De exterminatione mali et promotione boni

Merged from two agent batches (chunks 0000–0008 and 0009–0016), 2026-07-28.

Work-wide conventions (reconciled at merge)

• turba → "throng" throughout. The noun occurs ONLY in chunks 0006–0008 and 0009+; the first batch had rendered it "crowd" there, the second "throng", and the 13 first-batch instances were converted at merge. Load-bearing: Richard's scheme repeatedly opposes the turba to the arca (turbam non arcam praemittere, turbam praecedat / turbae succedat). Note for future sweeps: every turb- string in chunks 0000–0005 is the VERB turbare / noun turbatio ("to trouble", "disturbance"), a different lemma. A substring grep for "turba" reports 31 hits across those chunks and every one is a false positive. Match turb(a|am|ae|is|as), not turba.
• dilectio → "love", not "charity" (charitas owns "charity"). Fixed after 1088B prints in signum dilectionis et pignus charitatis in one phrase. The word does not occur at all in chunks 0009–0016, so no conflict arose.
• exterminatio → extermination · promotio → advancement · provectio → furtherance · profectus → progress (all four kept distinct) · arca → ark · crimen/peccatum/culpa/scelus → crime/sin/fault/wickedness · intelligentia → intelligence vs intellectus → understanding · excessus mentis → excess of mind · eremus/desertum/solitudo → wilderness/desert/solitude. Full tables below.

The PL 196 negation defect — this work adds two more

At 1106D a dropped non makes Richard say he does want to expound the twelve tribes here, immediately after saying he did so elsewhere and will not. At 1097D noluit stands for voluit, making the Psalmist unwilling to ascribe the change to God — the reverse of the argument. With 11534 @1054A, 11537 @1069D, 11531 @1000D and 11551 @0230A, that is six instances across five works in this one volume, running in BOTH directions (negation dropped and negation added). Each is rendered literally per Pattern 7. The clustering is itself the finding: it looks like a property of how PL 196 was set, and it may deserve a targeted sweep rather than being caught one work at a time.

Chunks 0000–0008 (cols 1073C–1096D). Chunks 0009–0016 are logged separately by the second agent; merge afterward.

Fixed terminology (BINDING — the second half must match these)

This treatise is a systematic scheme; the technical vocabulary is load-bearing. These renderings were fixed at first occurrence and held identical across 0000–0008.

Note on dilectio. An earlier pass rendered dilectio "charity"; this was reversed when 1088B was reached, where Migne pairs in signum dilectionis et pignus charitatis in one phrase — rendering both "charity" would have collapsed a distinction the plate makes. dilectio = love, charitas = charity throughout. 0000, 0002 and 0003 were swept back.

Cruces

Dropped/garbled negatives and connectives — the class flagged in the brief

1079C — Moeror pro nobis aeternis, mare est a dextris (chunk 0001). Printed nobis where the argument requires bonis: the whole sentence is the pair "sorrow for eternal goods on the right hand / sorrow for eternal evils on the left," and the chapter head is De gemina cordis compunctione. nobis is a real word, so per Pattern 7 / Pattern 12 it is rendered as ordinary English with no [sic:] marker: "Sorrow for us eternal ones is the sea on the right hand." Near-certain compositor's error for bonis. Worth a human's eye — it makes Richard say something the next clause immediately contradicts.

1095B — Sit, inquit, inter arcam spatium cubitorum duorum millium (chunk 0008). The correlative term of inter has dropped out. Josh. 3:4 reads sitque inter vos et arcam spatium cubitorum duum milium. Rendered as printed: "Let there be, he says, between the ark a space of two thousand cubits." Worth a human's eye — a genuine omission in the printed text, of the same family as the dropped non/nisi cases at 11534 @1054A, 11537 @1069D, 11531 @1000D, 11551 @0230A.

