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 →
Merged from two agent batches (chunks 0000–0007 and 0008–0014), 2026-07-28.
Work-wide conventions (reconciled at merge)
- Sense labels are rendered as ADVERBS — ALLEGORICALLY. / HISTORICALLY. / MORALLY. — because Migne's labels in this work are adverbs throughout (Allegorice, Historice, Moraliter, in both capital and small-cap forms). Both batches agreed. Note for the reader-facing question: the adjacent Hugh commentary 11063 (In Abdiam) prints ADJECTIVES — LITERAL. / MORAL. / ALLEGORICAL. — because ITS Latin set is mixed (
LITTERAL.andMORAL.besideALLEGORICE.) and had to be normalized to one series. Each work is faithful to its own plate, which is what Pattern 9 intends, but two adjacent works by the same author will label their senses differently on migne.app. Wilson's call whether that is fidelity or noise. - The running head is "Brief Notes on Joel"; continuation chunks carry "(cont.)", which
build-work-page.mjsmerges away at assembly.
Chunks 0000–0007 only. Chunks 0008–0014 are covered by a separate agent's cruces-0008.md; the two files are merged afterward.
Conventions: Pattern 7 (render the printed Latin literally, never the intended reading), Pattern 8 (punctuation follows the plate), Pattern 9 (attested medieval spellings and gender mismatches are NOT defects), Pattern 10 (carry the whole broken run), Pattern 12 (carried type is marked [sic: …]).
A. Carried type — non-words, marked [sic: …] in the English
These have no English exponent; the run is carried untranslated, in italics, except where it sits inside an already-italic scripture lemma (nested italics are not expressible, so the asterisks are dropped and only the marker remains).
| Chunk | Column | Printed | Conjecture | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0001 | 0326B (pre-anchor) | diecret | diceret | Ac si diecret: — the formula runs Ac si diceret a dozen times elsewhere in the work. Metathesis of c/e. |
| 0001 | 0326B (pre-anchor) | sumno | somno | Expergiscimini … a sumno lethalis negligentiae. |
| 0002 | 0330B | verstri | vestri | Inside the italic lemma de domo Dei verstri sacrificium; the same phrase is printed correctly (Dei vestri) twice within ten lines, in the lemma at 0331D and the repeat at 0332C. Asterisks dropped (lemma already italic). |
| 0003 | 0333D | destructur | destruetur | A, civitas destructur — parallel clauses either side read ducetur and evertetur, both future. |
| 0003 | 0337B | eadent | cadent | Inside the italic Joel 2:9 lemma, Sed et per fenestras eadent. Migne prints cadent correctly at 0341C when Hugh re-quotes the same clause. Asterisks dropped. |
| 0004 | 0339D | baereticae | haereticae | pluviam contra ariditatem baereticae perversitatis — b/h substitution, a common broken-sort defect. |
| 0004 | 0340A | m ne | mane | Split type (Pattern 10). Dies autem haec quasi m ne expansum fuit super montes — mane is printed whole in the lemma at 0336B and again in the gloss at 0340A ("mane illuminatio fidei"), so the reading is certain and the defect is a dropped a sort. Whole run carried, spacing included. |
| 0006 | 0345C | Hincvoce | Hinc voce | Run-together type (Pattern 10). Hincvoce Psalmistae — the formula Hinc voce Psalmistae occurs at 0339C. Both fragments are real words; the run is carried whole. |
| 0006 | 0347A (lemma) | santificate ×2 | sanctificate | santificate jejunium … santificate Ecclesiam, both inside the italic Joel 2:15–16 lemma. Migne prints Sanctificate correctly at 0330B and 0332C. Asterisks dropped. |
| 0007 | 0347C | noxum | noxam | Inside the italic Exod. 32:31–32 lemma, aut dimitte eis hanc noxum. hanc is feminine; noxum is not a Latin form. Asterisks dropped. |
| 0007 | 0347D | expictur | expietur | ut … sacrificio expictur iniquitas. |
| 0007 | 0349A | Del | Dei | scientiam Del plusquam holocaustum (Osee 6:6). i/l substitution. |
| 0007 | 0349B | amplectanda | amplectenda | o virago, amplectanda, mediatrix peccatorum fidissima! Borderline — a/e in the gerundive stem could be argued an orthographic variant rather than broken type, in which case Pattern 9 would exempt it and the marker should be removed. Flagged for a human. |
| 0007 | 0351A | ligagavit | ligavit | ad quatuor aquilarum colla ligagavit — syllable doubled. |
B. Real words, wrong form — rendered as ordinary English, no marker
Per Pattern 12's closing boundary: these can be rendered, so the English on the page is ours even though the reading is Migne's.
