De sacramentis legis naturalis et scriptae

## Convention — speaker labels (chunk 0000, col 0017C onward)

• Reading (as printed): D. Quid fuit priusquam mundus fieret? M. Solus Deus.
• Note: The work is a dialogue and Migne labels the speakers with bare initials, D. (Discipulus) and M. (Magister). The English initials of the house terms coincide exactly — Disciple / Master — so the labels are reproduced as D. and M. unchanged in all nine chunks. Nothing is expanded and nothing is invented; the plate's abbreviation stands. Fixed here per the 11066 speaker-label precedent and held to the end of the work.

## Convention — sacramental vocabulary (chunks 0000–0008)

• Note: Equivalents fixed at first occurrence and held across all nine chunks: sacramentum = sacrament; signum = sign; signaculum = little sign; res = reality (technical: sacrae rei signum = "the sign of a sacred reality"; res sive virtus sacramenti = "the reality or the power of the sacrament"; res et virtus sacramenti = "the reality and the power of the sacrament"); virtus = power; figura = figure; umbra = shadow; imago = image; institutio = institution; similitudo = likeness; efficacia = efficacy; conferre = to confer; significatio = signification; sanctificatio = sanctification; gratia = grace; remedium = remedy; medicamentum = medicine; lex naturalis = the natural law; lex scripta = the written law; tempus gratiae = the time of grace; oblatio = oblation; sacrificium = sacrifice; circumcisio = circumcision. The four opera of 0021A are kept distinct: opus creationis = work of creation, opus dispositionis = work of disposition, opus propagationis = work of propagation, opus gubernationis = work of governance; opera conditionis (0020C) = "the works of the founding," to keep it separate from creationis. In the anthropology: appetitus justi/justitiae = appetite for the just / for justice, appetitus commodi = appetite for the advantageous, commodum = advantage, praeceptum naturae / disciplinae = the precept of nature / of discipline, concessio = concession.

## Col 0017C (chunk 0000)

• Reading (as printed): D. Quomodo factus est mundus. M. Prius in materia…
• Note: A full stop closes what the parallel series of questions (Quando… Ubi… Unde… Quomodo…) makes a question; every neighbouring member takes ?. Per Pattern 8 the printed mark is preserved: "D. How was the world made. M. …". No ? supplied.

## Cols 0017D → 0018C (chunk 0000)

• Reading (as printed): the anchor sequence runs [0017D] … [0018C].
• Note: Columns 0018A–B are absent from the text stream (Migne's prefatory matter/notes occupy them on the plate). Not a defect and not an omission on our side; the anchors are reproduced in the printed order. Recorded so a later continuity check does not read it as a dropped column.

## Col 0020A (chunk 0000)

• Reading (as printed): unde et nunc ad omnes terrarum partes per thracones et alveos suos derivantur
• Note: thracones is not a word I can attest in medieval Latin lexica (the sense required is "channels, conduits," parallel to alveos; possibly a compositor's mangling of tracones or of a Greek-derived term). Per Pattern 7's non-word carve-out it is carried into the English untranslated and in italics: "through their thracones and their channels." If it is later shown to be an attested form, this entry should be reversed under Pattern 9, not churned silently.

## Col 0020D (chunk 0000)

• Reading (as printed): tribus primis diebus disponens et ordinans, tribus sequentibus exordinans
• Note: exordinans is a formed Latin word (ex- + ordino) and so is rendered rather than carried through, but the sentence's own continuation supplies the intended reading: quarta exornans coelos — the three "following" days are the days of adorning (exornans), not of a second ordering, and disponens et ordinans has just been used of the first three. Rendered as printed: "setting out in order in the three following." Intended reading: exornans, "adorning."

## Col 0021C (chunk 0000)

• Reading (as printed): neque ordinem unversitatis in aliquo commutavit
• Note: unversitatis is not a word — a dropped i in universitatis, and the correct form stands in the immediately preceding clause (numero universitatis). Per Pattern 7 the non-word is carried into the English untranslated and in italics: "nor did he change the order of the unversitatis in anything."