1095C — Sed usque ab duo millia cubitorum ulterius progreditur (chunk 0008). ab for ad: the sense demands "as far as two thousand cubits." Real word, so rendered literally, no marker: "But he advances further, even from two thousand cubits."

1095A — Illic ergo praecedat, ut viam ostendat (chunk 0007, closing sentence). Printed Illic ("there," i.e. beyond Jordan), but the immediately preceding sentence has just argued the opposite — jubemur turbam non arcam praemittere — so the argument requires Hic. Rendered as printed. Worth a human's eye: the chapter's conclusion currently reverses its own thesis.

Carried type — [sic: …] markers (Pattern 7/10/12)

Real words that are merely wrong — rendered as English, no marker (Pattern 12 boundary)

• 1075A (0000) — spes reviviscit, animis hilarescit. animis (abl./dat. pl.) where the parallel at 1075C (conscientia hilarescit) shows a nominative subject is wanted, i.e. animus. Rendered "hope revives, in spirits it grows glad."
• 1080A (0002) — saeculum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt. Horace, Epist. I.11.27, caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. Migne prints saeculum. Rendered "they change the world, not the spirit, who run across the sea" — a Christianizing slip that is itself of interest; do NOT restore caelum.
• 1080C (0002) — perfecto probare et penitus improbare. perfecto for perfecte. Rendered "to approve by the perfect and utterly to disapprove."
• 1079A (0001) — Itaque quae nulla sunt, multum a se differunt. nulla where illa is expected ("those things," i.e. the goods and evils of the life to come, just named). Rendered "And so the things which are nothing differ much from one another."
• 1079A (0001) — bona sed mala quasi media interjacet. sed for et; the next clause says quae bona et mala permista habet. Rendered "the goods but the evils."
• 1079A (0001) — parenthesis misplacement. Illius igitur vitae bonis bonorum suorum (quamvis umbratili similitudine jungitur, sicut et vitae illius malis, malorum suorum) imaginaria affinitate sociatur. The parentheses enclose the main verb jungitur and one half of the comparison, leaving bonis bonorum suorum stranded. Per Pattern 8 the marks are preserved exactly where Migne sets them and the English is built round them.
• 1079D (0001) — Nonne mare putamus de juxta, illud aufugerat, qui dicebat? Unconstruable as printed (a question mark closing what runs into the following quotation, a bare de juxta, and a relative qui with no antecedent). Rendered as closely as the printed words allow: "Do we not think the sea from beside, that one had fled away, who was saying?" Worth a human's eye.
• 1085A (0004) — Scimus autem quia aquae quantumlibet dulces sint, quoniam, cum in mare perveniunt…. Doubled conjunction quia … quoniam; the sentence never resolves its first quia. Rendered literally with the anacoluthon intact.
• 1086C (0004) — mortuisque nomen concepit. mortuis (pl.) for mortui. Rendered "and took on the name of the dead."
• 1089A (0005) — cursum Jordanis, imperiumque dissolutionis. imperium dissolutionis is opaque; possibly impetum for imperium. Rendered "and the empire of dissolution."
• 1092C (0006) — Saepe et supra modum sunt alia voluntaria oris et beneplacita cordis. supra modum where praeter modum or plerumque would fit. Rendered "Often, and beyond measure…".
• 1094B (0007) — ad perfectum exteriorum bonorum fastigium pertingere. fastigium ("summit") where the argument requires fastidium ("loathing") — the sentence is about loathing outward goods, and terrena fastidiunt stands two clauses earlier. Rendered "the perfect summit of outward goods." Worth a human's eye.
• 1095B (0008) — Sicut enim nec totum volunt, quod valent…. Third-person plural inside a first/second-person argument (Quis… potest… facimus… possumus). Rendered literally.
• 1096A (0008) — qui seipsum indicat geminae perfectionis, nec saltem exordia hucusque apprehendisse. indicat for judicat, and nec displaced. Rendered "who declares of himself that he has not up to now laid hold even of the beginnings of the twofold perfection."

