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 corrupt printed readings, rendered literally in the English and logged here.
Chunk 0
- 1122D — Anchor sequence anomaly, not a textual crux: the column following [1121D] is printed as 1122D, skipping 1122A–C. Reproduced verbatim per the marker rule, but a human should confirm against the plate whether this is a Migne typo for 1122A.
- 1123B — melior est finis orationis quam principium [n: (Eccl. XVII, 9)]. The verse is Ecclesiastes 7:8, and the Vulgate reads finis orationis ("of the speech/discourse") — Odo builds his argument on the "prayer/discourse" ambiguity. Rendered "the end of prayer is better than the beginning" as printed; the citation Eccl. XVII, 9 is wrong (chapter XVII for VII) but passes through verbatim per the marker rule. Cf. the same quotation at 1126C in chunk 1, where Migne cites it correctly as Eccles. VII, 9.
- 1124D — Si quidem per speciem saepe genus subintelligitur: "the genus is often understood through the species." The illustration Odo gives runs the other way (wheat, a species, standing for bodily goods generally), so genus and species appear transposed. Rendered as printed.
Chunk 1
- 1126B — Printed: Oro iniquitate vidi tentoria Aethiopiae. Oro is a real Latin word ("I pray"), so it is rendered as printed: "I pray, by iniquity I saw the tents of Ethiopia," the bare ablative iniquitate left to stand without the preposition. The intended reading is certainly Pro iniquitate ("for iniquity") — the P has dropped to O: Odo's own exposition in the very next clause reads pro divitiis captandis, and he repeats the lemma correctly at 1126C as pro iniquitate tentoria Aethiopiae, where the English does give "for iniquity." An earlier draft rendered the conjecture here; that has been withdrawn.
- 1126D — Hostiae impiorum abominabiles [n: (Prov. II, 2)]. The verse is Proverbs 21:27; the printed citation Prov. II, 2 is wrong. Citation passes through verbatim per the marker rule.
- 1127B → 1128A — Anchor sequence gap: columns 1127C and 1127D are not marked, the text running straight from [1127B] to [1128A] mid-sentence. Reproduced as printed; worth a check against the plate for dropped text.
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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.
1126B — sense-reversing-letter (migne, low confidence)
Printed: Unde scriptum est: Oro iniquitate vidi tentoria Aethiopiae [n: (Habac. III, 7)], id est pro divitiis captandis vidi homines factos tabernacula nigredinis
Conjecture: Pro iniquitate vidi tentoria Aethiopiae (Vulg. Habac. III, 7); Migne's plate sets O for P, and the English then reads the corrupt word as the verb oro, 'I pray', producing a clause the Latin never asserts and dissolving the causal 'for the sake of' the whole gloss depends on.
Odo re-quotes the same verse eleven lines later with the preposition intact — 'Hi fiunt pro iniquitate tentoria Aethiopiae' — and his own gloss on the first quotation glosses the missing preposition as causal: 'id est pro divitiis captandis'. The immediate neighbour therefore requires 'pro iniquitate', not a verb of praying.