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 →
1080C — Ama larius
Migne prints the name broken across a line as Ama larius presbyter. Read as Amalarius (the same author cited by name at 1081C and quoted at length in ch. II); rendered "Amalarius the priest." Broken type, not a variant.
1080C — the Jerome/Comes list
Printed: Dominica quarta ante Natale Domini (quam Ama larius presbyter praeparationem Dominici Adventus nominavit), deinde Dominica quarta ante Natale Domini; Dominica tertia …
Dominica quarta stands twice in succession. The first ought on the argument to be Dominica quinta (the fifth Sunday = Amalarius' "preparation of the Lord's Advent"; Berno's whole point is the five-Sunday reckoning of the Comes against Gregory's four). Rendered as printed, with the repetition intact — the correction is not made in the text. This is the single reading a human read-through should check against another witness, since the numeral carries the argument.
Dating notation kept verbatim
VI Kal. Decemb. (1081B), V Kal. Decemb. / III Nonas (1083A), XI Kal. April. / XV Kal. Febr. (1084C) are left in Migne's abbreviated Roman form, unexpanded and unconverted, because the computistical argument is about the notation itself. Likewise the ordinals of the Sundays (fourth/fifth) and the arithmetic of 4 + 8 + 8 + 23 + 3 = 46 at 1084A are reproduced as reckoned, not recomputed.
1084B–C — chant incipits
Memento, Omnis terra, Adorate, In excelso throno, Domine, ne in ira are introit/responsory incipits, kept in Latin and italicized (they are titles of chants, not quoted sentences). Migne does not italicize them; the italics are editorial in the English only, consistent with the anchor's handling of titles.
Unmarked scripture (no [n:] in this work)
Berno quotes without any note apparatus. All quotations are translated from the Latin as printed, not from a conventional English version — notably Deut. 32:7 (Interroga patrem tuum), the Ezekiel 47 waters (ankles / knees / loins / uncrossable torrent), Jer. 9:21 (Introivit mors per fenestras vestras), Jer. 23:5 (Ecce dies veniunt … germen justum), Rom. 13:11–14, Ps. 24:1 (Ad te levavi animam meam), Isa. 32:20 (Beati, qui seminatis super omnes aquas), Cant. 6:1–2, and Luke 24:42 (assi piscis parte) in Aribo's reply.
1086A–B — Aribo's rescript
sancti examinis sub vestro regimine mellificantis — examen here is the bee-swarm sense (the community "making honey"), continuing the honeycomb figure of the next clause; rendered "the holy company that makes honey." Not corrupt, but easy to misread as examen = examination.