Pattern 9 (no marker, no emendation — logged so a later sweep does not churn them)

• 1084A (0003) — ut in nomine Jesu omne genuflectatur. Phil. 2:10 omne genu flectatur run together. genuflectere is an attested medieval verb, so it is not carried as non-word type; but the merger leaves omne without its noun. Rendered "that in the name of Jesus every thing may bend the knee."
• 1088D (0005) head — CAPUT II. Qomodo investigatio…. Qomodo for Quomodo. A typo in a structural head has no English exponent (Pattern 9, section-label ruling); the English head reads "How", and the misprint stays visible in the facing Latin column.
• 1095A (0008) head — De gemina imperfectione quas semper oportet prae oculis habere. Number/gender mismatch (gemina imperfectione sg. abl. / quas pl. acc. fem.), and the chapter body argues about gemina perfectio, not imperfectio. Head rendered "On the twofold imperfection, which we ought always to have before our eyes." No emendation.
• 1084C (0003) — Vide ergo aquae illae quae superiores erant, quantum creverant. Nominative where the indirect question wants accusative-or-nominative agreement. No English exponent.
• 1096A (0008) — gemina perfectione, quarum neutrum. quarum (fem.) with neutrum (neut.). No English exponent; rendered "neither of which."

Punctuation preserved per Pattern 8 (not defects of ours)

• 1075C (0000) — Felix ante cujus conspectum mare fugit malitia recedit, miseria cedit…. No comma after fugit; the asyndeton reproduces as "the sea flees malice withdraws," which reads badly in English. Preserved as printed rather than adjudicated in the text.
• 1075B (0000) — Vides ne ergo quale sit hujusmodi mare magnum… closed with a full stop though interrogative. Preserved.
• 1076B (0000) — Nonne Jordanis fluenta converti desideravit, cum ait: …tibi. Question closed with a full stop. Preserved.
• 1076D (0000) — secundo de teipso in Deum, Mundum amasti. Comma plus capital where a full stop belongs. Preserved.
• 1077B (0001) — Vis apertius audire, plenius nosce quomodo… closed with a full stop though interrogative, with an imperative (nosce) inside the question. Preserved.
• 1084C (0003) — O fortis ut mors dilectio, … expandis? Apostrophe closed with a question mark. Preserved.
• 1087A (0004), 1089D & 1090A (0005) — lowercase word following a question mark (porro, quis, vix). Preserved.
• 1091D (0006) — the column anchor is set hard against the following word ([1091D]Puto) in the source; mirrored in the English.

Not defects — checked and dismissed

• Column-band sequence 1073C → 1073D → 1074C (0000), 1087A → 1088A (0004) with 0005 opening at 1087B: band arithmetic, per the settled false-positive class. No text is broken across any anchor in 0000–0008.
• [n: (ibid.)] at 1084A (0003) resolves against the printed sequence; not touched.
• [n: (Philipp. VIII.)] (1083C), [n: (II Reg. XXIX.)] (1083C), [n: (Josue VIII)] (1082B), [n: (Psal. LXXII.)] vs [n: (Psal. LXXVIII.)] for the same verse (1089B / 1090D): Migne's citations, reproduced verbatim; not corrected.
• No [f: …] tags: Pattern 4 does not apply to a treatise.
• No guillemets anywhere in 0000–0008 — Migne marks every quotation with italics or a bare inquit. Straight quotes were supplied in exactly two places (0000 1074C, "Jew"/"Hebrew" as mentioned words; 0003 1082D, "their") per Pattern 6.

Richard of Saint Victor, De exterminatione mali et promotione boni, PL 196, cols 1096D–1116C. Second-half batch (chunks 0009–0016 of 17). Chunks 0000–0008 were translated concurrently by another agent and carry their own cruces file; the two are to be merged.