- 0001, 0327A —
fortis est victoria sceleris innumerabilis, instantia suggestionis.The comma falls one word late. The preceding sentence sets the pattern (Fortis est gens ista in expugnatione virtutum, innumerabilis assiduitate tentationum), so the intended reading is almost certainly fortis victoria sceleris, innumerabilis instantia suggestionis. Rendered with innumerabilis attached to sceleris, which is the only construable reading of the printed punctuation ("strong it is by the victory of wickedness without number, by the insistence of suggestion"). - 0001, 0329B —
messis agrisfor messis agri. The lemma four lines above prints periit messis agri correctly. Rendered "the harvest for the fields." - 0002, 0330A —
hostiam vivam, sanctum, Deo placentem(Rom. 12:1). Gender mismatch, Pattern 9: no English exponent. Rendered "holy." No marker, and no churn on a later sweep. - 0002, 0331B —
Praefatum infortunium sub alio typo verborum ostendat.Subjunctive where the indicative ostendit is required by the sequence of HISTORICE/ALLEGORICE paragraphs. Rendered as printed ("Let him show…"). - 0003, 0335A —
dissipatae sunt hypothecaefor Vulgate apothecae. Hugh's own gloss thirty lines later readsApothecae, expositorum volumina, so the plate is inconsistent with itself. Rendered "the pledges are scattered" — i.e. the literal sense of hypotheca — while the gloss reads "storehouses." - 0003, 0337A —
usque in anno generationisfor in annos. The same clause is printed usque in annos at 0340C. Rendered "even unto the year." - 0003, 0337A —
et post cum exurens flammafor post eum; eum is printed correctly at 0340D when Hugh re-quotes. Rendered "and after with a burning flame," which is the printed words and is broken English. Deliberate. - 0004, 0339A —
sed disparem potestatem in aequalem dignitatem. Probably inaequalem run apart, but in aequalem is two real words and construes (badly). Rendered "but an unlike power into an equal dignity." - 0005, 0341A —
super capita montium exsiliet(singular) against exsilient in the lemma at 0337A. Rendered singular. - 0005, 0341A —
velut populus fortis praeparatur ad praeliumfor praeparatus. Rendered "is prepared." - 0005, 0341C —
in virtutes Spiritus sancti(Rom. 15:18–19) for in virtute. Rendered "in the powers of the Holy Ghost." - 0005, 0343B —
Vox Domini intercedentis flammam ignis(Psal. 28:7) for intercidentis. Rendered "coming between the flame of fire" rather than the Vulgate's "divideth." - 0006, 0347A —
in manum Dei viventis incidere(Hebr. 10:31) for in manus. Rendered singular. - 0007, 0350A —
contra incursionem et credulitatem hostium. The antithesis series demands crudelitatem (and crudelitas hostium is Hugh's own phrase at 0336B). credulitatem is a real word and is rendered as printed, "the credulity of the enemies."
