flagged only because Migne gives no verse where the surrounding notes do. No change.
0948A (chunk 0) — Psalm numbering and place-name
- Printed: de terra Jordanis et Hermoniim, a monte modico [n: (Psal. XLI, 7)]
- Note: Vulgate Ps. 41:7 (Hebrew 42:6). Hermoniim is the Vulgate's transliterated plural; kept as printed rather than normalized to "Hermon."
0950B (chunk 2, opening) — historical difficulty, not a typographical one
- Printed: Papa Gerbertus juxta Caesenam castrametatus erat
- Note: Rendered literally, "Pope Gerbert had encamped beside Cesena." Gerbert of Aurillac reigned as Sylvester II (999–1003); a pope personally encamped in a siege of Cesena is not otherwise attested, and the sentence is ambiguous as to whether the besieging armies are his or his opponents' (ejusque oppidum circumfusi exercitus obsidione vallabant — "his town", antecedent unclear). Left as Migne prints it. Worth a human read-through.
0947D (chunk 0) — place-name
- Printed: Vocabatur autem saltus Spatiani
- Note: Rendered "the woodland of Spatianus." Saltus here is the wooded upland, matching nemorosa diversarum arborum densitate vestitus below. The site is the later Monte Maurizio near Cesena.
0951A (chunk 2) — saint's name
- Printed: in festivitate sancti Rophilli
- Note: Rophillus = Rufillus, first bishop of Forlimpopoli. Migne's spelling kept in the Latin; the English gives "Saint Rufillus," the standard English form of the same name. Flagged in case the project prefers strict transliteration ("Rophillus") for saints' names.
0952A (chunk 2) — place-name
- Printed: Popiliensis dioeceseos
- Note: Rendered "the diocese of Forlimpopoli" (Forum Popili). Also dioeceseos is a Greek-form genitive; not an error.
Chapter-numbering style (not an error)
As in 10047, chunk 0's second head is CAPUT PRIMUM spelled out while chunks 1–2 use CAPUT II / CAPUT III. The English follows Migne exactly.
Inline Migne page numbers
419, 420, 421, 422, 423, 424, 425 are reproduced in italic in place. 419 at col. 0945B falls inside the scriptural quotation, splitting its italic run in three, exactly as Migne prints it.