Fixed terminology for this batch

Recorded here so the halves can be reconciled at merge. The treatise is a systematic scheme — the whole second half is the twelve-stone catalogue, whose virtue-names are the load-bearing vocabulary. A term rendered two ways breaks it.

Verified against the peer's 0000–0005 as written at the time this file was made: arca → ark (17 instances, agrees), exterminatio → extermination (agrees), promotio → advancement (agrees; the "promotion" hits in their files are the frontmatter work: field only).

The governing scheme

The Jordan / ark / scouting figure

explorator → "scout" (not "spy") is the single most important choice in this batch — the word and its cognates run through chapters X–XV as a sustained figure (exploratores praemiorum / meritorum, exploratio, perscrutatio), and "spy" cannot carry exploratio faciendorum.

Mental faculties and acts

mens and animus are both rendered mind; anima is soul, spiritus spirit, cor heart. The distinction the treatise actually argues (ch. XVIII, 1114B–1115A) is anima vs. spiritus, and that one is kept sharp; mens/animus never collide in a single construction.

The stones

The twelve virtues (ch. VI–XVIII) — fixed pairs

fear / solidity · compunction / weight (gravitas) · hope / longsuffering (longanimitas; stabilitas in the ch. VI list is stability, rendered separately because Migne prints a different word) · charity / integrity · gladness (jucunditas) / maturity · severity / harshness (asperitas) · abstinence / austerity · patience / strength (robur; robustus = robust) · circumspection / solicitude · speculation / assiduity · discretion / certainty · contemplation / quiet (quies; tranquillitas = tranquillity, requies = rest — all three occur in ch. XVIII and are kept apart).

Other recurring pairs: confidentia confidence / diffidentia diffidence; praesumptio presumption / desperatio despair; visitatio visitation / probatio testing / tentatio temptation; justificatio justification / glorificatio glorification; securitas security / puritas purity.

senarius / duodenarius / millenarius / unitas → the number six / the number twelve / the number one thousand / unity.

syntasma (1101C) is kept in italic Latin per the register rule for technical terms with no clean English equivalent.

Cruces

A. Dropped or wrong negative — flagged loudly

1. 1106D — Horum autem rationem hoc loco ostendere jam volumus Printed: Horum autem rationem hoc loco ostendere jam volumus, de quibus quod nobis rectius videbatur alias jam diximus. Rendered literally: "But the reason of these we now wish to set forth in this place, concerning which we have already said elsewhere what seemed to us more correct." The sentence asserts the opposite of what it goes on to say. The relative clause ("we have already said elsewhere what seemed to us more correct") is a refusal to treat the matter here, and Richard has just written, four sentences earlier, alio loco jam diximus. Reading required: non volumus (or nolumus). This is the same defect class as 11534 @1054A, 11537 @1069D, 11531 @1000D and 11551 @0230A — a negative dropped in this printing of PL 196. Rendered as printed per Pattern 7; a reader of the English will meet a contradiction that is Migne's, not ours.

2. 1097D — Ipsum cui noluit hoc opus ascribere, maluit designare ex descriptione. Rendered: "The very one to whom he was unwilling to ascribe this work, he preferred to designate by a description." The argument is that the Psalmist refused to ascribe the work to himself and therefore named God — "haec mutatio dexterae Excelsi" — as elaborately as he could. noluit makes him unwilling to ascribe the work to God, which is the reverse. Reading required: voluit, or cui for sibi. Same class as (1); rendered as printed.

B. Non-word type carried through — [sic: …] in the English

3. 1109B — manns for manus (0013). …doctas habere manns ad praelium et digitos suos ad bellum (Ps 143:1). Not a word; carried untranslated in italics and marked [sic: manns]. Conjecture manus is certain (the verse is quoted verbatim otherwise).