C. Punctuation and capitalization carried per Pattern 8
- 0000, 0324D —
Sed hanc gens praefata decorticavit, nudavit projecit.The serial comma before projecit is absent; the same clause is printed with it four lines later (decorticavit, nudavit, projecit). No mark supplied: the English reads "barked it, stripped it cast it away." Not dittography — two sentences of exposition intervene, and the repetition is Hugh's resumptive lemma, so no[d: …]. - 0000, 0324D —
ficus, propter dulcedinem gaudiorum aeternorum(nominative in a run of accusatives, terram … vineam … ficus). Case has no English exponent here; rendered normally. - 0000, 0323C —
ficum meum decorticavit(Joel 1:7). Gender mismatch, Pattern 9, no exponent, no marker. - 0002, 0330D —
tertio rationi, Conditioni creator— comma where a full stop is wanted, followed by a capital. Both carried. - 0002, 0330D —
lumen rationis. tuere in sensuali munus formae— lowercase after a full stop. Carried: the English reads "…the light of reason. guard in the sensual…". English does have a capitalization exponent, so Pattern 9's "no exponent" exemption does not apply and Pattern 7 governs. Worth a human's eye: this is the first instance in the corpus, as far as I can find, of sentence-initial case being carried, and it will look like our error. - 0002, 0330D —
sensum tantum habentia [0330D] deinde captivata— no mark before deinde. None supplied. - 0004, 0339C —
alii, quod divisum est, insane confuderunt, Haec fuit haereticorum caligo— comma before a capital. Carried. - 0004, 0340C —
Beati oculi, qui vident quae vos videtis?— question mark closing a statement (Matth. 13:16). Carried. - 0005, 0341C —
usque ad illyricum— proper noun lowercase. Carried lowercase in the English ("as far as illyricum"), same reasoning as 0330D above, and flagged with it: if Wilson prefers capitalization to be normalized as a structural convention (the way Pattern 9 normalizes section labels), both this and tuere should be swept together. - 0005, 0343C —
Vel quis poterit sustinere, pondus irae— comma between verb and object. Carried. - 0006, 0345B —
quae prorsus ad salutem sufficit, Sequitur conversio operis.Comma before a capital. Carried. - 0006, 0345C —
Vestimenta sunt sanctorum exempla, Jubemur itaque— same. Carried. - 0006, 0346A —
Quis, in hoc loco non dubietatem significat, sed charitatem.The comma isolates the lemma word Quis; carried as printed ("Who, in this place does not signify doubt, but charity"). Separately, charitatem is odd in sense — one expects certitudinem — but it is a real word and is rendered. - 0007, 0347C —
…in die ultionis visitabo [n: (Ibid.)] Hinc frequenter…— no terminal stop after the closing italics. None supplied (Pattern 8); the English runs on into "Hence it is frequently read" the same way. - 0007, 0349B —
afflictionem senum squalorem virginum— no comma between the two members. None supplied.
D. Migne's own bracketed matter and his own sic — reproduced, not translated
- 0003, 0334D —
[pastorum vel porcorum]in the Joel 1:18 lemma, and 0003, 0335C —[pecora]in the gloss. Migne's variants; reproduced verbatim, untranslated, per the register rule on[ al., …]. - 0006, 0345C —
accedunt [ an accendunt?]. Migne's editorial query; reproduced verbatim, untranslated. The body word accedunt is translated ("approach") — i.e. the printed reading, not Migne's conjecture. - 0006, 0345D —
multus misericordia [multae misericordiae]. Same; the bracket is reproduced and the body reading translated ("much in mercy"). - 0002, 0333A —
ex affectu plangentis ( sic ). Migne's own sic. Reproduced verbatim as( sic ); per Pattern 12 no[sic: …]of ours is added on top — he flagged it himself.
E. Cases needing a human's judgment
- 0006, 0345C — a citation that never became a note. Migne prints
Instauras, inquit, testes tuos contra me, et multiplicas iram tuam adversum me, et poenae militant in me (Job X)— the locator sits inside the italic quotation with no[n: …]wrapper, unlike the ~110 other citations in this work. Reproduced verbatim in place, untranslated. I did not tag it[f: (Job X)]: Pattern 4's trigger is a work whose citing practice is inline tails, which is not true here — this is a one-off. But it means one genuine fons will not reach the index unless someone decides otherwise. This is the entry most worth a decision.
