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 →
PL 113, cols 1183C–1232A · 18 chunks · translated 2026-08-29 by four agents (0000–0004, 0005–0009, 0010–0013, 0014–0017). This file is the MERGE of their four cruces files; the per-stint files are preserved below in full, unedited, under their own headings. Nothing has been summarised away.
⭐ WORK-WIDE CONVENTIONS — reconciled at the merge, 2026-08-29
Read this before touching the English. These are the decisions that differed between stints and were settled work-wide. A later sweep that "fixes" one of them will be re-introducing the drift this section exists to remove.
1. Migne's elision formula usque ad → as far as (settled; 135 occurrences)
The stints split cleanly down the middle: 0000–0009 rendered it "down to" (48×) and 0010–0017 "as far as" (88×) — one work, two renderings of the same editorial formula, which is precisely the failure the merge step exists to catch (cf. 11551's stylus/"epistyle" split, 11063's ALLEGORICE).
Resolved to "as far as", because it is the form already shipped in the sister Glossa books — 8976 (Acts) and 8985 — and this is an editorial formula, not a lemma. The "each commentary stands on its own" ruling (do not harmonise a LEMMA across works) does not reach it: harmonising Migne's own abridgement mark across the Glossa is desirable, and one voice per work is required regardless.
⚠ Two genuine prose uses of "down to" survive and are CORRECT — "despising to be bowed down to earthly things" and "come down to us from above". They carry no asterisk. Any future sweep must match the italic formula (down to / *down to:), never the bare words.
⚠ One site, 0003 @1191D, prints the formula with no closing asterisk — as far as He taketh seven other spirits… — because the Latin does the same (usque ad Assumit septem alios spiritus nequiores se): the italic runs on through the quoted continuation. That is mirrored deliberately. Do not "repair" it.
2. impius → ungodly (settled; 10 Latin occurrences)
Three renderings were in use across the work: "impious" (0005, 0006, 0008), "wicked" (0006's Ps. 1 quotation, 0013), "ungodly" (0014, 0015). Normalised to ungodly, the form shipped in 8985 (2/2).
⛔ The other occurrences of "wicked" in this work are CORRECT and must not be swept: they render nequam, iniquus, nequior and malitia, not impius — e.g. "wicked servants" @1217C, "the offerings of the wicked" @1218D, "more wicked than himself" @1191D. The normalisation was applied site by site against the Latin, never by find-and-replace on the English.
3. Non-words: carried through, per Pattern 7 — NOT rendered for the evident sense
⚠ A live contradiction in the corpus, flagged not swept. The 0005–0009 stint raised that the sister Glossa work 8976 ruled work-locally that non-words are rendered for their evident sense and not carried, firing no marker on six sites — the opposite of translation-style.md Pattern 7, which Wilson ruled on 2026-07-28: "carry it through… Pattern 7 has no exceptions."
8947 follows Pattern 7. The markers stand; nothing was unwound. 8976's departure is recorded here for a ruling, and is NOT retrofitted (the 2026-08-18 no-retrofit rule).
4. Vocabulary held apart deliberately — do not collapse these
| kept apart | why |
|---|---|
| Libanus the mountain → "Lebanon" vs Libanus the gum → kept Latin | the gloss @1209D is an etymology of the word (in Hebraeo candorem significat: in Graeco, θοῦς); "frankincense" would leave it explaining nothing. Note ad collem thuris IS "the hill of frankincense" — a different word, thus. |
| stultus → "fool" vs fatuus → "senseless man" | CAPUT XXI prints both as lemma-words four verses apart (Fatuus in risu 21:23, Stultus a fenestra 21:26); collapsing them erases a distinction the plate makes. |
| ungula (24:21) kept Latin | the gloss IS Graece ὀνύξ, Latine ungula — "onycha" makes it circular. |
| litare / sacrificare (35:3) kept Latin | the whole gloss is the distinction between them. |
| praecordia → "inward parts" vs cor → "heart" | both stand in one gloss @1216D. |
| scientia "knowledge" vs sapientia "wisdom"; charitas "charity" vs dilectio/amor "love" | inherited from 8976 §V. |
| acharis (20:21) kept Latin inside the italic lemma | Migne's gloss is its etymology. |
Agreed across all four stints, no reconciliation needed: doctor → teacher (never "doctor" — 0 occurrences work-wide), praedicator → "preacher", CAPUT N. → "CHAPTER N.", VERS. N.-- kept verbatim, virtus decided per occurrence (power of God, virtue where moral), second person per Pattern 17 (tu thou/thee/thy, vos you).
5. Greek
All 8 Greek words are reproduced in Greek script with accents intact, none transliterated: φοινίκον · ἐλαἴον · ἐλαία · πλατός · ἄκανθον · στακτήμ · ὀνύξ · θοῦς. They fall almost entirely in CAPUT XXIV (chunk 0010).
6. Plate status — ⭐ THE GATE HAS BEEN RUN (2026-08-29)
All 22 pages bearing a marker were read at Migne's plate, covering all 69 original markers. Scan raw/scans/pl113/patrologiaecurs04migngoog.pdf, PDF page = (column + 11)/2, corner numbers read BEFORE the text on every page, every site re-verified at 600 dpi. Reads recorded in data/plate-reads.json; node scripts/plate-gate.mjs 8947 passes.
⛔ Our scan CLIPS THE LEFT MARGIN inside this work (pp. 598, 604, 620). Left-column sites were settled at the Gallica second witness ark:/12148/bpt6k5505319w, f = (column + 1)/2.
Result — and it ran hard in both directions:
[var:] | 56 of 56 CONFIRMED on the plate. Not one was withdrawn. |
[sic:] standing | 4 — magnituditudinem 1184C, obsentiamus 1197A, reconciliatione 1207A, erudiunmultos 1210D |
[sic:] WITHDRAWN as false | 9 — every one was a Corpus Corporum corruption we were about to blame on Migne |
[sic:] newly owed | 4 — defects of Migne's own type that CC had silently repaired, invisible to every check we run |
⭐ Nine of thirteen [sic:] markers were false accusations against Migne — misericodia (plate: misericordia), ex (plate: et), Possuntt (plate: Possunt), Ad monitio (plate hyphenates Ad-/monitio = Admonitio, the 8946 rejoin class), Domini (plate: Domino), cum (plate: eum), nunde (plate: nunc/de), jurejarando (plate: jurejurando), JesusChristus (plate: two words). All withdrawn; TEI patched.
⭐ And four of Migne's own defects had been hidden from us by CC's silent tidying: loquendeum 1190C, descretur 1199D, interrogatia 1200C, orationm 1202C. Restored by TEI patch and now carried with a [sic:] per Pattern 7. ⚑ Note what this means: the translating agents could not have found these, because our Latin already read correctly. Only the plate shows them.
All 13 corrections are in data/tei-patches/8947.json, which runs in both directions.
Agent batch: chunks 0000–0004, cols 1183C–1196C (CAPUT I – CAPUT XI). No foot-of-page conjecture apparatus is available for this work (plate spot check 2026-08-29 records none on the pages read); every reading below is rendered as printed and conjectured only here.
A. Carried type and non-construing readings (Pattern 7 / 12)
### 1184C — magnituditudinem Printed: vel magnituditudinem bonitatis ejus et misericordiae. Non-word (dittographic syllable). Carried as [sic: magnituditudinem]. Conjecture: magnitudinem, near-certain. The clause keeps its governing verb (posse … penetrare) and its negation (neminem) outside the marker.
### 1184D — bracketed supply [non est in charitate] inside the 1 John 4:18 lemma Printed: Timor [non est in charitate] animae in charitate, [n: (Joan. IV)], etc. The square brackets are in the source, not ours. The bracketed words are the Vulgate's (1 Jn 4:18 Timor non est in charitate); what remains outside them, animae in charitate, does not construe with them. Rendered with the bracket preserved and its contents translated (they are scripture, not an al. variant). Not marked [sic:]: the type is legible and the bracket looks editorial. ⚠ Candidate left-margin clip: this sits at the head of a column band. Plate check wanted.
### 1187D–1188A — Cui Deum honorem constituit Printed: Cui Deum honorem constituit, non debet a filiis inhonorari. Rendered literally as a double accusative ("He for whom he appointed God as his honour…"). Conjecture: Cui Deus honorem constituit, "for whom God appointed honour" — which is what the following clause (quia Deus judicio suo exquiret) expects. Not emended in the text.