## Col 0021C (chunk 0000)

• Reading (as printed): Nihil tamen novum addici dicitur
• Note: addici is a real Latin form (present passive infinitive of addico, "to be adjudged, awarded"), so Pattern 7 governs and the non-word carve-out does not apply: rendered "nothing new is said to be adjudged." The argument plainly wants addi ("to be added") — the question being answered is whether daily-created souls add anything to the universe, and the preceding sentence reads neque aliquid postmodum numero universitatis addidit. The conjecture stays here.

## Col 0021C (chunk 0000)

• Reading (as printed): D. Et quid quod adhuc quotidie novae creantur animae.
• Note: A full stop closes an interrogative (quid quod…). Preserved per Pattern 8; no ? supplied.

## Col 0022C–D (chunk 0001)

• Reading (as printed): D. Qnare hoc voluit? M. Ad [0022D] retundendam superbiam diaboli.
• Note: Qnare is not a word — an n/u inversion of Quare, which is printed correctly in the surrounding questions. Per Pattern 7 it is carried into the English untranslated and in italics: "D. Qnare did he will this?"

## Col 0023B (chunk 0001)

• Reading (as printed): cum illud ejus quod de nihilo factum esse multo majus sit quam id quod de viri substantia in corpus illius transivit
• Note: factum esse (infinitive) stands where the relative clause requires a finite verb (factum est); as printed the clause has no governing verb of saying to hold the accusative-and-infinitive. Rendered as closely as the printed words allow — "since that part of her which was made out of nothing is much greater than that which passed over from the substance of the man into her body" — with the defect recorded here rather than marked in the text.

## Col 0025A (chunk 0002)

• Reading (as printed): tanto gravius plectendus crat, quanto leviori impulsu fuerat prostratus
• Note: crat is not a word — e/c substitution for erat. Per Pattern 7 it is carried into the English untranslated and in italics: "crat so much the more grievously to be punished, by how much the lighter the impulse by which he had been laid low."

## Col 0025D (chunk 0002)

• Reading (as printed): quatenus homo vel illo solo amisso hujus et illius affectus perderet; vel illo solo retento hujus et illius effectum retineret
• Note: affectus in the first limb against effectum in the second breaks a deliberately exact antithesis, and the whole preceding sentence turns on effectum suum twice (illi effectum suum… isti vero effectum suum). affectus is a real word, so Pattern 7 governs and it is rendered: "should lose the affection of both the one and the other… should keep the effect of both the one and the other." Intended reading: effectum.

## Col 0027B (chunk 0002)

• Reading (as printed): D. Non potest inordinare non appetere? M. Non potest.
• Note: As printed the question is not construable: inordinare is the infinitive of inordino ("to disorder"), which cannot govern or be governed by non appetere here. Rendered as closely as the printed words allow — "Is he not able to disorder, not to desire?" The intended reading is the adverb inordinate, which stands correctly in the Master's immediately preceding answer (sed quod inordinate appetit): "Can he not avoid desiring in a disordered way?" No emendation made in the text.

## Col 0028A (chunk 0003)

• Reading (as printed): M. Quatuor sunt loquar: unus in quo est solum bonum…
• Note: Unconstruable as printed — a finite loquar ("I shall speak") stands where the four following masculine members (unus… unus… unus… unus, answered by in coelo… in inferno… in paradiso… in mundo) require a noun, i.e. Quatuor sunt loca, "There are four places." Rendered as printed with a dash marking the break: "There are four — I shall speak:". Intended reading: loca.

## Col 0029C (chunk 0004)

• Reading (as printed): injuste autem quantum pertinet ab diaboli fraudulentiam
• Note: ab + accusative, against the exactly parallel preceding clause quantum pertinet ad culpam suam. ab is a real word, so Pattern 7 governs and the printed preposition is rendered: "but unjustly so far as pertains from the deceitfulness of the devil." Intended reading: ad.

