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 →
Garbled or corrupt printed readings, logged here. Governed by translation-style.md Pattern 7: the English renders what the plate PRINTS, never the conjectured reading; type that is not a word at all is carried into the English untranslated, in italics. Six entries below previously applied their conjecture to the running text (the withdrawn 10103 precedent); the English has been restored to the printed readings and the entries now record the conjectures instead.
These four Easter sermons are printed by Migne from manuscripts whose orthography is late-antique/Merovingian throughout (sollempnitas, karissimi, querite, celestia, Jhesu, inlustrissimi, dampnatorum, nichil, justicia, condicio, letus, cede for caede). These are spelling conventions, not corruptions, and are simply translated; they are not itemized below.
Chunk 0 (sermons I–II)
- 1151B — remissione omnium peccatorum precepta, per Christi gratiam. Migne prints the manuscript's precepta with the correction [percepta] in brackets; precepta ("commanded") is a Latin word and construable as an ablative absolute with remissione, so the printed lemma is rendered — "the remission of all sins having been commanded [percepta] through the grace of Christ" — with Migne's bracketed apparatus passed through verbatim. percepta ("received") is plainly what the sense wants, and Migne's own bracket says so. (Earlier the English read "having received … the remission of all sins," i.e. the bracket applied silently.)
- 1151D — vita nostra abscondita est cum Christo in Domino (twice), against the Vulgate's vita vestra … cum Christo in Deo at Col. 3:3. Migne's nostra / in Domino is what is printed and what the homilist then argues from ("when we shall be dead … our life is hidden"), so it is translated as printed. Likewise quia filii Domini sumus, which is the preacher's gloss, not a Vulgate lemma.
- 1152B — ut exaudiat nos vigilantes in sollempnitate sua, quod dormiunt pro salute nostra. Migne himself flags this with [ sic mss.]. The clause is broken: quod with a plural dormiunt has no antecedent, and the sense demanded is singular and of Christ (qui dormivit pro salute nostra, "who slept for our salvation"). Rendered literally as printed ("seeing that they sleep for our salvation") with the sic marker kept; a reader should be aware the intended sense is almost certainly the singular.
- 1153A — si alieni sumus ab omni conscriptione peccati. conscriptione is odd; the sense is of sin's written record or enlistment. Rendered literally ("every enrollment of sin") rather than emended to conscientia or contagione.
Chunk 1 (sermon III)
- 1153C — quia ignotam lucem post saecuta longa vidit. saecuta is a misprint for saecula; being no word at all it is carried through untranslated in italics — "after long saecuta he has seen an unknown light." Intended reading saecula, certain (post saecula longa). (Earlier: "after long ages.")
- 1154A — Male intrati sumus. Passive of an intransitive; the devils mean that their house has been broken into to their ruin. Rendered "He has broken in upon us to our ruin" rather than emended.
- 1154C — Premuntur diri sub tortore carnifices. Singular tortore where the parallel wants either Christ or a collective; left literal ("beneath a tormentor").
- 1154D — cripe et mortuos morte tua. cripe is a misprint for eripe. Rendered with the intended reading ("snatch away").
- 1155A — post demersos alta voragine fossa tortores. The printed text will not fully construe: alta voragine is a clean ablative, but fossa is then a second, unattached ablative. Migne's own note offers [n: ( Leg. voraginis?)], i.e. read voraginis with fossa ("the ditch of the abyss"). Per Pattern 7 the printed words are rendered as closely as they allow — "sunk in the deep abyss …, the ditch" — leaving the apposition unresolved, with Migne's note kept verbatim in place. (Earlier the English read "sunk in the deep pit of the abyss," i.e. Migne's conjecture applied silently.)
- 1155A — Nec canditatum officium defuit. canditatum is a misprint for candidatum — the white-robed retinue of the risen Christ. Being no word at all it is carried through untranslated in italics — "Nor was the canditatum office lacking." (Earlier: "Nor was the white-robed retinue lacking.")
- 1155A — plaudent manibus omnis gens. Indicative plaudent in a run of subjunctives (glorientur), echoing Ps. 46:2 plaudite manibus omnes gentes. The printed indicative is rendered as an indicative — "every nation will clap their hands" — breaking the run of jussives exactly as the plate does; the singular omnis gens with plural manibus is likewise kept. The intended reading is a jussive (plaudant), on the model of the psalm. (Earlier it was translated "let every nation clap their hands.")
Chunk 2 (sermon IV)
- 1155D — O crudelissime justicida! A coinage (justus + -cida), not a standard Latin word. Rendered "most cruel slayer of the just" rather than left in Latin.
- 1155D — non sunt ista mei germinis poma, nichil hic caput meam. Corrupt: caput for capit and meam for meum (a common late-Latin e/u confusion in this witness). The intended reading is nihil hic capit meum, "he takes nothing of mine here." As printed the clause is unconstruable — there is no verb, and meam (fem. acc.) cannot agree with neuter caput — so it is rendered as closely as the printed words allow, "nothing here my head," and the defect is recorded here. (Earlier the English read "nothing here … takes anything of mine," with the printed form glossed in brackets in the running text; both the conjecture and the inline gloss are withdrawn.)
- 1155D — figit, affligit — present tenses abruptly interrupting a perfect-tense narrative (suscepit). Kept as printed (historic present).
- 1156A — et medicante pariunt deinceps sacramenta salutis. medicante is an ablative absolute with no expressed subject (the blood, or Christ). Rendered "with its healing" without supplying a noun the Latin does not print.