### 1189C — Per fores autem potes Scripturas et eorum doctores intelligit. Second-person potes and third-person intelligit in one clause; it will not construe. Rendered as closely as the printed words allow ("And by the doors thou canst, he understands the Scriptures and their teachers"). Conjectures: potest … intelligi, or potes … intelligere. Both are real words, so nothing is carried under Pattern 12.
### 1196B — nec immunes sunt a dilecto dilecto is a real word (abl. of dilectus), so it is rendered, not carried: "nor are they free from the beloved." Conjecture: delicto, "from fault" — which is what quia meditatio eorum est in dolo in the same sentence requires. Logged, not repaired.
### 1186A / 1194C — Hypocrita.. and VERS 37.-- Printed punctuation preserved: the double stop after Hypocrita (1186A) and the missing stop after VERS at 1193C. Pattern 8, not defects of ours.
B. Vulgate divergences marked [var: …] in the text
| col | Migne prints | Vulgate | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1184C | in mandatis ejus cupit nimis (Ps 111:1) | volet nimis | verb changed; the gloss does not turn on it |
| 1184D | Timor Domini sanctus permanet in saeculum saeculi (Ps 18:10) | permanens | ⚠ the SAME verse is printed correctly as permanens at 1187C, four columns later — internal evidence that 1184D is the defective setting |
| 1185B | Non amat pestilens eum qui se corrigit (Prov 15:12) | corripit, "him that rebuketh him" | reflexive vs. transitive; changes who is corrected |
| 1185C | qui autem fatuus est aperuit stultitiam (Prov 13:16) | aperiet | perfect for future |
| 1185C–D | ostendat conversationem bonam in mansuetudine sapientiae (Jas 3:13) | ostendat ex bona conversatione operationem suam | the object of ostendat is different |
| 1186D | Beatus qui confidit in Domino, et erit Deus fiducia ejus (Jer 17:7) | Benedictus vir qui confidit in Domino, et erit Dominus fiducia ejus | opening and divine name both diverge |
| 1186D | Qui autem dereliquerint Deum, confundentur et in terra scribentur (Jer 17:13) | omnes qui te derelinquunt confundentur; recedentes a te in terra scribentur | second-person address of the Vulgate lost |
| 1187A | Prope est Deus omnibus invocantibus se in veritate (Ps 144:18) | Prope est Dominus omnibus invocantibus eum | divine name; cf. the timor/amor risk class |
| 1188B | maxime qui laborant in doctrina et verbo (1 Tim 5:17) | in verbo et doctrina | word order reversed |
| 1188D | thesaurizas tibi iram in die judicii (Rom 2:5) | in die irae | |
| 1189A | Vade et revertere, cum cito possis dare (Prov 3:28) | cras dabo tibi: cum statim possis dare | |
| 1189A–B | clamabit, et non exaudiet Dominus (Prov 21:13) | et ipse clamabit, et non exaudietur | passive turned active with a supplied subject; the negation is present in both and is carried |
| 1189B | substantiam mundi … fratrem suum necesse habentem (1 Jn 3:17) | substantiam hujus mundi … necessitatem habere | ⚠ the SAME verse is printed with hujus mundi … necesse habere at 1193C |
| 1190A | Negotia, dum venio (Lk 19:13) | Negotiamini | Negotia is a real (if rare) active imperative, so it is rendered, not carried |
| 1190C | stultitia magis speranda est, quam correctio illius (Prov 29:20) | quam illius correptio | word and order |
| 1191A | lemma Amicus fortis (Sir 6:14) | Amicus fidelis protectio fortis | the adjective has migrated onto amicus; the gloss at VERS. 16 then repeats Amicus fidelis |
| 1191B | lemma Qui timet Dominum (Sir 6:17) | Qui timet Deum | ⚠ MODERATE confidence — verify on the plate |
| 1191C | ut cognoscant te solum verum Deum (Jn 17:3) | solum Deum verum | word order |
| 1192A | Non est homo super terram, qui faciat bonum (Eccl 7:21) | Non est enim homo justus in terra | justus absent from Migne |
| 1192A | et magis illo spem habet stultus (Prov 26:12) | magis illo spem habebit insipiens | |
| 1192B | lemma Noli amare mendacium (Sir 7:13) | Noli arare mendacium | ⚠ the strongest single finding in this batch: the Vulgate's odd "plough a lie" has become "love a lie", and the gloss (Omne mendacium malum) is compatible with either, so nothing on the page flags it |
| 1194A | blanditiis labiorum traxit eum (Prov 7:21) | protraxit illum | |
| 1194D | Praecipe divitibus non altum sapere (1 Tim 6:17) | Divitibus hujus saeculi praecipe non sublime sapere | |
| 1195D | Homo enim videt ea quae patent (1 Sam 16:7) | quae parent, "the things that appear" | both are real words; the sense shift is small but real |
C. Divergences observed and NOT marked (logged only)
Truncated lemmas are not listed; only mid-lemma or mid-quotation differences judged too small, or too uncertain against the recension this gloss follows, to carry a [var:].
- 1185A Jas 1:26 Si quis putat… — Vulg Si quis autem putat.
- 1185D Timor Domini sapientiae et disciplinae custodia est (n. cites Prov. XIII) — no Vulgate verse matches; closest is Prov 15:33 Timor Domini disciplina sapientiae.
- 1186A/B Ps "LXI" Disperdet enim Deus omnes qui loquuntur mendacium — Ps 5:7 has Perdes omnes; and Mt 24:51 ibi for Vulg illic.
- 1187A Rom 1:17 Justus enim ex fide vivit — Vulg autem.
- 1187C–D Finis enim praecepti charitas — 1 Tim 1:5 has autem … est; the second half is Rom 13:8. A conflation, printed without a note marker.
- 1188A Eph 3:15 in coelo for Vulg in caelis.
- 1188C Dan 4:24 opening reshaped (Consilium meum, o rex, placeat tibi).
- 1189A Prov 14:21 drops suum and autem. 1189C Prov 24:11 illos for eos.
- 1189C Prov 8:34 vigilat ante fores meas for ad fores meas.
- 1190B Mt 5:29 drops dexter; Lk 9:23 venire post me for post me venire.
- 1190B 1 Cor 4:20 drops enim and est.
- 1190C vs 1192C Jas 1:19 is printed WITHOUT autem at 1190C and WITH it at 1192C — the same internal-inconsistency shape as the Ps 18:10 and 1 Jn 3:17 pairs above.
- 1190D lemma Nolite fieri (Sir 6:1) — Clementine has singular Noli fieri. Not marked: this gloss's verse numbering diverges from the Clementine throughout (e.g. eleemosyna at CAP. III VERS. 15, not 3:33), so the underlying recension is not settled.
- 1191A Rom 16:17 omits praeter doctrinam quam vos didicistis.
- 1191B Jn 15:15 quae for quaecumque. 1192A Lk 11:26 drops secum.
- 1192B Rom 1:32 consentiunt facienti for facientibus; Prov 26:18–19 reshaped and cited as (Prov. XX).
- 1193B Sir 30:10 arrideas … obstupescant for corrideas … obstupescent.
- 1193B Sive enim servi, sive liberi, omnes in Christo unum sumus — 1 Cor 12:13 conflated with Gal 3:28.
- 1194C Vae terrae cujus rex puer est is Eccl 10:16, cited (Isa. IX); and Manducemus et bibamus matches 1 Cor 15:32, cited (Isa. XXII). Anaphoric references left untouched per the standing rule.
- 1194D / 1195A 1 Tim 6:10 printed three ways in three columns: Radix enim omnium malorum est cupiditas (1193D), Radix enim omnium malorum cupiditas (1194D), Radix omnium malorum cupiditas (1195A).
- 1195C Jas 2:1 heavily truncated; Ps 33:11 printed Divites autem eguerunt at 1195C and Divites eguerunt at 1196C.
- 1195C lemma Magnus est judex (Sir 10:27) — Clementine Magnus, et judex, et potens est in honore. Not marked: uncertain against this recension.
- 1195D 2 Cor 10:17 drops autem; 1 Sam 16:7 Non … nec for Ne … neque, and drops ego.
- 1196B Fili, ne facias multos libros, quibus non est finis is attributed to Ecclesiasticus but is Eccl 12:12 (Faciendi plures libros nullus est finis). The negation non est finis is Migne's and is carried.