## Col 0030A (chunk 0004)

• Reading (as printed): sicut Isaias ait: Puer natus est nobis [n: (Isa. II)], etc.
• Note: Migne's note locates Puer natus est nobis at Isaiah II; the verse is Isaiah 9:6. The note is reproduced verbatim per the marker rule (refDisplay keeps what Migne prints); no correction is made in the text or in the note. Recorded so the indexer's resolution is a documented inference, not a silent fix.

## Col 0030B (chunk 0004)

• Reading (as printed): Ideo in nativitate Christi angeli pacem munde nuntiant
• Note: munde is a real Latin adverb ("cleanly, purely") and is therefore rendered rather than carried through: "the angels announce peace purely." The sense the passage requires — and the quotation immediately following (in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis) — is the dative mundo, "announce peace to the world." This is a case where Pattern 7 produces a genuinely misleading English sentence. Updated 2026-08-15: the conjecture is no longer parked here alone. Wilson ruled that an additive gloss may stand beside a real printed word whose faithful English asserts what the author did not, so the page now reads peace purely [cj: munde; read mundo, "to the world"] — Migne's word keeps its English and ours stands beside it. See translation-style.md Pattern 18; this is the convention's founding site and, so far, its only application.

## Col 0031B (chunk 0004)

• Reading (as printed): Judicium secundum operationem imago quodammodo est sacramentum judicii secundum retributionem
• Note: Two nominatives (imago… sacramentum) share one copula with no connective. Rendered as apposition without supplying a conjunction (Pattern 8 forbids adding the mark or word the plate lacks): "is in a certain way an image, a sacrament of the judgment according to retribution." A reader may prefer imago quodammodo et sacramentum; that would be a supplement, so it stays here.

## Col 0031C (chunk 0005)

• Reading (as printed): humana natura… in Christo renovata quasi ad juventutis robur refleruit
• Note: refleruit is not a word — for refloruit, "flowered again" (the metaphor is fixed by senuerat … ad juventutis robur). Per Pattern 7 it is carried into the English untranslated and in italics: "renewed in Christ refleruit as it were unto the strength of youth."

## Col 0031D (chunk 0005)

• Reading (as printed): Quid Verbum incarnatum dixerim, nisi regem qui hunc mundum intravit… expulsurus.
• Note: A rhetorical question (Quid… dixerim, nisi…) closed with a full stop. Preserved per Pattern 8; no ? supplied.

## Col 0031D (chunk 0005)

• Reading (as printed): Et quid omnes priores sanctos… appellaverim, nisi milites quosdam optimos… praecincti.
• Note: Second instance of the same construction in the same passage — rhetorical question closed with a full stop. Preserved; no ? supplied.

## Col 0032A (chunk 0005)

• Reading (as printed): Quid item eos qui post incarnationem usque ad finem electi subsequuntur, nisi milites alios… et contra diabolum pugnaturi.
• Note: Third instance in the same passage — rhetorical question closed with a full stop. Preserved; no ? supplied.

## Col 0032B (chunk 0005)

• Reading (as printed): qui secundum concupiscentiam in qua nati sunt ambulant, Homines scriptae legis sunt ii qui…
• Note: A comma, not a full stop, stands before a capitalised new sentence, breaking the three-member series (Homines naturalis legis… Homines scriptae legis… Homines gratiae…). Per Pattern 8 the comma is preserved and no stop is supplied: "…in which they were born, Men of the written law are those who…".

## Col 0032C (chunk 0005)

• Reading (as printed): tempus naturalis legis ad aperte malos pertinet; qui illi tunc et numero plures et statu excellentiores fuerunt
• Note: qui illi doubles the pronoun where the parallel clauses later in the passage carry a bare relative (qui modo etiamsi numero plures non sint). Rendered as printed: "who then were both more in number and more excellent in state." Whether illi is a stray or an emphatic is not decidable from the plate; no word is dropped.