- 0003, 0336A — displaced punctuation collapses four glosses into two.
bestiae, simplices, et idiotae fontes aquarum; doctores populorum ignis, cupiditas, flamma, luxuria.The series demands bestiae, simplices et idiotae; fontes aquarum, doctores populorum; ignis, cupiditas; flamma, luxuria — four lemma/gloss pairs. As printed, the pairs run together and the English necessarily reads oddly ("the beasts, the simple and the unlettered the fountains of waters; the teachers of the peoples a fire, covetousness, a flame, lust"). Rendered as printed per Patterns 7–8.
- 0004, 0337D —
facies, erat exercitus, ordo, cultus, …. Same class: the comma after facies and the one after exercitus between them destroy the lemma/gloss boundary. Intended almost certainly facies erat exercitus: ordo, cultus, splendor, ritus, forma, modus. Rendered as printed.
- 0005, 0343A —
Etham diabolus … ejus flamma perversarum sunt sectarum genera.flamma (singular) with sunt (plural), and the sense wants flumina — Hugh is glossingtu siccasti fluvios Etham(Psal. 73:15), where fontes has just been glossed and the fluvii are the natural next member. Rendered as printed, "his flame are the kinds of perverse sects."
- 0005, 0342C —
conscientias singulorum, spiritum gratiae et precum obtineant. Two accusatives under one verb where the second is likely ablative (spiritu gratiae et precum obtineant — "obtain… by the spirit of grace and of prayers"), which is what the parallel spiritu fortitudinis dissolvant immediately before suggests. Rendered as printed.
- 0007, 0347C —
in veteri rota.Hinc frequenter legitur in veteri rota, propter Isaac, propter Jacob…. rota ("wheel") is a real word and is rendered, but the sense plainly wants in veteri lege or in veteri Testamento. Possibly nota. Rendered "in the old wheel."
- 0007, 0349D —
Obmutescat canina facundia saecularis eloquentia. Two nominatives in apposition where a genitive is wanted (saecularis eloquentiae). Rendered as printed, "Let the dogged fluency, secular eloquence, be struck dumb."
- 0007, 0348C —
utrumlibet a te ponendo. Unconstruable as printed; the series is a te condito, a te redempto, [a te] …ndo, so a passive participle or gerundive of possession (possidendo?) is wanted. Rendered "in either case to be set by thee," which is as close as the printed words allow.
- 0004, 0340D —
quia vanitatem deserti ipsius redegerunt in contemptum mundi. deserti has no antecedent that yields sense — the apostles are turning the hortus voluptatis into a solitudo deserti, so what they reduce is the vanity of the garden, not of the desert. Possibly horti. Rendered as printed.
F. Deliberate lexical choices (recorded so a sweep does not churn them)
- The four plagues of Joel 1:4 are rendered eruca → caterpillar, locusta → locust, bruchus → grub, following 9741's English of the same verse. Migne prints two words for the fourth plague — aerugo in the lemma, rubigo in every gloss — and the distinction is preserved in English as rust (aerugo) / mildew (rubigo), so that a reader can see which word the plate has where. They denote the same thing; the split is typographic fidelity, not a claim about sense.
- cenodoxia and gastrimargia (0000, 0325B–C) stay in italic Latin per the register rule on technical terms. Hugh glosses the first himself (id est vana gloria), so the English carries his gloss and not ours; the second he leaves unglossed, and so do we.