D. Notes on structure (no action)
- Column bands run 1183C → 1183D → 1184C in chunk 0000 and 1188D → 1189A across the 0001/0002 boundary. Per the standing ruling these are positional quarter-guides; no text breaks mid-word or mid-construction at any anchor in this batch.
- CAPUT VII and CAPUT IX each open with a lemma carrying no
VERS.number. Printed so. - No Greek occurs in chunks 0000–0004 (the Ecclus. 24 spice list falls later in the work).
Stint: chunks 0005, 0006, 0007, 0008, 0009 = CAPUT XII–XXIII, cols 1196C–1208B. Latin words 4,531. verify-english.mjs clean; column anchors and [n:] notes at exact 1:1 parity with the Latin twins in all five chunks; zero em-dashes, zero guillemets (the Latin twin prints none).
Apparatus fired in this stint: 17 [var:] · 4 [sic:] · 0 [cj:] · 0 [d:] · 0 [ed:] · 0 [nt:] · 0 [f:]. Every one is listed below with its column for the plate check.
⚠ No editorial apparatus was available. The 2026-08-29 spot read of this work (pp. 597–598 = cols 1183–1186) found no foot-of-page conjecture notes, and the spot coverage does not license extending that to cols 1196–1208. Nothing below was settled against Migne's own conjecture, because there is none in hand. The left-margin clipping confirmed at p. 598 did not recur in any column of this stint: no lemma or gloss in 0005–0009 has lost word-openings at a column start.
§V · LOAD-BEARING VOCABULARY (for the merge)
Fixed at first occurrence and never varied inside this stint. Where the peer stint (0000–0004) had already committed, I inherited from it rather than re-deciding.
| Latin | English | note |
|---|---|---|
| usque ad (in Migne's abridged Raban excerpts) | down to | inherited from the peer stint 0000–0004. The sister Glossa work 8976 (Acts) uses as far as; within 8947 the peer's form governs. |
| CAPUT | CHAPTER | |
| VERS. N.-- | kept verbatim, unanglicized | |
| doctrina | teaching | never "doctrine", even in sana doctrina → "sound teaching" (1199A). Peer stint uses "teaching" at 1189C. |
| doctor | teacher | officium doctoris = "the office of a teacher" (1197B); sancti doctores = "the holy teachers" (1206A). Peer uses "teachers" for doctores at 1189C. |
| stultus | fool / foolish | |
| fatuus | senseless (man) | held apart from stultus deliberately: CAPUT XXI prints both as lemma-words within four verses (Fatuus in risu 21:23, Stultus a fenestra 21:26) and collapsing them would erase the plate's own distinction. |
| insipiens | senseless only in the fixed Ps. 48 tag, rendered "beasts without understanding" (1201A) to avoid colliding with fatuus | |
| sensus | sense / understanding | "understanding" where it means the mind's grasp, "sense" where it means the meaning of a text. |
| haereticus / catholicus | heretic / catholic (lower case, as Migne prints) | |
| Ecclesia | the Church (capital, mirrored from the plate) | |
| Synagoga | the Synagogue | |
| eleemosyna | alms / almsgiving | |
| timor Domini | the fear of the Lord | Ps. 110:10 at 1202D checked word-for-word: Migne prints timor, not amor. So does every other occurrence in this stint. |
| Mystice / Allegorice / Historice / Moraliter / Tropologice / ad litteram | Mystically / Allegorically / Historically / Morally / Tropologically / according to the letter | adverbs, following the plate's adverbs (Pattern 9 precedent, 11057). |
| casula (Ecclus. 14:25) | "little dwelling" | no gloss depends on the word. |
| loramentum (Ecclus. 22:19) | "binding" / "wooden binding" | the gloss expounds ligna and fundamentum, not the binding itself. |
| acharis (Ecclus. 20:21) | kept as Latin inside the italic lemma | Migne's gloss IS the etymology (Sine gratia Spiritus sancti; vel amarus) — case 2 of the "each commentary stands on its own" ruling. No second italic marker inside an italic lemma (Pattern 10). |
⛔ §1 · THE VULGATE COLLATION — every lemma and every quotation, collated word by word
Collated against the on-disk Clementine text (sources/vulgate/clementine/), not from memory. Truncation is not divergence and no short lemma is reported below. Roughly 130 lemmata and inline quotations were collated; the ones that agree are not listed.
§1a · MARKED [var:] — 12, with columns for the plate check
| col | Migne prints | Vulgate | why it is material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1197B | Si enim sal infatuatum fuerit, ad nihilum valet ultra (Matth. 5:13) | Quod si sal evanuerit, in quo salietur? ad nihilum valet ultra | different verb, and the Vulgate's question is absent entirely. The gloss applies it to the heretic-teacher who claims to be a physician of souls. |
| 1198D | Operamini dum dies est: venit enim nox, quando jam non licet operari (Joan. 9:4) | Me oportet operari opera ejus qui misit me, donec dies est: venit nox, quando nemo potest operari | Migne turns a first-person statement into a plural imperative and the argument rests on the imperative ("he exhorts that we offer"). |
| 1199B | Qui biberit aquam quam ego dabo vobis, fiet in eo fons aquae salientis in vitam aeternam (Joan. 4:14) | qui autem biberit ex aqua quam ego dabo ei, non sitiet in aeternum: sed aqua quam ego dabo ei, fiet in eo… | conflated, and plural vobis against Vulg. singular ei, with fiet in eo singular left standing after it. |
| 1199D | quoniam justus Deus, et justitias dilexit (Psal. 10:8) | quoniam justus Dominus, et justitias dilexit | ⭐ a divine-name swap, and this work quotes the same verse correctly at 1202C (Justus Dominus, et justitias dilexit: aequitatem vidit vultus ejus). Two printings of one verse, four columns apart, disagreeing. |
| 1199D | A tribus impiis deseretur (Ecclus. 16:5, lemma) | tribus impiorum deseretur | ⭐⭐ the strongest lemma finding in the stint. Vulg = "the tribe of the impious shall be made desolate"; Migne = "by three impious men it shall be deserted". The gloss expounds Migne's reading, not the Vulgate's: qui cogitatione, locutione, opere seipsos sequestrant — thought, word, deed, three of them. 7a″ exactly: the exposition rests on a word that is not in the received text. |
| 1200B | interrogatio hominum (Ecclus. 16:22, lemma) | interrogatio omnium | the gloss then names the classes of men (idolaters, heretics, false catholics), following hominum. |
| 1201B | Statuit terminos gentium juxta numerum angelorum Dei (Deut. 32:8) | constituit terminos populorum juxta numerum filiorum Israel | ⭐⭐ the LXX/Vet. Lat. reading, and the whole gloss depends on it: the lemma is Rectorem and the gloss reads it as Angelos, quibus commisit Deus custodiam singularum gentium. On the Clementine reading the proof-text proves nothing. |
| 1201C | Currite dum lucem habetis, ne tenebrae vos comprehendant (Joan. 12:35) | Ambulate dum lucem habetis, ut non vos tenebrae comprehendant | different verb; the urgency ("Run") is the point of the gloss (non est tempus operandi, sed praemium recipiendi). |
| 1202B | Sermo durus suscitat rixas, lenis mitigat suscitatas (cited Prov. XV) | Prov. 15:1 sermo durus suscitat furorem; Prov. 15:18 qui patiens est mitigat suscitatas | a conflation of two verses four columns apart in Proverbs, with rixas for furorem and lenis for qui patiens est. Cited again at 1207B in the same conflated form, so it is Migne's stable text here, not a one-off slip. |
| 1203D | Qui enim scit voluntatem domini et non facit, vapulabit paucis (Luc. 12:47) | …vapulabit multis | ⭐⭐⭐ the most consequential finding of the stint. The Vulgate gives multis to the servant who KNEW and paucis to the one who did not; Migne's 1203D gives paucis to the one who knew, inverting the verse, and then glosses it exiguo enim conceditur misericordia — building an argument on the inverted reading. And this same work prints the verse correctly at 1206C: Servus enim qui scit voluntatem domini sui, et non facit: vapulabit multis. Qui autem nescit, paucis. Three columns apart, the plate contradicts itself. Rendered as printed at 1203D per Pattern 7; the [var:] carries the received reading. Plate-check both 1203D and 1206C together. |
| 1204C | Voca pauperes et debiles, caecos, claudos, et beatus eris (Luc. 14:13) | voca pauperes, debiles, claudos, et caecos: et beatus eris | word order of the last pair reversed, plus et inserted after pauperes. Reported because the pair is a fixed list. |
| 1205B | Bonus homo de bono thesauro cordis sui profert bonum (Matth. 12:35) | Bonus homo de bono thesauro profert bona | cordis sui imported from Luc. 6:45; singular bonum for plural bona. |
| 1205C | Adversarius noster diabolus (I Petr. 5:8) | adversarius vester | first person for second. A person-of-pronoun swap has a full English exponent, which is why it is marked and the eum/eam case below is not. |
| 1206D | Sicut paleae, etc. (Ecclus. 22:21, lemma) | Sicut pali in excelsis, et caementa sine impensa posita | ⭐⭐ paleae (chaff) for pali (stakes) — a completely different image, and the gloss follows Migne by supplying the house built on sand (Matth. 7:26) rather than stakes on high ground. |
| 1207D | Anima callida (Ecclus. 23:22, lemma) | Anima calida quasi ignis ardens | ⭐⭐ callida (crafty) for calida (hot), one letter. Migne's own gloss contradicts his own lemma: it reads ardentem animam habent — a burning soul — which is calida. So the plate diverges from the Vulgate in the lemma and agrees with it in the gloss, in one entry. |
| 1208A | Haec in Ecclesia (Ecclus. 23:34, lemma) | Haec in ecclesiam adducetur | ablative for accusative, and the verb is gone. The gloss reads it locatively (in conventu fidelium… declaratur), so the divergence is what is expounded. |
(All sixteen rows carry a [var:] in the text — 1197B, 1198D, 1199B, 1199D ×2, 1200B, 1201B, 1201C, 1202B, 1203D, 1204C, 1205B, 1205C, 1206D, 1207D, 1208A — and a seventeenth sits at 1203B (Ecclus. 19:7 verbum durum et nequam for Vulg. verbum nequam et durum), listed with the unmarked divergences in §1b because the pair's order is all that moved. 17 [var:] in all.)