## Col 0033B (chunk 0006)

• Reading (as printed): « Proposuit et diabolus sacramenta sua… una Christi, altera diaboli. »
• Note: Migne opens and closes a guillemet pair around a stretch of Hugh's own continuing exposition — there is no named source, no inquit, and the sentences before and after it are in the same voice. It is most likely a set-off of a much-excerpted passage rather than a quotation proper. Per Pattern 6 the marks are reproduced 1:1 exactly where Migne places them; they are not demoted to straight quotes and nothing is added or removed. This is the work's only guillemet pair.

## Col 0033C (chunk 0006)

• Reading (as printed): Verum haec maligni versutia machinatio, divinae misericordiae dispensatio fuit
• Note: versutia machinatio is two nominatives in asyndeton where the sense wants a genitive (versutiae machinatio, "the contrivance of the malign one's craft"). Rendered as apposition without supplying a connective: "But this contrivance, the craft of the malign one, was the dispensation of divine mercy."

## Col 0034D (chunk 0006)

• Reading (as printed): D. Ergo in ommni sacramento plus esse credendum est
• Note: ommni is not a word — doubled m for omni. Per Pattern 7 it is carried into the English untranslated and in italics: "in ommni sacrament."

## Col 0035A (chunk 0006)

• Reading (as printed): Si quis sacramenta priore effectum sanctificationis habuisse negaverit
• Note: priore is an ablative singular attached to the accusative plural sacramenta; the required form is priora. English adjectives carry no exponent for Latin case or number, so — as with the gender class in Pattern 9 — there is no emendation to make and none to undo: "that the earlier sacraments had the effect of sanctification." Marked so a later sweep does not churn it.

## Col 0035A (chunk 0006)

• Reading (as printed): ut videlicet simul et ex institutione significat, et ex similitudine repraesentet, et conferat ex sanctificatione
• Note: Indicative significat inside a ut videlicet clause whose two other members are subjunctive (repraesentet, conferat). English has no exponent for the Latin mood contrast in this construction, so all three are rendered alike ("signifies… represents… confers"). Nothing emended; logged so the mismatch is attributed to the plate.

## Col 0035B (chunk 0006)

• Reading (as printed): in fide robur in sacramentis fidei arma, in operibus bonis tela accipientes
• Note: The comma that the three-member series requires after robur is absent, though the second one is present. Per Pattern 8 the printed punctuation is reproduced exactly: "receiving strength in faith arms in the sacraments of faith, darts in good works." No comma supplied.

## Col 0038D (chunk 0007)

• Reading (as printed): quem in ipso ot per ipsum sacramentum adipiscitur
• Note: ot is not a word — o/e substitution for et. Per Pattern 7 it is carried into the English untranslated and in italics: "(which in it ot through it the sacrament obtains)."

## Col 0039B (chunk 0007)

• Reading (as printed): cum lex subintrasset, et disciplinam vivendi arctiorem proponeret coepit ex iis quae media erant quaedam excipere
• Note: No comma before the main verb coepit, closing the two-member cum clause. Preserved per Pattern 8; no mark supplied: "…and was setting forth a stricter discipline of living it began to except…".

## Col 0039C (chunk 0008)

• Reading (as printed): Non maechaberis
• Note: Not a defect. maechaberis for moechaberis is the routine medieval ae/oe interchange, attested throughout the period, and falls under Pattern 9's first class: translated normally, no italics, no carry-through — "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Logged only so a later sweep does not mistake it for a Pattern 7 case.

