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 / uncertain printed readings rendered literally (not emended) in the English, logged here per the crux rule. Column = the Migne column anchor the reading falls under.
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- [0964B/C] col 0964C — No. 6, Canticle lemma: Migne prints memores uberum tuorum super unum ("mindful of thy breasts above one"). Standard Vulgate reads super vinum ("above wine"), which the surrounding gloss ("nourished with spiritual milk … clearer than the precepts of the ancient law") does not depend on. Rendered as printed: "mindful of thy breasts above one." Probable print corruption of vinum → unum.
- [0966B] col 0966B — No. 12, Canticle lemma: Migne prints ubi pascus, ubi cubas in meridie. pascus is a nonstandard form (expected pascas, 2nd sing.); cubas is indicative for expected subjunctive cubes. Both understood as 2nd-person address ("where thou feedest, where thou liest at noon") and rendered so. Logged for the anomalous pascus.
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- [0971A] col 0971A — No. 34, Apocalypse citation [n: (Apoc. XX)]: Migne prints Beatus qui habitat partem in resurrectione prima. Standard text (Apoc. 20:6) reads qui habet partem ("who has a part"). habitat partem ("who dwells a part") is ungrammatical; rendered literally as printed ("Blessed is he who dwells a part in the first resurrection"). Probable corruption of habet → habitat.
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- [0974B] col 0974B — No. 59, Canticle lemma: Migne prints …invenit quem diligit anima mea (3rd person, "she/he found whom my soul loves"), where the biblical text (Cant. 3:4) and the first-person narration of the passage expect inveni ("I found"). Rendered as printed with the 3rd-person subject supplied by context ("she found him whom my soul loves").
- [0975A] col 0975A — No. 62, Psalm citation [n: (Psalm. CVI et CXIII)]: Migne prints …in exitus uquarum. uquarum is an obvious typographic corruption of aquarum ("of waters"); rendered "outlets of waters."
- [0976B] col 0976B — No. 69, closing sentence: Migne prints an anacoluthon / truncated sentence: sicut enim Christus quae bona per suam possessionem, in progenies, et multa tempora fidelibus condonavit. No main clause completes the sicut comparison; a verb governing quae bona is missing. Rendered literally as an incomplete clause ("for as Christ bestowed the good things which through his possession, unto generations and many times, upon the faithful").
Garbled/uncertain printed readings encountered in this batch. Each rendered literally-per-sense in the translation; logged here with column, printed reading, and note. Migne's [n:] citations are NOT crux-logged (they pass verbatim by rule even where the numeral looks wrong, e.g. Num. 199 "Joan. XXV," "Matth. XXVIII").
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- col 0979C (Num. 100) — printed cruditi ("Eos qui tenera vel vehementiore doctrina ... cruditi sunt"). Non-word; evidently eruditi ("instructed"). Rendered "have been instructed."
- col 0981A (Num. 115) — printed sacrificand locus ("nec sacrificand locus"), missing genitive/gerund ending; evidently sacrificandi. Rendered "no place for sacrificing."
- col 0981A/B (Num. 115) — printed perse utores ("cum haec omnia perse utores agerent"), a split of persecutores. Rendered "the persecutors." (Both may be OCR/digitization artifacts rather than Migne's plate.)
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- col 0983B (Num. 128) — printed in corruptionis integritate ("et in corruptionis integritate perdurant"). Sense requires incorruptionis. Rendered "in the integrity of incorruption."
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- col 0988C (Num. 164) — lemma printed ad rummandum ("Labiisque et dentibus illius ad rummandum"); evidently ad ruminandum ("to ruminate"), confirmed by the gloss ruminare immediately following. Rendered "to ruminate."
- col 0989A (Num. 169) — lemma printed mata punica ("Si floruerunt mata punica"); evidently mala punica ("pomegranates"), confirmed by the gloss malum punicum following. Rendered "the pomegranates."
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- col 0990C (Num. 179) — printed idem dilectus dicti ("ad ipsam per prophetam idem dilectus dicti"); evidently dicit (or dixit). Rendered "the same beloved says."