§1b · COLLATED DIVERGENCES DELIBERATELY LEFT UNMARKED
Real differences from the Clementine text that fire no marker, because English has no exponent for them or the sense does not turn on them. Listed so that a later sweep does not re-derive them, and so that the absence of a marker is itself on the record.
- 1196D Amos 1:3 non convertam eam (Vulg. eum). Grammatical gender only; English "it" either way (Pattern 9 — no English exponent). ⚠ Note the negation non IS printed and IS carried.
- 1196D Tob. 4:18 Panem tuum et vinum (Vulg. vinum tuum). One dropped possessive.
- 1197A Matth. 7:6 Nolite sanctum dare canibus (Vulg. Nolite dare sanctum canibus). Word order; no English exponent.
- 1197C Ecclus. 13:2 lemma Pondus super se tollet (Vulg. tollat). Future indicative for jussive subjunctive. Left unmarked because the gloss (Haec moraliter nos instruunt) reads it as instruction either way; recorded because it is a mood change, which normally would be material.
- 1198A Prov. 26:11 ita qui iterat stultitiam suam (Vulg. sic imprudens qui iterat). One dropped noun; sense unchanged.
- 1198B Prov. 19:4 a paupere vero (Vulg. a paupere autem). Connective only.
- 1198C Jac. 3:2 Qui in verbo non offendit, perfectus est (Vulg. Si quis in verbo non offendit, hic perfectus est vir). Compression; both negations present and carried.
- 1199C Jac. 1:13 Deus intentator malorum est (Vulg. Deus enim intentator).
- 1199D Ecclus. 16:6 lemma Multa talia vidit oculus (Vulg. oculis meus, itself odd in the Clementine). Dropped possessive.
- 1199D Ecclus. 16:12 lemma Misericordia enim et ira cum illo (Vulg. et ira est cum illo).
- 1200C Rom. 2:13 Non enim auditores legis justificantur, sed factores (Vulg. auditores legis justi sunt apud Deum, sed factores legis justificabuntur). Compressed; sense held.
- 1201B Ecclus. 17:13 lemma Coram illo (Vulg. coram ipso). No English exponent.
- 1201D Ecclus. 18:1 lemma Qui vivit in aeternum (Vulg. Qui vivet in aeternum). Present for future, one letter, and a very widely attested Vulgate variant. This one is a judgement call: it has an English exponent ("liveth"/"shall live") and I rendered the present. If the merge wants a thirteenth
[var:], this is the candidate. - 1202A Ecclus. 18:14 lemma Excipiens doctrinam (Vulg. Miseretur excipientis doctrinam miserationis). Nominative for genitive; the lemma is being re-cut as a heading.
- 1203A Ecclus. 18:32 quoted in the gloss as Non oblecteris in turbis (Vulg. Ne oblecteris). ⚠ A negation-form difference, checked deliberately: both are negative, and English ("Be not delighted") has no exponent for ne vs non. The negation is present in Migne and present in the English.
- 1203B Ecclus. 19:7 lemma verbum durum et nequam (Vulg. verbum nequam et durum). Word order of a fixed pair — reported per the brief, marked
[var:]in the text because the pair is quoted as a unit. - 1203C Ecclus. 19:16 lemma Est qui labitur lingua sua (Vulg. lingua, no possessive).
- 1204B Ecclus. 20:6 lemma Est autem tacens.
- 1204C Rom. 5:20 ubi abundavit delictum, superabundet gratia (Vulg. superabundavit). Migne's own framing Ut governs the subjunctive, so the change is grammatically motivated.
- 1204D Ecclus. 20:22 lemma Fatui reprobabitur parabola (Vulg. Ex ore fatui reprobabitur parabola). The lemma drops the head of the verse rather than its tail — the reverse of ordinary incipit truncation. Recorded for that reason, not for the sense.
- 1205A Luc. 9:26 Qui erubuerit me et meos sermones, hunc erubescet Filius hominis (Vulg. Nam qui me erubuerit, et meos sermones: hunc Filius hominis erubescet cum venerit in majestate sua). Word order and truncation.
- 1205B Eccle. 7:20–21 Non est enim qui faciat bonum, et non peccet (Vulg. non est enim homo justus in terra qui faciat bonum et non peccet). Both negations carried.
- 1205D Ecclus. 21:11 lemma Via peccantium (Vulg. Via peccatorum). Participle for noun; "them that sin" / "sinners" is barely an exponent.
- 1206A Ecclus. 21:18 lemma Displicet illi (Vulg. displicebit illi).
- 1206C II Joan. 11 Qui enim dixerit ei ave, communicat ejus operibus malignis (Vulg. Qui enim dicit illi Ave, communicat operibus ejus malignis).
- 1206D Ecclus. 22:19, the gloss's own re-quotation: Loramentum ergo ligneum colligatum fundamento aedificii non dissolvitur (Vulg. colligatum in fundamento… non dissolvetur). Present for future, and a dropped preposition, inside a re-quotation the commentator makes of his own lemma — so the divergence is between Migne's gloss and Migne's Vulgate, not only between Migne and the Clementine.
- 1206D Matth. 7:26 similis est viro stulto, qui aedificat domum suam super arenam (Vulg. similis erit viro stulto, qui aedificavit). Tenses; and the quotation is unitalicized in the plate, so it is unitalicized in the English (Pattern 8a family).
- 1207A Ecclus. 23:15 lemma Est alia loquela (Vulg. Est et alia loquela).
§1c · MIGNE'S OWN [n:] CITATIONS THAT POINT TO THE WRONG PLACE
Reproduced verbatim and untranslated in every case, per the note rule. Recorded here only so the indexer's refKey resolution has the true target, and so nobody proposes a text change. ⚠ None of these is a defect claim.
