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 →
- cols 1049A → 1050A — the column sequence jumps from 1049A straight to 1050A within a single unbroken sentence (quae Petrum post trinam negationem non solum non [1050A] repulit). Columns 1049B–D are absent from the printed run. Anchors reproduced exactly as found; the gap is Migne's, not a chunking error.
- col 1046D — the Sibylline verses at 713 are a paraphrase of the acrostic Judicii signo (Augustine, De civ. Dei XVIII.23). Rendered as three verse lines matching Migne's lineation; the italics and the inline page number 713 are preserved.
- col 1043C — Sponsae vel sponsi nomen ab eo quod est spondere grammatici derivant. The etymology is untranslatable without the Latin; the Latin forms are carried in parentheses in the English so the derivation still reads.
- col 1044B — « Palleat omnis amans; » attributed only to quidam (in fact Ovid, Ars am. I.729). Left unattributed as printed.
- col 1045D / 1046A — Haec est gloria, sed ab intus, sed invisa, filiae regis et amicae echoes Psal. XLIV, 14 but Migne gives no
[n:]here. No citation supplied. - col 1044D — Lot's Numquid non modicum est, et vivet anima mea? falls outside the italics in Migne although it continues the Genesis quotation. Italics reproduced exactly as printed.