- praestabilis super malitia (0006, 0343D and the eight glosses at 0345D–0346A) is rendered "prevailing over malice" rather than Douay's "ready to repent of the evil," because Hugh's glosses build on praestare as superiority —
barathrum desperationis in gratiam provehit,desperationem trahit ad poenitentiam— and the conventional English would cut the argument out from under him. - Section labels normalized per Pattern 9:
ALLEGOR.(0004, 0337D) andHistorice.(0007, 0350C) are rendered ALLEGORICALLY / HISTORICALLY like their fully-spelled and fully-capitalized neighbors. The Latin column preserves both forms, so nothing is concealed. JOEL. XI.(0003, 0336A) is a running chapter label for Joel II. Reproduced as printed; not a Pattern 12 case, since it is a numeral, not type.- Attested medieval spellings translated normally, no marker, per Pattern 9: spiritalis (0000, 0326A), maechandum/maecharis (0001, 0328C), penitentiae (0007, 0347C), Hierusalem (0003, 0333D), Isai./Isa. varying in the notes (verbatim either way).
Chunks 0008–0014 only. Chunks 0000–0007 are covered by cruces-0000.md; the two files are merged afterward.
Conventions: Pattern 7 (render the printed Latin literally, never the intended reading), Pattern 8 (punctuation follows the plate), Pattern 9 (attested medieval spellings and gender mismatches are NOT defects), Pattern 10 (carry the whole broken run), Pattern 12 (carried type is marked [sic: …]).
A. Carried type — non-words, marked [sic: …] in the English
Carried untranslated, in italics, except where the run sits inside an already-italic scripture lemma (nested italics are not expressible, so the asterisks are dropped and only the marker remains).
| Chunk | Column | Printed | Conjecture | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0008 | 0353B | Rubignem | Rubiginem | Rubignem dicens: Beati pacifici. Migne prints rubigo in the Joel 2:25 lemma at 0352A and rubiginem correctly in the parallel gloss eight lines earlier ("Contra rubiginem, perfectam patientiam"). Syllable dropped. |
| 0009 | 0357A | sculum | scutum | Inside the italic Thren. 3:65 lemma, Dabis eis, Domine, sculum cordis laborem tuum. Asterisks dropped. |
| 0010 | 0360B | culturom | culturam | ad culturom idolorum compulerunt. Not a Latin form; o/a substitution. |
| 0010 | 0361A | pucilam | puellam | Tunc pucilam, id est, cordis innocentiam vendunt pro vino. puellam is printed correctly in the Joel 3:3 lemma at 0359A and twice in the gloss at 0360C. |
| 0010 | 0361A | dic | die | cum in dic salutis et in tempore placito visitare dignatur oriens ex alto (II Cor. 6:2). Borderline — dic is a real Latin form (imperative of dico), so Pattern 12's closing boundary would send it to section B; but it admits of no construction whatever in the slot (in + accusative singular imperative), so there is nothing to render and it is carried. Flagged for a human: if the ruling is that any real-word form goes to section B, the marker should be removed and the phrase rendered as broken English. |
| 0010 | 0361B | faceritis | faceretis | Inside the italic Joel 3:6 lemma, ut longe faceritis eos de finibus suis. Asterisks dropped. |
| 0011 | 0362B | intepretatur | interpretatur | Saba siquidem intepretatur captivitas. The verb is printed whole at 0362A (interpretantur), 0364D and 0369D. Dropped r. |
| 0012 | 0365B | gloriossima | gloriosissima | gloriosi certaminis gloriossima praemia — the superlative syllable is contracted, and gloriosi stands correctly in the same phrase. |
| 0013 | 0371A | transcunt | transeunt | Non transcunt, inquam, per eam alieni amplius. transeunt is printed correctly two sentences earlier in the same column and in the lemma at 0367D. |
No split-type (Pattern 10) defects occur in this half of the work.
B. Real words, wrong form — rendered as ordinary English, no marker
Per Pattern 12's closing boundary: these can be rendered, so the English on the page is ours even though the reading is Migne's.