- 1199B
[n: (Joan. XIV)]on Qui biberit aquam → Joan. 4:14. - 1200A
[n: (Joan. XIV)]on Qui habet mandata mea → correct, Joan. 14:21. - 1198A
[n: (Prov. VI)]on Sicut canis revertitur ad vomitum → Prov. 26:11. - 1197D
[n: (Eccle. XXVII)]on Stultus ut luna mutatur → Ecclus. 27:12 (this book, not Ecclesiastes; the same abbreviation Eccle. serves both in this work — see 1205B). - 1201A
[n: (Ephes. IX)]on Induite novum hominem → Ephes. 4:24. Ephesians has six chapters; "IX" cannot be right, but it is what the plate carries. - 1203B
[n: (I Cor. XII)]on Omnia credit, omnia sperat → I Cor. 13:7. - 1205B
[n: (Eccle. VII)]on Non est enim qui faciat bonum → Eccl. 7:20–21 (here Ecclesiastes proper). - 1198C
[n: (Psal. XXXVIII)]on Qui thesaurizat → correct, Ps. 38:7.
§2 · MARKED DEFECTS — 3 [sic:], with columns
⭐ 1207A — reconciliatione : a FUSED word-division defect that eats the sentence's negation
Migne prints, at Ecclus. 22:27, in the gloss:
Effugiet amicus. Non rediturus, nec post reconciliationem; unde: Amico reconciliatione credas in aeternum.
The maxim as printed says "trust a reconciled friend for ever" — the exact opposite of the gloss it is adduced to prove, whose own words are Non rediturus, nec post reconciliationem ("not to return, nor after reconciliation"). The received sententia is Amico reconciliato ne credas in aeternum. Migne's reconciliatione is reconciliato + ne run together, the fused direction of Pattern 10 — and the ne it swallows is the clause's only negation.
Treatment, and it is the pair of rules working together:
- Pattern 10: the whole broken run is carried, untranslated, in italics —
[sic: reconciliatione]. - 7a⁗ question 2: does the clause still carry its negation? It does not, so the negation is restored in plain English beside the marker, not inside it. The English reads: To a friend [sic: reconciliatione], once reconciled, trust thou not for ever.
This is precisely 7a⁗-b's dangerous shape: the quarantine is the size of a lexeme, and the lexeme was carrying the negative. Marking the run and letting the sentence go affirmative would have printed, on a reading page, the reverse of what the plate's own next words argue. Plate-check 1207A.
1197B — obsentiamus : a non-word carrying the clause's verb
Non ergo eis obsentiamus, nec potestatem tribuamus. obsentiamus is not a Latin word; the conjecture is assentiamus ("let us not assent to them"), which the dative eis and the coordinate nec potestatem tribuamus both support. Carried untranslated in italics with [sic: obsentiamus] per Pattern 7's non-word class and Pattern 12. 7a⁗ checked: the negation Non is outside the marker and stands in the English, and the coordinate clause supplies a predicate, so the sentence is not left verbless.
⚖ Flagged for the merge as a live disagreement of practice, not as a settled call. The sister Glossa work 8976 (Acts) ruled in its own cruces, work-locally, that non-words are rendered for the evident sense and not carried, and fired no marker on six such sites. I have followed translation-style.md (Pattern 7's non-word ruling, Wilson 2026-07-28) instead, because that is the file my brief names as authoritative. If 8947 wants 8976's practice, this marker and the ones at 1203D and 1205A are the three to unwind — and the unwinding is mechanical, since both cruces entries carry the conjecture. Do not unwind them silently.
1203D — misericodia : a non-word carrying the clause's SUBJECT
Qui enim scit voluntatem domini et non facit, vapulabit paucis: exiguo enim conceditur misericodia. misericodia is misericordia with its r dropped — a single missing letter that leaves a form which is not a word. Carried untranslated in italics with [sic: misericodia] (Pattern 7 / Pattern 12).
7a⁗ checked, and it changed the rendering: the marked run is the clause's subject, so quarantining it alone would have left an English verb with nothing to do it — "for to the small is granted." The sense is therefore supplied beside the marker, in apposition and in plain English: for [sic: misericodia], mercy, is granted in small measure. The verb, the subject and the sense all survive outside the quarantine.
⚠ This is the same column as the Luke 12:47 paucis finding (§1a). One column carrying both an inverted scripture quotation and a broken word is worth reading as a whole. Plate-check 1203D.
1205A — ex : a real word with no grammatical slot
Homo acharis… vel amarus, quia amarum ex noxium sensum ingerit auditoribus. ex governs the ablative and cannot stand between two accusative adjectives agreeing with sensum; the conjecture is et. Marked [sic: ex] under Pattern 12's first test — a real word that has no grammatical slot cannot be carried by any English — and both adjectives are rendered around it, so nothing is swallowed. Plate-check 1205A.
§3 · RENDERED LITERALLY, NO MARKER — the Pattern 7 cases
Each of these is a reading that does not construe, or barely construes. None of them is repaired in the English. There is no Migne conjecture to consult (see the plate note above), so each is rendered as closely as the printed words allow and left here.
⭐ 1203C — ictum : the clause's object is the wrong noun, and the English is nonsense
Stultus enim perturbat sensum, ut gemitum doloris exprimat per actum nefandum: sed non conturbat ictum quidquid acciderit.
Rendered as printed: "but whatever shall have happened disturbs not the blow." The sense the passage plainly needs is a person — the wise man of the opening sentence (Non aequaliter stultum et sapientem commovet stultum verbum), and the next clause is about illi qui de firmitate cordis confidit. The likeliest conjecture is justum, "the just man" (ictum / justum, an easy misreading); sapientem would also serve the sense but is not close to the type.
⚠ Deliberately NOT marked [cj:]. Pattern 18 fires where the faithful English misleads — where a reader takes away a false claim and never knows. "Disturbs not the blow" misleads nobody; it is visibly broken, and a reader who meets it knows to look. Firing [cj:] here would put our conjecture on the page for a case that does not need protecting, which is the spam direction of that marker. ⚠ Note also that the negation non is printed, is carried, and is not what is wrong with the sentence.
1196D — a verbless fragment after the Amos citation
Dubiam et dolosam doctrinam, quam in expositione divinae Scripturae expendunt.
An accusative noun phrase with a relative clause and no governing verb — rendered as the fragment it is: "A doubtful and deceitful teaching, which they expend in the exposition of Holy Scripture." It reads as a stranded gloss on a lemma that is not printed (Ecclus. 12:4 territory). 7a⁗ question 1 asked and answered: nothing was quarantined here, so nothing was swallowed; the verblessness is the plate's. Rendered, not repaired. Worth a plate read at 1196D — if anything is lost before Dubiam, it is source loss and would take an [ed:], not a [sic:].
1198D — cruciendam for cruciandam
Gerundive of cruciare in -endam rather than -andam. Rendered normally ("to be tormented"), no italics, no marker: first/third-conjugation gerundive confusion is an attested medieval orthographic habit, and Pattern 9 explicitly reserves carry-through for forms unique to this plate. Recorded so a later sweep does not churn it.
1206C — a sentence that simply stops
The Raban excerpt at Ecclus. 22:10 ends …mors enim corporis, finis laboris mundani with no terminal mark at all. Pattern 8: never supply. The English stops where the plate stops, without a period. Not a defect of ours.
1201C — postquam, which does construe
In praesenti vita, postquam non est tempus operandi, sed praemium recipiendi. Read as post quam ("after which"), which construes and matches the parallel argument at 1198D (post mortem enim… non est tempus operandi, sed mercedem recipiendi). Checked and dismissed as a non-defect — recorded because it looks like one at first sight.
§4 · CHECKED NON-DEFECTS — do not spend a plate read on these
- Column bands. The stint runs 1196D → 1208B with the ordinary A–D pattern; no anchor breaks a word or a construction. No band arithmetic was performed, per the standing rule.
- Repeated
##heads. None: each of CAPUT XII–XXIII opens once, in its own chunk. - Pattern 4
[f:]. Not fired, and correctly so — this is lemma-and-gloss commentary, which the brief's false-positive list rules out explicitly. noteCountfrontmatter. 0006's frontmatter says 27 and its body carries 28[n:]. Body-to-body parity with the Latin twin is exact (28 = 28), which is the test that matters.- Guillemets. The Latin twin prints none in any of these five chunks; the English prints none. Straight quotes were not needed either: every quotation in this stint is marked by Migne's own italics.
- Ecclus. verse numbering. Migne's VERS. N headings track the Clementine numbering exactly throughout CAPUT XII–XXIII, including the awkward joins (VERS. 5, 6 at 20:5–6; VERS. 9, 10 at 23:9–10; VERS. 13 with a single hyphen at 17:13, which is the plate's punctuation and is kept).