4. 1106C head — duodceim for duodecim (0012, CAPUT VI). De duodceim principalibus virtutibus… Carried as [sic: duodceim] without italic asterisks, because the head text is already one italic run and nested italics are not expressible (Pattern 10). Note this is not the Pattern 9 "section label normalizes" case: the label (CAPUT VI.) is sound; the misprint is in the title's content. The chapter itself then prints duodecim correctly three times.

5. 1113B–C — lapis is tranquillitas contemplationis (0016). Dictus est, ut superius est dictum, lapis is tranquillitas contemplationis. The run is unconstruable — lapis is nominative and tranquillitas is nominative with no copula between them, and is does nothing. Carried as [sic: lapis is]. Conjecture: lapis iste (i.e. "that stone is called… the tranquillity of contemplation"), the terminal -te dropped; the chapter's own head reads De quiete contemplationis, so tranquillitas here is Richard's, not an intruder.

C. Real words that are merely wrong — rendered as ordinary English, no marker

6. 1111C — per invisibilem formam, invisibiliumque figuram (0014). Rendered: "through invisible form and the figure of invisible things." The clause is the classic Victorine ascent formula and the very next sentence gives it correctly: Felix cui visibilium scientia fit scala ad invisibilia cognoscenda. The first invisibilem must be visibilem. Rendered as printed per Pattern 7, which produces "through invisible form … into the understanding of intelligible things" — visibly circular, which is the evidence.

7. 1114A — omnis inferior vis animae proprio interim induitur officio (0016). Rendered: "every lower power of the soul is meanwhile clothed with its own office." The sentence has just said that in this burial the body lies senseless, nihil sensualitas, nihil agit imaginatio — the lower powers cease to operate. induitur ("is clothed with") states the opposite; exuitur ("is stripped of") is required. Rendered as printed.

8. 1105C — teipsum in humilitate custodis (0012). Indicative in a run of imperatives (memento statim…). Rendered "you keep yourself in humility." Reading: custodi.

9. 1109C — In promptu itaque habes ulcisci omnem inobedientiam, arguebat elatos… (0013). Second-person present habes inside a sequence of third-person imperfects about David. Rendered "And so you have ready to hand to avenge all disobedience: he rebuked the haughty…" Reading: habebat, or habens. (The phrase is Paul's, 2 Cor. 10:6, which may explain the intrusion of the second person.)

10. 1106B — Debemus itaque et nos promptum et familiare haberi (0012). Passive haberi where the construction wants active habere ("we ought to have ready and familiar…"). Rendered with the passive as printed: "we too ought to be held ready and familiar at every time of temptation." Reading: habere.

11. 1110A — Miraris quilibet audis (0014). Rendered "You wonder, whoever you are that hear…" quilibet will not construe with the second-person audis. Reading: quisquis audis or quilibet audit.

12. 1105D — ab hoc exsecrabili superbiae typo (0012). Rendered literally "from this execrable type of pride." Sense wants the Greek τῦφος, "swelling, conceit" — typus is used for the puffed-up pride of Jer. 17:5–6 just quoted, not for a figure or foreshadowing. Kept as "type"; the reading is Migne's word and is translatable, so no [sic:].

13. 1097C — Vix eadem aliquando, inquit, coepi, quod qui incoepisse me credidi, vix sero coepi fieri bonus de malo… (0009). The sentence will not fully construe: quod qui is doubled, and eadem has no antecedent. Rendered as closely as the printed words allow: "Scarcely at some time, he says, did I begin these same things, in that I who believed myself to have begun scarcely and late began to become good out of evil…" Probably quia ego qui for quod qui; not emended.

14. 1097D — Vix cum quaedam boni exordia tandem apprehendisse se memorat, ut … ostendat. (0009). The cum has no verb of its own and ut no clear governing clause. Rendered "Scarcely, when he records that he has at last laid hold of certain beginnings of good, does he show himself to be following after his ark…" Minor; listed for completeness.