- 0008, 0352C —
Torcularia … constantiam inferius, patientiam superius habentia, flatly contradicted four lines later byConstantia siquidem premit, et desuper arcet; patientia inferius jacet et pondus sustinet.The second passage is certainly right (constancy presses from above, patience bears from below); the first is printed with the two adverbs exchanged. Both rendered as printed — this is exactly the class Pattern 7 exists to preserve, since the self-contradiction is visible only if neither half is smoothed. - 0009, 0355B —
Quid est omnis generis universae? scilicet aetatis, omnis conditionis, omnis professionis, universi ordinis.A feminine genitive universae stranded with no noun; the closing member (universi ordinis) shows the construction, so the intended reading is universae scilicet aetatis. Rendered as printed ("What is of every kind, universal? namely of age…"). - 0009, 0356D —
Sanguinem dedit, quando Christus ante passionem prolixius orans, et in agonia factus guttae sanguinis decurrebant in terram.Anacoluthon: Christus is left without a finite verb when the clause switches subject to guttae. Rendered as printed. - 0009, 0357D —
Magnus est Dominus, quia cuncta terrena despicit. The whole paragraph expounds the adjectives of dies Domini magnus et horribilis, and three sentences laterMagnus non pro vitio, sed pro virtute dicituris plainly about the epithet on dies, not about God. Dominus is a real word; rendered "Great is the Lord." - 0010, 0358C —
nihil aliud est nomini Domini invocatiofor nominis. Dative for genitive. Rendered "the calling upon the name of the Lord." - 0010, 0359A —
Capitulum hoc prius moraliter discutiamus; deinde ad opaca allegoriae, et tropologiae jucunda transeamus.What actually follows is the Jewish literal reading and the historical sense; the MORALITER treatment does not arrive until 0360D, and the promised order (allegory then tropology) is the order of the rest of the chapter. historialiter is the near-certain intended reading. Rendered "morally." - 0010, 0360B —
alii Minervam, Rubiginem, Anubim— in this list Rubigo is the Roman mildew-goddess, not the crop-disease glossed in the Joel lemmas. Rendered as the divine name "Rubigo," deliberately breaking with the "mildew" used for rubigo elsewhere in the work. - 0011, 0362A —
Graeci mendaces, falsiloqui homines scilicet, vel motus animi.Nominative plural in apposition inside a run of glosses otherwise built on bare predication. Rendered as printed. - 0011, 0362B —
quia praefatos praefate purificatos odio peccati, abjectioni sui contemptui mundi applicant.Three datives with no conjunction between the second and third, and the adverb praefate is rare to the point of being suspect. Rendered as printed. - 0012, 0365C —
Populi, populi in valle concisionis id est in humilitate judicii, in discretione fidei, vita est quaerenda salutis causa, justitiae summa.vita stands where the sense wants ibi ("there is to be sought the cause of salvation, the sum of righteousness"). Rendered as printed, with vita as the subject of quaerenda. - 0012, 0366B —
Coeptam sequamur ultionem, et de ultimo adventu explanationem.The paragraph resumes an exposition, not a vengeance; the parallel member (explanationem) suggests something like editionem or a dropped word. Rendered "Let us follow up the vengeance begun." - 0013, 0369A —
evangelica doctrina gentilem populum ad finem initiavit, ad credulitatem convertit, ad baptismi gratiam perduxit.The triad wants ad fidem; ad finem is a real phrase and is rendered ("initiated the Gentile people unto the end"). - 0013, 0369B —
pro eo quod inique in filios Judaei egerint(Joel 3:19) for the Vulgate's in filios Juda. Rendered "against the children of the Jew," taking Judaei as genitive singular — the only reading the printed words allow after in filios. - 0010, 0360A — Migne's locators
[n: (Galat. VI)]on Rom. 6:3 and[n: (Ibid.)]on Gal. 6:17, and 0012, 0364D[n: (Joel. IX)]on Joel 3:12. Note contents are verbatim per the marker rule; recorded here only so that the indexer'srefKeyresolution is not surprised by three misfires in one work.
