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 1052B — printed tamentationes Jeremiae. Intended Lamentationes Jeremiae. Rendered "the Lamentations of Jeremiah." Broken initial capital in the Migne plate.
- col 1052C — printed longitudinm. Intended longitudinem. Rendered "the length."
- col 1053B — printed Malach enim Hebraice, Latine regnum interpretatum est. Hebrew melekh is "king," not "kingdom"; but Migne prints regnum and the source tradition (Isidore, Etym. VI.ii.10) does too. Rendered "kingdom" as printed, per the translate-what-Migne-prints rule.
- col 1053D — printed Nablat for the Hebrew name of the Psalter (Isidore has Nabla). Left as printed.
- col 1053D — printed Ysopocalim, quod interpretatur volumen hymnorum. Garbled transliteration of Sepher Tehillim. Left as printed, with the gloss translated.
- col 1053D — printed Ezechielites in the list of psalm-authors. The tradition reads Eman Ezrahites (Ethan/Heman the Ezrahite). Rendered literally "the Ezechielite" — a human read-through should decide whether the site apparatus flags this.
- col 1053A — Deuteronomium ... praefiguratio est quae sic ea habet quae priora sunt, ut tum ea nova sint omnia quae in eo replicantur. The clause is syntactically strained (tum for tamen?). Rendered literally.
- col 1054C — printed erectum coma concludit (three little verses "an upright coma closes"). Isidore reads erecto comate concluduntur. Rendered literally following the printed nominative.
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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). 1 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.
1053B — sense-reversing-letter (migne, medium confidence)
Printed: Malachim proinde appellatur, eo quod reges Judae et Israelitae gentis gesta per ordinem digerat temporum. Malach enim Hebraice, Latine regnum interpretatum est
Conjecture: regum for regnum (Isidore, Etym. VI.ii: 'Malachim enim Hebraice, Latine regum interpretatur')
The gloss is offered as the reason for the title, and its own immediate neighbour states that reason: 'eo quod REGES Judae et Israelitae gentis gesta per ordinem digerat temporum' — the deeds of the KINGS. A book named from the kings cannot be named from a word glossed 'kingdom'; the etymology as printed falsifies the clause it is explaining. The same chunk elsewhere keeps the correct sense of the title in the canon list, 'quartus Malachim, quod est Regum tertius et quartus' — Kings, not Kingdom. The English follows the defective plate faithfully ('kingdom'), so the defect is Migne's, not ours.