15. 1097D — committere (0009). Erat sane in oculis ejus admirabile talem de malo ad bonum committere. Rendered "to commit such a man from evil to good." committere does not take de … ad … in this sense; commutare is the likely reading (and is what the surrounding argument, fieri bonus de malo, wants). Real word, translatable, so no [sic:].

16. 1109D — fluxasque corporis restringens (0013). fluxas is feminine accusative plural with no noun — a substantive appears to have dropped (e.g. voluptates, illecebras). Rendered "restraining the flowing things of the body."

D. Punctuation carried per Pattern 8 — preserved, not repaired

17. 1102C — a full stop in mid-sentence (0011): …quem exploratorum sagacitas instruit. et arcae ordinata antecessio in suo itinere dirigit. The relative clause has two coordinate verbs and the stop falls between them, before a lowercase et. Preserved exactly in the English ("…instructs. and the ordered precedence of the ark directs…").

18. 1105D — a comma where a full stop belongs (0012): …et non saturabitur cum venerit aestas, quam utilis ergo, putamus, erit… The Jeremiah quotation runs straight into Richard's own sentence over a comma, with quam lowercase. Preserved.

19. 1107D — a statement closed with a full stop that is plainly a question (0013): Quam utilem, quaeso, putamus illum lapidem quem primo loco posuimus, soliditatem videlicet timoris per quem mens fundatur in solido humilitatis. Preserved with the full stop.

20. 1100C — an interrogative closed with a full stop (0010): Nonne in his verbis in illam exploratorum sententiam concurrere videtur, ubi dicitur: … ends with . Preserved.

21. 1114D — a ? closing a statement (0016): …et cum gloria suscepisti me? The Psalm verse is declarative; the question mark belongs to Richard's framing Quid, quaeso, scala indigeat… several clauses back. Preserved.

22. 1113A — In petra, inquit, exaltavit, me (0015). A comma between verb and its object pronoun. Preserved ("he hath exalted, me").

23. 1112D–1113A — anacoluthon at the Joseph sentence (0015): His, ni fallor, lapidibus magnus ille patriarcha Joseph, quem princeps populorum constituit … et senes ejus prudentiam doceret. The sentence has no main verb; the following sentence (His, inquam, lapidibus…) restarts and supplies it. Migne's full stop between them is kept, so the English carries the same broken construction.

E. Migne's citations left verbatim (no correction proposed)

Recorded as observations only — these are refDisplay matter and a following resolution chain may depend on them:

• 1107D [n: (Isa. LVI.)] for Super quem requiescet Spiritus meus… = Isa. 66:2.
• 1108A [n: (Jer. V)] for quis dabit capiti meo aquam… = Jer. 9:1.
• 1112D [n: (I Cor. XL)] for Imitatores mei estote = I Cor. 11:1 (XL for XI).
• 1113A [n: (Psal. XVIII.)] for Quandiu ponam consilia in anima mea = Ps. 12:2.
• 1114D [n: (Psal. XVII.)] for Tenuisti manum dexteram meam… = Ps. 72:23–24.
• 1112D — the Pauline citation (I [1112D] Cor. VII) is printed inline inside the italic quotation, not as a [n: …] note, and a column anchor falls between I and Cor.. Both are reproduced exactly as printed.
• 1110B and 1110C both print [n: (ibid.)] after Acts quotations; left verbatim (anaphora resolves at index time).

F. Not defects — checked and deliberately left alone

• 1103A–1104A–1103A–1104A in chunk 0011. The anchor sequence in ch. XV / TRACT. III runs 1103A, 1104A, then back to 1103A, 1103B–D, then 1104A, 1104B, 1104C, and 1104A occurs twice. No text is broken mid-word or mid-construction at any of these anchors. Positional quarter-guides, transcribed where they fall; not a gap and not a patch candidate.
• quales … sit, qualia vel quanta sit (1098D) and similar number/gender slips — no English exponent; Pattern 9.
• TRACTATUS TERTIUS carries no body text in the Latin chunk (the head is immediately followed by CAPUT PRIMUM). The empty section is reproduced 1:1; it is a rubric, not a hole.
• peccatum meum contra me est semper (1105B) rendered "my sin is always against me," not the conventional "before me." Migne prints contra; scripture policy forbids substituting the received English.