- Ecclus. 19:4 (Qui credit, glossed at 1203B) has no verse 4 in the on-disk Clementine file, which jumps 19:3 → 19:5. That is a gap in our witness, not in Migne. No marker.
§5 · FOR THE MERGE
- §V is the vocabulary table. The only term where I could see the peer stint had already committed is usque ad → "down to", and I inherited it. doctrina/doctor were checked against 0002 and agree.
- The 8976-vs-Pattern-7 non-word split (§2) needs a ruling, and it is a two-marker change either way.
- 1203D and 1206C must be plate-read as a pair — the same Luke 12:47 quoted two ways three columns apart is either the most interesting thing in this work or a transcription artifact, and only the plate can say which.
- 1199D and 1202C are the same pair-shape for Ps. 10:8 (justus Deus / justus Dominus).
- Nothing in this stint was left untranslated and no chunk was abridged. Five files, five complete chapters' worth of glosses, all lemmata collated.
Agent batch: chunks 0010–0013, cols 1208C–1219C (CAPUT XXIV – CAPUT XXXVI). 1,081 + 1,138 + 1,024 + 1,108 Latin words. Note parity 28 / 27 / 22 / 25 exact; column anchors 11 / 11 / 11 / 12, all verbatim and in order.
Apparatus fired in this batch: 8 [var:] · 1 [sic:] · 0 [d:] · 0 [ed:] · 0 [nt:] · 0 [cj:] · 0 [cn:]. Zero em-dashes. Zero guillemets.
No foot-of-page conjecture apparatus is available for this work (the 2026-08-29 plate spot check, cols 1183–1186, records none on the pages read, and coverage is "spot"). Every reading below is rendered as printed and conjectured only here. ⚠ The same read confirms the scan clips the left margin inside this work; nothing in cols 1208C–1219C looked clipped to me, but §A.7 and §C.3 are the two candidates if a plate read is ever run.
§V · Vocabulary fixed in this batch — for the merge
Inherited from 8976 §V (Glossa on Acts, the sister book) without change: doctor → teacher (never "doctors"), praedicator → preacher, charitas → charity vs. dilectio/amor → love, scientia → knowledge vs. sapientia → wisdom, usque ad → as far as, Ecclesia capitalization mirrors the plate, virtus decided per occurrence. VERS. N.-- and ## CHAPTER N. follow 8976's shipped format exactly, including whether the head carries a final stop (CAPUT XXIV does not; XXV–XXXVI do).
Fixed here, at first occurrence, and held across all four chunks:
| Latin | English | why |
|---|---|---|
| Libanus (mountain, 24:17; sub Libano monte, 24:36) | Lebanon | it is the mountain, and the gloss says so (mons est Phoenicis). |
| Libanus (the gum, 24:21) | Libanus, kept Latin | the gloss is an etymology of the word — in Hebraeo candorem significat: in Graeco, θοῦς — and "frankincense" would leave that etymology explaining nothing. Held apart from the mountain deliberately: a later sweep collapsing the two destroys the distinction the plate makes. Note the SAME gloss renders ad collem thuris (Cant. 4:6) as "unto the hill of frankincense" — that is thus, a different word. |
| ungula (24:21) | ungula, kept Latin | ditto: the gloss is Ungula est quae in Exodo onycha dicitur … Graece ὀνύξ, Latine ungula. Rendering the lemma "onycha" or "nail" makes the gloss circular. |
| virtus | per occurrence | power at 1208B (virtutis illius, of God), 1208C (Dei virtute, potentia divinitatis); virtue everywhere moral (1208C altioribus … virtutibus, 1216C quatuor principalium virtutum, 1218A aedificium virtutum). Both stand in this range. |
| timor Dei / timor Domini | the fear of God / the fear of the Lord, mirroring the plate word for word | see §B.0. |
| praecordia (33:5) | inward parts | held apart from cor → heart, which stands two clauses later in the same gloss (Cor stultorum). |
| litare / sacrificare (35:3) | kept Latin, italic | the whole gloss is the distinction between them; there is no English pair that carries it. |
| caprea / ibices / avices (27:22) | roe / ibices / avices | caprea is glossed by a Latin pun (quasi capiens ardua) which is reproduced in Latin beside the English; ibices and avices are the names the gloss is explaining, so they stay. avices is not standard Latin but is the form Isidore's etymology needs (ad instar avium) and the gloss states that etymology — so it is rendered as a name, not marked. |
| eleemosyna (29:16–18, 31:28) | alms / almsgiving | on the brief's risk list; both occurrences are in glosses, not lemmas. |
§B · VULGATE COLLATION — every lemma and inline citation, cols 1208C–1219C
Collated word by word against sources/vulgate/clementine-flat.txt (Clementine). Truncation of a lemma is not divergence and is not listed. Migne's coelum/caelum orthography is not listed. Verse-number mismatches are §C.
### B.0 — the timor risk class: CLEAN in this batch Every occurrence of the phrase in cols 1208C–1219C prints timor, never amor: 1211C Timor Dei (lemma, Sir 25:16, agrees with Vulg) · 1213C Qui Deum timet · 1214A quasi semper praesentem pertimescit · 1216C Catholicus enim Deum timens · 1219B mulier timens Deum (the one divine-name divergence, B.2 below). No Amor Domini.
B.1 — marked [var: …] in the text (8)
| chunk | col | Migne prints | Vulgate | why it is marked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0010 | 1209B | Quasi platanus dilatata sum in plateis (Sir 24:19) | quasi platanus exaltata sum juxta aquam in plateis | ⭐ the gloss turns on the divergent word. Migne introduces the quotation with Nomen ergo, et formam arboris expressit dicens, and closes the paragraph Christum significat, qui per membra sua in orbe dilatatur. The Vulgate's exaltata would leave both the introduction and the application explaining nothing; juxta aquam is simply absent. |
| 0010 | 1210D | lemma Ego quasi fluvius Dorix (Sir 24:41) | ego quasi fluvii dioryx | ⭐ two changes, and the gloss builds on both: nominative fluvius for genitive fluvii, and Dorix for dioryx (Gk διῶρυξ, "channel"). Migne's exposition ends unde tertia lingua Graecorum Dorica dicitur — i.e. it has read the channel-word as the Doric dialect. The whole gloss is downstream of the divergence. |
| 0011 | 1211B | Et ecce timor Domini ipse est sapientia, et recedere a malo intelligentiam (Job 28:28) | Ecce timor Domini, ipsa est sapientia; et recedere a malo, intelligentia | intelligentiam is accusative where the construction needs a nominative predicate; the clause does not construe as printed. Latin case has no English exponent (Pattern 9), so the English reads "understanding" and the marker carries the difference. ipse agrees with timor rather than sapientia — grammatical either way, but it is not what the Vulgate prints. |
| 0011 | 1212A | Statim eam sequitur quasi bos ad victimam, et quasi agnus lasciviens, et ignorat quod ad victimam pertrahatur (Prov 7:22) | quasi bos ductus ad victimam … et ignorans quod ad vincula stultus trahatur | ⭐ the second half of the verse is a different sentence: Migne repeats ad victimam where the Vulgate has ad vincula stultus, so the printed proof-text has lost the fool and the bonds. Sense changes; marked. |
| 0011 | 1213A | Non laudes ante mortem quemquam (Sir 11:30) | Ante mortem ne laudes hominem quemquam | printed negation swapped (non for ne), hominem absent, order reversed. Marked because the brief names printed negations as the class to surface; the sense is unchanged. |
| 0013 | 1217C | lemma Si est tibi fidelis (Sir 33:31) | Si est tibi servus fidelis | ⭐ the noun the lemma is about is missing from the lemma, and the gloss immediately supplies it: Boni servi legem tradidit. Not truncation — fidelis follows. |
| 0013 | 1219A | lemma Extolle adversarium (Sir 36:9) | Tolle adversarium | ⭐ the strongest single finding in this batch. Tolle adversarium, et afflige inimicum is a prayer that the adversary be taken away; Migne prints Extolle, "exalt". The gloss (Significat per adventum Christi … pro statu Ecclesiae et fidelium salute) is compatible with either and flags nothing. |
| 0013 | 1219B | mulier timens Deum ipsa laudabitur (Prov 31:30) | mulier timens Dominum, ipsa laudabitur | divine name. Marked on the strength of the brief's timor Domini risk class and the peer batch's precedent at 1186D / 1187A / 1191B, where the same substitution recurs in this work. |
B.2 — divergences NOT marked in the text (logged only)
Pattern 14's gate is "differs … in a way that changes the sense". These do not clear it. They are recorded so the collation is complete and so a later sweep does not re-find them as discoveries.