## Col 0039C–D (chunk 0008)

• Reading (as printed): D. Quare de non faciendis unum tantum praeceptum datum est, et de faciendis plura?
• Note: The two halves are inverted against the sentence immediately preceding, which has just enumerated one precept (Honora patrem tuum…, secundum praeceptionem) and six prohibitions (sex alia secundum prohibitionem) — so the single precept concerns things to be done and the many concern things not to be done. The Master's answer confirms the correct direction (in malis cavendis… singulatim instruendus erat, ad bona vero agenda ad obedientiam solummodo revocandus). Rendered exactly as printed: "Why was one precept only given concerning things not to be done, and more concerning things to be done?" The transposition is Migne's; it is not smoothed.

## Col 0040B (chunk 0008)

• Reading (as printed): dum homo per agnitionem amplius illuminatur et inflammatur perdilectionem
• Note: perdilectionem is a run-together of per dilectionem ("through love") — Pattern 10's word-division class, the same defect as a split run. The whole broken run is carried into the English untranslated and in italics, spacing as printed: "the more enlightened through acknowledgment and inflamed perdilectionem."

## Cols 0041B → 0042A (chunk 0008)

• Reading (as printed): the anchor sequence runs [0041B] … [0042A].
• Note: Columns 0041C–D are absent from the text stream. As at 0018A–B above, this is the plate/TEI, not an omission on our side; the anchors are reproduced in the printed order. Recorded for the continuity check.

## Col 0042A (chunk 0008)

• Reading (as printed): de quo dicit Apostolus: Petra autem erat Christus [n: (I Cor. X)], qui tollit peccata mundi [n: (Joan. I)]
• Note: Migne runs two texts together under one attribution to "the Apostle": 1 Cor. 10:4 followed, without a new attribution, by John 1:29 (the Baptist's words, not Paul's). Both italic runs and both notes are reproduced verbatim and in order; the misattribution of the second clause is Migne's and is not corrected in the text.

<!-- corpus-polarity-sweep 2026-07-28 --> ## Corpus polarity sweep — 2026-07-28

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). 2 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.

0027A — dropped-non (migne, medium confidence)

Printed: Itaque prudentia carnis tam labor quam oblectamentum et exercitatio futura foret si homo justitiam tenuisset.

Conjecture: Itaque providentia carnis NON TAM labor quam oblectamentum et exercitatio futura foret — 'the care of the flesh would have been not so much a labor as a delight and an exercise'.

The immediately preceding sentence excludes labor by name: 'Rursum ne vel in illis quaerendis LABOR esset, vel in sumendis periculum, indigentiam simul et appetitum carnalem certa mensura temperavit; quatenus ei ad fomentum et pauca sufficere possent' ('Again, lest either there should be labor in seeking those things, or peril in taking them, he tempered by a fixed measure both the need and the carnal appetite'). God's tempering was precisely so that provisioning the body would NOT be labor; the printed 'tam labor quam oblectamentum' asserts the opposite of the clause it is drawn from. The whole point of the paragraph is that toil in feeding the body arrived only as the penalty of sin ('idcirco meruit ut jam subtus per infinitos labores dissipatus'), i.e. exactly when man did NOT keep justice.

0039D — added-negative (migne, high confidence)

Printed: D. Quare de non faciendis unum tantum praeceptum datum est, et de faciendis plura?

Conjecture: Quare de faciendis unum tantum praeceptum datum est, et de non faciendis plura? — the 'non' belongs on the second member, not the first.

The sentence immediately before it has just counted them the other way: 'Primum erat: Honora patrem tuum et matrem tuam ... secundum: Non occides; tertium: Non maechaberis ... Primum secundum praeceptionem factum est; SEX ALIA secundum prohibitionem' — one positive precept (things to be done), six prohibitions (things not to be done). The Master's answer then confirms the same distribution: 'ideo in malis cavendis ... SINGULATIM instruendus erat, ad bona vero agenda ad obedientiam SOLUMMODO revocandus' ('therefore in guarding against evils he had to be instructed one by one, but for doing good things he had only to be recalled to obedience'). As printed the question asks the reverse of both its neighbours.