- col 0991A (Num. 185) — printed castistas ("Vasa in quibus castistas habitat"); evidently castitas ("chastity"). Rendered "chastity."
- col 0992C (Num. 194) — printed contacebunt ("usque in finem contacebunt [n: (Isai. VIII)]"). The source (Isa 62:6) reads non tacebunt ("they shall not be silent"), the opposite sense; contacebunt as printed would mean "they shall keep silence / fall silent." Rendered literally per the printed reading, "they shall keep silence." Note also the citation numeral: Migne prints "Isai. VIII" though the quotation is Isa 62:6 — left verbatim per marker rule.
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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). 4 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.
0966C — reversed-predication (ours, medium confidence)
Printed: Sodales quippe Christi ex quadam parte haeredici appellentur, quia nativitatem, passionem, et resurrectionem ipsius profitentur; sed quia de ipsis Apostolus ait: Habentes formam pietatis et virtutes ejus abnegantes, non jam sodales, sed adversarii comprobantur.
Conjecture: 'Heretics may in a certain respect be called companions (sodales) of Christ' — the English has inverted subject and predicate nominative, so the title being granted becomes 'heretics' instead of 'companions'.
The clause the sentence ends on, 'NON JAM SODALES, sed adversarii comprobantur', can only follow if the title provisionally granted was 'sodales'; and the lemma under discussion is 'per greges sodalium tuorum: id est per congregationes haereticorum' — heretics are the ones being called Christ's companions, not the reverse. Out-of-enum defectType: a converse inversion rather than a negation.
0983B — sense-reversing-letter (migne, high confidence)
Printed: Omnes sancti qui suavissimum odorem ex bona conversatione dederunt, et in corruptionis integritate perdurant, Deo auctore, tantorum bonorum gratiam perceperunt.
Conjecture: incorruptionis integritate (word-division defect: incorruptionis set as in corruptionis, so the printed text says 'in the integrity of corruption')
The lemma being glossed is 'Species ejus ut Libani, electus ut cedri' — cedar, and the same commentary at Num. 24 (col. 0969A) makes the pairing explicit: 'Tecta autem et laquearia domorum istarum cedrina et cypressina, quae INCORRUPTIBILIA et ODORIFERA dignoscuntur'. The same sentence's own first half, 'suavissimum odorem ex bona conversatione dederunt', is the other half of that odour+incorruption pair; 'integritas corruptionis' asserts the opposite of what the cedar figure requires. Our English silently repairs the plate to 'incorruption'.
0992C — dropped-non (migne, high confidence)
Printed: Ad quam, sub nomine Jerusalem, dicit Dominus per prophetam: Super te et super muros tuos posui custodes tuos, tota die et nocte, usque in finem contacebunt [n: (Isai. VIII)].
Conjecture: non tacebunt (Isa. LXII, 6) — 'contacebunt' is a word-division/letter defect for 'non tacebunt'
This work quotes the identical verse correctly earlier, at Num. 63, col. 0975B: 'Super muros tuos, Jerusalem, custodes constitui; tota die et nocte perpetuo NON TACEBUNT. Omnes tenentes gladios, ad bella doctissimi.' Here the immediate neighbour is 'Tradidit eam custodibus. Commisit eam regendam apostolis vel successoribus eorum episcopis' — watchmen handed the Church to guard; watchmen who 'shall keep silence unto the end' is the opposite of the point being proved. Our English renders the defective plate as printed.
0994A — dropped-non (migne, low confidence)
Printed: Sicque ascendens in excelsis, qui nunc appares obtutibus carnis, adesto semper oculis cordis ut te in fide retineamus quem aspectu non cernimus.
Conjecture: qui non appares (or non iam appares) obtutibus carnis
The same sentence ends 'ut te in fide retineamus QUEM ASPECTU NON CERNIMUS' — we hold in faith the one we do not see; and the sentence before it is 'Qui conversatus es nobiscum in terris, pronus regredere ad superna' (the Ascension is already past). 'Now thou appearest to the gaze of the flesh' asserts the opposite of its own clause. Marked low because 'nunc' can be strained into a dramatic present at the moment of ascending.