PL 196 polarity sweep (2026-07-28)

Sites found by the volume-wide sweep for sense-reversing defects (dropped or intrusive negations, and single letters that invert a claim). All are Migne's; all are rendered literally per Pattern 7. Entries already discussed above are repeated here so the class can be read in one place.

### 1079C — letter-inversion (high confidence) Printed: Moeror pro nobis aeternis, mare est a dextris; moeror pro malis aeternis, mare est a sinistris.

Conjecture: bonis (for nobis)

The sentence is built as a paired scheme — sorrow for eternal GOODS on the right vs. sorrow for eternal EVILS on the left — matching the chapter head 'De gemina cordis compunctione' and echoed two sentences later, 'ut... mala diluamus aeterna et... bona mercemur aeterna.' Printed 'nobis' ('for us') breaks the good/evil antithesis the passage otherwise sustains; 'bonis' is one letter away.

### 1094B — letter-inversion (medium confidence) Printed: Non potest, ut arbitror, ad perfectum exteriorum bonorum fastigium pertingere, qui interiorum bonorum dulcedinem nondum meruit gustando sentire.

Conjecture: ad perfectum exteriorum bonorum FASTIDIUM pertingere

The gloss supplies the right word one clause earlier: the men who can do this are defined as 'qui jam ea quae sursum sunt sapiunt, qui coelestium dulcedinem jam degustaverunt, QUI TERRENA FASTIDIUNT' — loathing of earthly goods, not attainment of a 'summit' of them, is the disposition under discussion. The sentence that immediately follows proves the same point from a text of refusal, not of attainment: 'Puto quia Propheta nisi prius gustasset quam suavis est Dominus... illud omnino ex sententia dicere non posset: Renuit consolari anima mea.' Tasting inward sweetness is what makes a man REFUSE outward consolation; as printed, the sentence makes the inward taste a precondition for reaching the peak of outward goods, the opposite of the argument it introduces and of the whole treatise's contemptus mundi.

### 1095A — letter-inversion (high confidence) Printed: Illic ergo praecedat, ut viam ostendat.

Conjecture: Hic ergo praecedat, ut viam ostendat.

The whole chapter is built on a Hic/Illic antithesis in which the ark does the OPPOSITE thing on each side of the Jordan: 'In loco horroris et vastae solitudinis turbam praecedat, in terram promissionis ingredienti turbae succedat. Praecedat ad nostra, subsequatur ad divina. Citra Jordanem, quae pertinent ad nos; ultra Jordanem, quae sunt supra nos. Hic jubemur discutere et approbare... Illic praecipimur credere.' The sentence immediately before the defect states the rule for illic explicitly: 'Sed ad illa quae ultra Jordanem sunt... eo quod jubemur turbam NON ARCAM praemittere' — beyond the Jordan the ark must NOT go first. 'Illic ergo praecedat' asserts precisely what its own neighbouring clause has just denied; the concluding maxim belongs to the near side (hic), where the ark goes before to show the way, per 'Praecedat ad nostra' and 'arcam nostram ante nos praemittere... quo debeat virtutum familia... tendere' and the Prov. IV proof-text 'palpebrae tuae praecedant gressus tuos.'

### 1097D — added-negative (high confidence) Printed: Ipsum cui noluit hoc opus ascribere, maluit designare ex descriptione.