| chunk | col | Migne prints | Vulgate | class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0010 | 1210A | Docete omnes gentes … docentes servare omnia (Mt 28:19–20) | docentes eos servare | pronoun dropped |
| 0010 | 1210C | Nemo novit Filium nisi Pater, nec Patrem quis novit (Mt 11:27) | neque | connective; both negative, both carried |
| 0010 | 1210D | Aqua sapientiae salutaris potavit illum (Sir 15:3) | potabit | perfect for future |
| 0010 | 1210D | Flumina de ventre ejus fluent aquae vivae (Jn 7:38) | agrees exactly | ⚠ no divergence — but the note reads [n: (Job. VII)] for John 7. Reference only; carried verbatim per the note rule and the standing "do not correct a reference" ruling. |
| 0010 | 1210D | fulgebunt sicut splendor firmamenti (Dan 12:3) | quasi | and autem absent from the opening. See §A.1 for the fused run in the same verse. |
| 0011 | 1211A | sicut et Christus Ecclesiam (Eph 5:25) | sicut et Christus dilexit Ecclesiam | verb of the second clause dropped; ordinary ellipsis in citation |
| 0011 | 1211A | Si duo consenserint ex vobis, fiet illis (Mt 18:19) | si duo ex vobis consenserint super terram, de omni re quamcumque petierint, fiet illis | word order (the rest is truncation) |
| 0011 | 1211B | Qui autem meditatur in lege Domini, dabit fructum in tempore suo (Ps 1:2–3) | conflates in lege ejus meditabitur (v.2) with quod fructum suum dabit in tempore suo (v.3) | loose quotation from two verses |
| 0011 | 1211B | Corde creditur (Rom 10:10) | Corde enim creditur | particle |
| 0011 | 1212C | Qui servat mandata mea, ille est qui diligit me, et diligetur a Patre meo (Jn 14:21) | Qui habet mandata mea, et servat ea: ille est qui diligit me. Qui autem diligit me, diligetur… | compression |
| 0011 | 1213C | Dimittite et dimittetur vobis (Lk 6:37) | Dimitte, et dimittemini | number and voice; sense identical |
| 0011 | 1213C | Noli esse nimium justus (Eccl 7:17) | Noli esse justus multum | order/word; all three negations (noli, neque, ne) present in both and carried |
| 0012 | 1214A | lemma Multis (Sir 29:10) | Multi | ⚠ one letter, and the gloss reads it as the nominative plural (Illos notat, qui neminem laedere volunt). Deliberately NOT marked — a [var:] asserts something about Migne's plate, and a single-letter difference is exactly what our own transcription could have produced. Plate check wanted. |
| 0012 | 1214B | lemma Qui perdiderit (Sir 29:23) | cum perdiderit | ⚠ same reservation, compounded by the verse-order anomaly at §C.1. Not marked. |
| 0012 | 1215B | Viri sanguinum non dimidiabunt dies suos (Ps 54:24) | Viri sanguinum et dolosi non dimidiabunt | phrase dropped mid-verse; negation present and carried |
| 0012 | 1215D | lemma Et vome (Sir 31:25) | evome | word division. Not carried under Pattern 10: Et and vome are both real words and the run construes, so nothing is quarantined. |
| 0012 | 1216B | Qui major est vestrum (Lk 22:26) | qui major est in vobis | genitive for prepositional phrase |
| 0012 | 1216C | lemma Hora surgenti (Sir 32:15) | Et hora surgendi non te trices | dative participle for gerund |
| 0013 | 1217D | ut possimus consolari eos (2 Cor 1:4) | ut possimus et ipsi consolari eos | phrase dropped |
| 0013 | 1218B | lemma Propitiationum (Sir 35:3) | propitiationem | ⚠ single-letter class again; not marked |
| 0013 | 1219C | Invenit sibi passer domum, et turtur nidum, ubi reponat pullos suos (Ps 83:4) | Etenim passer invenit sibi domum, et turtur nidum sibi, ubi ponat pullos suos | order and compound verb |
B.3 — lemmas checked and found to AGREE (so the list above is a list, not a sample)
Every remaining lemma in cols 1208C–1219C agrees with the Clementine text within the words it prints: Sir 24:2–3, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19 (Quasi oliva, Quasi platanus), 20, 21 (all six spice lemmas incl. Balsamum non mistum, whose closing quotation Et quasi balsamum non mistum odor meus matches word for word), 22, 29, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41 (Quasi trames), 46, 47 · 25:2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 13, 16, 17, 18, 22, 26, 30 · 26:1, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 16, 18, 23, 25, 28 · 27:1, 5, 7, 8, 13, 15, 17, 22, 24, 30 · 28:8, 13, 19, 21, 23, 28 · 29:5, 12, 13, 16–18, 20, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 35 · 30:1, 8, 14, 15, 18, 21, 23, 26 · 31:1, 12, 13, 19, 22 (both), 24, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32 (both) · 32:1, 7, 14, 22, 24 · 33:5, 6, 7, 8, 10 (both), 13, 15, 18, 19, 25 · 34:2, 8, 9, 10–11, 12, 23, 26, 28, 30 · 35:1, 4, 10 (both), 13, 14, 21 · 36:1, 7, 16, 17, 19, 20, 24 (both), 25, 26, 28. Inline citations that agree exactly: Prov 10:4, Prov 6:12–13, Prov 15:7, Gen 3:5, Ps 33:9, Ps 44:3, Ps 7:11, Mt 5:19, Lk 22:31, 1 Cor 13:13, 2 Cor 9:6. Every printed negation in every lemma of this range is present in the English, including Sir 25:22 Non est caput, 24:38 Non investigabit, 29:13 Et non abscondas, 35:10 Et non minuas, 35:14 Noli offerre, 36:25 Non est vir, 36:28 Qui non habet nidum.
§A · Carried type and non-construing readings (Patterns 7, 10, 12)
### A.1 — 1210D · erudiunmultos — the only [sic:] in the batch Printed (Dan 12:3, inside the italic lemma): et qui ad justitiam erudiunmultos, quasi stellae in perpetuas aeternitates. A fused run (Pattern 10, the direction no grep finds). The Vulgate has erudiunt multos. Carried as [sic: erudiunmultos] — no second italic marker, per Pattern 10, because it sits inside an already-italic scripture lemma. ⚠ 7a⁗ applied: the fused run is the clause's only verb and its object. Deleting the marker would leave "and they who … unto justice", a relative clause with no predicate. The English therefore states the sense in plain words beside the marker — and they that instruct many [sic: erudiunmultos] unto justice — satisfying both Pattern 12 (the marker must not swallow what it marks) and 8976 §M's ruling (render for the evident sense).
### A.2 — 1209A · Platanus ab altitudine dicta Printed: Platanus ab altitudine dicta, vel quia patula et ampla. Nam πλατός Graeci amplum vocant. Rendered literally, "so called from its height". ⚠ The sentence contradicts itself as printed and that is exactly what is being shown: the alternative etymology and the Greek gloss both require breadth, not height (Isidore, Etym. 17.7.40, a latitudine foliorum). Conjecture latitudine, near-certain. Not emended, not marked — both altitudine and latitudine are real words, so there is nothing to carry under Pattern 12, and a [var:] would be wrong because this is Migne's own prose, not a scripture citation.
### A.3 — 1209A · ad, coelestia se sustollit A comma between preposition and object. Preserved (Pattern 8: punctuation follows the plate). The English reads "raises itself up to, heavenly things". Not a defect of ours.
### A.4 — 1215B · Sicut spado. Non facit ad complexum virginis, sic adoratio idoli… Will not construe: an unannounced third-person subject, then sic with no sicut. Rendered as closely as the printed words allow ("He does not serve for the embrace of a virgin, so is the adoration of an idol, unfitting and unprofitable to those who adore"). ⚠ The printed negation is carried; the smooth reading ("As an eunuch is unfit for the embrace of a virgin, so is the adoration of an idol") would require reading Non facit as concessive and is not what is printed. Not emended.