C. Punctuation carried per Pattern 8
- 0011, 0364B —
Per devotionem: compunctionis potestatem et gratiam comminationis Sequitur: Infirmus dicat:— the colon falls after devotionem where it belongs after compunctionis, and there is no stop at all before Sequitur. Both carried; the English reads "Through devotion: the power of compunction and the grace of threatening There follows:". - 0012, 0365D —
stellae, caeterae potestates Sol vero et luna in humilitate judicii obtenebrati sunt— no stop before the capitalized Sol. None supplied: "the stars, the other powers The sun and the moon indeed…". This is the ugliest instance in my half and the one most likely to be read as our error. - 0012, 0365C and the lemma at 0011, 0362D —
in valle concisionis id estandin valle concisionis quia juxta est dies Domini, both without the comma the construction wants. None supplied. - 0014, 0371B —
demum ad contemplationis avolat, dicens. Quid enim mihi est in coelo?— a full stop where the formula everywhere else in the work takes a colon before the quotation. Carried. - 0014, 0372B —
Qui trinus et unus vivit, et regnat Amen.— no stop before Amen. Carried; the doxology ends "liveth and reigneth Amen." - 0010, 0359C —
Quia ecce in diebus illis, et in tempore illo,--et iste versiculus praecedentibus inferiora connectens— Migne's dash, reproduced as the source prints it (--).
D. Migne's own bracketed matter — reproduced, not translated
- 0013, 0369C —
Et mundabo sanguinem eorum, quem non mundaverant [quem non mundaveram]in the Joel 3:21 lemma. Migne's variant reading; reproduced verbatim, untranslated, per the register rule on[ al., …]. The body reading mundaverant is the one translated ("which they had not cleansed"), and Hugh's own gloss twelve lines later confirms it (quem mundare non potuerant).
E. Cases needing a human's judgment
- Citations printed inside the quotation with no
[n: …]wrapper — two more instances, both split by a column anchor.cruces-0000.md§E.1 flags the first (0345C, Job X). My half has: - 0008, 0353D —…sicut disposuit mihi Pater meus, regnum (Luc. [0353D] XXII), etc.- 0013, 0370B —…quoniam priora transierunt (Apoc. [0370B] XXI).
Both reproduced verbatim in place, untranslated, and not tagged [f: …], on the same reasoning the peer gives: Pattern 4's trigger is a work whose citing practice is inline tails, which this is not. But there are now three in one work, all of them genuine fontes that will not reach the index. Note also that in both cases the anchor falls inside the citation, between the book abbreviation and the numeral — this is the one anchor placement in my seven chunks that breaks a construction, and it is Migne's own line break, not a chunking artifact.
- 0008, 0354C —
Unde infula dicitur quasi intus fula. fula is not a Latin word, which by the letter of Pattern 12 would make it carried type. It is not: it is Hugh's own etymological splitting of infula, the second half of a deliberate nonce-division, and marking it[sic: …]would blame Migne for the author's wordplay. Left in italics with no marker, alongside the infula it explains. The rulebook does not state this boundary (author's nonce-form vs. compositor's non-word) and probably should.
- 0013, 0368B — the Greek etymology of agios.
Quod sanctum dicitur Latine, ἄγιος, id est agios dicitur Graece. Agios nomen est compositum ex α et γῆ, id est gi Gi, dicitur terra, a sine.The Greek is reproduced verbatim; the etymological Latin words are left untranslated; and the typography is carried exactly as printed —giroman, thenGi,italic, with no stop between them, which is why the English sentence runs together. No[sic: …]: gi is Hugh's transliteration, not broken type. Same class as item 2.
- 0014, 0371B —
demum ad contemplationis avolat. A genitive with no governing noun. The sentence's own opening gloss supplies the obvious word (contemplationum sublimia, five lines above), so the intended reading is near-certain — but a dangling genitive has no English exponent: any rendering either supplies the noun (silent emendation) or produces a phrase English cannot form. Rendered "at last she flies away to those of contemplation," which is the least-supplied option I could find. Worth a ruling, because the class (Latin genitive with elided head noun) will recur.
- 0010, 0361A — the
dicmarker. See section A. The only place in my half where I put a[sic: …]around a form that is technically a real Latin word.
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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). 5 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.