Conjecture: voluit for noluit — "Ipsum cui voluit hoc opus ascribere, maluit designare ex descriptione"

The whole point of the paragraph is that the psalmist ascribes the work to God and not to himself: 'Sed, ne quis eum vel hoc ipsum boni exordium sibi ascribere credat, audiat quid huic sententiae adnectat haec mutatio dexterae Excelsi. Non sibi sufficere potuit ut diceret haec mutatio Dei, nisi diceret haec mutatio dexterae Excelsi.' He was not unwilling to ascribe the work to God — he was unwilling to ascribe it to himself. The following clause supplies the correct sense: 'Excelsum dicit qui hoc fecit, et dexteram nominavit. Ac si aperte dicat: Ille hoc fortiter fecit qui fortia potenter efficere consuevit.' The one to whom he DID wish to ascribe it he chose to name descriptively ('the right hand of the Most High') rather than by the bare name 'Dei'. As printed, 'noluit' makes the descriptive naming pointless and denies the ascription the sentence's own sequel affirms.

### 1106D — dropped-non (high confidence) Printed: Horum autem rationem hoc loco ostendere jam volumus, de quibus quod nobis rectius videbatur alias jam diximus.

Conjecture: nolumus (or non ... volumus) for volumus — "Horum autem rationem hoc loco ostendere jam nolumus, de quibus quod nobis rectius videbatur alias jam diximus."

Its own relative clause gives the reason for declining, not for undertaking: 'de quibus quod nobis rectius videbatur alias jam diximus' ('concerning which we have already said elsewhere what seemed to us more correct'), and two sentences earlier he has already said the same: 'Quid autem de duodecim filiis Jacob sentiamus, ex quibus originem trahunt hae duodecim tribus, alio loco jam diximus.' As printed, the sentence announces an exposition that the sentence itself declares superfluous — and that Richard then does not give: he passes straight to 'Sed qui ex tali sobole semen suum in duodecim tribubus multiplicatum esse confidit discat quales lapides...' The bare list of tribe-virtues that precedes is given without any 'ratio' at all.

### 1111C — added-negative (high confidence) Printed: Scala usque in coelum porrecta, ante ejus oculos erigitur, Dominusque innixus scalae conspicitur, ut per invisibilem formam, invisibiliumque figuram, in intellectibilium intelligentiam, speculantis animus sublevetur.

Conjecture: visibilem for invisibilem — "ut per visibilem formam, invisibiliumque figuram, in intellectibilium intelligentiam, speculantis animus sublevetur"

The gloss in the very next sentence supplies the right word: 'Felix cui visibilium scientia fit scala ad invisibilia cognoscenda' ('Happy the man for whom the knowledge of VISIBLE things becomes a ladder for knowing invisible things'). The ladder is Richard's standard anagogic device — a seen form carrying the mind to the unseen — and the paired member 'invisibiliumque figuram' already supplies the invisible term, so 'invisibilem formam' collapses the antithesis and makes the ascent start from what it is supposed to reach. The chapter repeats the point twice more: 'nec eget in illa subtilitatis suae ascensione sustentari alicujus corporeae similitudinis adumbratione' and 'Felices quibus exteriorum scientia fit scala ascensionis, non ruina dejectionis.'

### 1114A — letter-inversion (high confidence) Printed: Jacet hic corpus sine sensu et motu in hoc Dominico monumento; nihil sensualitas, nihil agit imaginatio, et omnis inferior vis animae proprio interim induitur officio.

Conjecture: exuitur for induitur — "omnis inferior vis animae proprio interim exuitur officio" (is meanwhile stripped of its own office)

The two clauses immediately preceding it in the same sentence assert the exact opposite of what 'induitur' claims: 'Jacet hic corpus sine sensu et motu ... nihil sensualitas, nihil agit imaginatio.' The body lies senseless and motionless, sensuality does nothing, imagination does nothing — so the lower powers are precisely NOT discharging their offices. The clause is the summary of that suspension, and the whole burial-in-the-stone figure requires divestiture ('nec recipit corpus nisi mortificatum', 'omnem sensum humanum funditus absorbeat'). As printed the summary reinstates the very faculties its own protasis has just shut down.