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 →
- Col 1012B — Migne prints "sed ab pso amor procedit" ("Animus humanus amor non est, sed ab pso amor procedit"). "pso" is a broken/dropped-letter typesetting of "ipso" (ab ipso = "from it"). Translated per the evident reading ("but love proceeds from it").