0327B — added-negative (migne, medium confidence)
Printed: Rami sunt animae desideria, per quae extenditur usque ad [0327B] opera: qui albi facti sunt, quando nativum virtutis colorem non amittunt.
Conjecture: quando nativum virtutis colorem amittunt (delete non)
The lemma being glossed is a devastation image, and Hugh has just glossed the whole clause negatively in the two sentences immediately preceding: 'Sed hanc gens praefata decorticavit, nudavit, projecit. Decorticavit actu, nudavit sensu, projecit affectu. Actu probitatis, sensu honestatis, affectu bonitatis.' The branches are whitened (barked bare) precisely BY the enemy's stripping, i.e. when the desires lose the native green of virtue; as printed the gloss makes whitening the mark of virtue retained. Compare the parallel gloss on the same lemma at 0325A: 'quia persecutione ingravescente tepuerunt exercitia religionis, siluerunt verba praedicationis, virtutum merita attenuata sunt in multis.'
0339B — sense-reversing-letter (migne, medium confidence)
Printed: Nonnulli in divinitate Deitatis unitatem, sed disparem potestatem in aequalem dignitatem.
Conjecture: sed disparem potestatem, inaequalem dignitatem (word-division: inaequalem set as 'in aequalem')
The clause pairs 'disparem potestatem' (unlike power) with 'aequalem dignitatem' (equal dignity) in the same breath, and the very next sentence sets the opposite party against it: 'Plerique omnium aequalitatem, sed naturae negaverunt unitatem' — the group that granted EQUALITY is the other one, which denied unity of nature. The subordinationist group here must deny both equal power and equal dignity while holding the unity of Deity; 'in aequalem' is 'inaequalem' broken across a word division.
0341D — dropped-word (migne, medium confidence)
Printed: Sic cadendo non demoliuntur, sed potius eriguntur et consolidantur, juxta illud: Omnis qui se exaltat, humiliabitur [n: (Luc. XIV)].
Conjecture: juxta illud: et qui se humiliat, exaltabitur (Luc. XIV, 11b) — the second half of the verse, dropped or displaced by the first
The proof-text is adduced to support the immediately preceding clause 'sed potius eriguntur et consolidantur' — men who fall down (humble themselves) are raised up. As printed, the verse-half quoted asserts the reverse movement (the self-exalter is humbled), which supports nothing in the sentence it is attached to; the required half is 'qui se humiliat, exaltabitur'. The whole surrounding passage is about apostolic men who 'devota horum consideratione, Creatori sese humiliter prosternunt' and are thereby 'not broken'.
0352D — sense-reversing-letter (migne, high confidence)
Printed: Torcularia, ipsa sunt corda inter spem et timorem posita, constantiam inferius, patientiam superius habentia; constantiam in tentatione, patientiam in tribulatione…
Conjecture: constantiam SUPERIUS, patientiam INFERIUS habentia — the two adverbs are transposed in Migne's plate
The very next sentences state the opposite arrangement and are internally consistent with the wine-press image: 'Constantia siquidem premit, et DESUPER arcet; patientia INFERIUS jacet et pondus sustinet' ('For constancy presses down and holds off from above; patience lies beneath and bears the weight'). Constancy cannot be 'below' in one clause and press 'from above' two clauses later; in a torcular the upper beam presses and the lower part bears the weight.
0369A — sense-reversing-letter (migne, medium confidence)
Printed: quando per apostolos et eorum successores evangelica doctrina gentilem populum ad finem initiavit, ad credulitatem convertit, ad baptismi gratiam perduxit
Conjecture: ad FIDEM initiavit (one letter: fidem → finem)
'initiavit' means to begin/initiate, so 'ad finem initiavit' asserts an initiation unto the END — the reverse of what the verb requires; and the two parallel members that follow both name the entry-stages of conversion, 'ad credulitatem convertit, ad baptismi gratiam perduxit' (converted to belief, led to the grace of baptism). The triad is fides → credulitas → baptismus, not 'end'.