### A.5 — 1213A · loquela ad mala dicendum prona Gerund/gerundive mismatch (ad mala dicendum for ad mala dicenda). Rendered "prone to the saying of evil things". Real words; nothing carried. Latin case has no English exponent.
### A.6 — 1213D · Pejor est interitus animae quam occidunt haeretici, quam quilibet cruciatus corporis. Two quam clauses, the first relative (quam = the soul) and the second comparative, inside one sentence. Rendered literally ("Worse is the destruction of the soul, which heretics slay, than any torment whatever of the body"). Reads as a zeugma; not emended.
### A.7 — 1212D · Sicut in medio. — an orphan Printed: VERS. 1.-- Propter inopiam, etc., [n: (RAB.)] Sicut in medio. Hic comparatione, etc., usque ad… — Sicut in medio. stands between the note and the Hic comparatione formula and governs nothing. ⚠ Candidate second lemma whose closing words were lost, or a left-margin clip. Rendered as printed ("As in the midst."), not marked. Plate check wanted.
### A.8 — 1218A · aedificium virtutum praeparere praeparere for praeparare. Rendered normally as "prepare", not carried and not marked: a/e vowel confusion is ordinary medieval orthography (Pattern 9 — "attested medieval spellings are correct Latin"), and carrying it would bury the real defects in noise. Logged so that a sweep does not churn it.
### A.9 — 1216C · bonis [operibus] omnibus replevit The square brackets are in the source, not ours. Following the peer batch's ruling at 1184D, the bracket is preserved and its contents translated: "filled us with all good [works]". Not marked [sic:] — the type is legible and the bracket reads as editorial.
### A.10 — 1217B · quia non aliter potest habere pacem et quietem Singular potest after plural admonet … ut … non omittant. Rendered literally ("because not otherwise can he have peace and quiet"). Number mismatch; no emendation made.
### A.11 — 1216C · the chunk ends without a full stop …per sanctos praedicatores divinis arguetur sententiis — no closing period on the plate. Preserved (Pattern 8). This is a chunk boundary of ours; the sentence continues into 0014, which is another agent's file. Flagged for the merge, not a defect.
§C · Migne's verse numbering — observed, not corrected
### C.1 — 1214A–B · CAPUT XXIX runs 16, 17, 18 → 23 → 20 → 27 VERS. 23 (Qui perdiderit) is printed before VERS. 20 (Gratiam fidejussoris). Reproduced in the printed order. This is the printed sequence and anaphora resolves against it; no reordering, no correction.
### C.2 — lemma-to-verse offsets, all reproduced as printed 1209C VERS. 21 · Balsamum and Quasi myrrha are Vulg 24:20 · 1215B VERS. 1 · Lignum offensionis is Vulg 31:7 · 1216C VERS. 15 · Hora surgenti is Vulg 32:15 (agrees) · 1219A VERS. 15 · Extolle adversarium is Vulg 36:9. Migne's numbering of Ecclus. runs ahead of and behind the Clementine division at several points in this range. Not reported as divergence; the lemma text is what was collated.
### C.3 — 1215C · the anchor is printed [01215C], with a leading zero Every other anchor in cols 1208C–1219C is four digits. Reproduced verbatim in the English, as the marker rule requires. ⚠ Almost certainly a digitization artifact rather than Migne's type — it is a column guide, not text — so it is not marked [sic:]. Flagged for whoever owns the anchor normalizer.
§D · Checked non-defects — do not spend a plate read on these
- Column bands. 1208C→1211A, 1211B→1213D, 1214A→1216C, 1216D→1219C: every band letter runs A→D in order with no text broken mid-word or mid-construction across any anchor. Nothing to report (known false positive 1).
[n: (ID.)]chains. Long runs of (ID.) after a (RAB.) resolve against the printed sequence. Not touched (known false positive 2).[n: (Job. VII)]for John 7:38 and[n: (Matth. XXVII)]for Matt 28:19–20: references, carried verbatim, no correction proposed.[n: (Prov. VII)],[n: (Psal. LIV)],[n: (II Cor. XII)]— same class.- Greek. Eight words, all reproduced in Greek script with accents intact and none transliterated: φοινίκον · ἐλαἴον · ἐλαία · πλατός · ἄκανθον · στακτήμ · ὀνύξ · θοῦς. ⚠ Four of them are irregular as printed (ἐλαἴον for ἔλαιον; πλατός for πλάτος; στακτήμ for στακτή; θοῦς for θύος/λίβανος), and none is marked — Greek accentuation and ending are Migne's, we have no Greek apparatus for this work, and marking them would be four public claims about a plate nobody has read. Recorded here so the class is visible.
- Pattern 4
[f:]— not tagged. This work quotes a lemma and expounds it; it is not a florilegium (known false positive 4).
Cols 1219D–1232A: CAPUT XXXVII–LI (the close of the work). Translated as one batch; chunks 0000–0013 were rendered in parallel by other agents and terminology is to be reconciled at merge.
Load-bearing vocabulary choices (for the merge)
| Latin | English used here |
|---|---|
usque ad (excerpt-elision formula) | as far as (matches shipped 8985 Glossa practice) |
VERS. N.-- | kept verbatim, lemma translated inside the italics |
CAPUT N. | CHAPTER N. (Roman numeral kept; XXXIX has no stop in the plate and none here) |
juxta historiam / ad litteram | "according to the history" / "to the letter" |
mystice | "mystically" |
doctor | "teacher" (never "doctor") |
praedicator / rector | "preacher" / "ruler" |
conversatio | "conversation" (in its older sense: manner of life) |
sacramentum / mysterium | "sacrament" / "mystery" |
impius / iniquus / injustus | "ungodly" / "unjust" / "unjust" |
disciplina / documentum | "discipline" / "lesson" |
electi / subjecti | "the elect" / "those subject to him" |
virtus | "virtue" of a moral quality, "power/strength" of God |
| second person | Pattern 17: tu → thou/thee/thy; vos → you |
⛔ Vulgate collation — divergences found (Clementine text, sources/vulgate/)
Every VERS. N lemma in cols 1219D–1232A was collated word-by-word against the Clementine Sirach; the inline proof-texts were collated against their own books. Truncated incipits are not listed. Seven divergences were judged material enough to carry a [var: …]; the rest are recorded here only.
Marked [var: …] in the English
- 1220A · Ecclus. 37:14 — Migne Non attendite (2nd pl. imperative); Vulg. Non attendas his in omni consilio (2nd sg.). Number of the address is load-bearing under Pattern 17, so the divergence has an English exponent ("attend ye not" vs "attend thou not"). Marked.
- 1222B · Ecclus. 39:41 — Migne Et nunc in omni tempore suo; Vulg. 39:41 Et nunc in omni corde et ore collaudate, et benedicite nomen Domini. Migne's lemma has taken up in tempore suo from vv. 39–40, and the gloss rests on the divergent word: it expounds tempus ("Say not that former times were better… Virtues make the days good"). A conformed lemma would have destroyed the gloss. Marked.
- 1223A · Ecclus. 40:32 — Migne conculcabitur inopia ("want shall be trodden down"); Vulg. condulcabitur inopia ("want shall be sweetened"). One letter, opposite sense. Marked.
- 1223C · Ecclus. 41:19 — Migne Verumtamen revertimini ("return ye"); Vulg. Verumtamen reveremini ("revere ye"). The gloss rests on Migne's reading: suadet ut revertantur ad studium docendi — he expounds it as a returning. Marked.
- 1223D · Ecclus. 41:20 — Migne omnem irreverentiam observare; Vulg. omnem reverentiam observare. Sense-reversing, and the neighbour of no. 4 — the two sit in the same short passage, which is worth a plate check as a pair. Marked.
- 1229C · Ecclus. 50:5 — Migne ingressum domus atrii; Vulg. ingressum domus et atrii. The dropped et fuses two things the gloss keeps apart: in rudibus, quos signat atrium; et in perfectis, qui signantur per domum. Marked.
- 1229C · Ecclus. 50:13 — Migne de manu sacerdotis (sg.); Vulg. de manu sacerdotum (pl.). The gloss repeats and builds on the singular (Partes accipit de manu sacerdotis, qui … exigit a ministris). Marked.
Divergences recorded, NOT marked (immaterial to the sense or to the gloss)
- 1219D · 37:3 — the gloss quotes cooperiendo aridam malitiam against Vulg. cooperire aridam malitia. The gerund is the commentator bending the verse into his own clause (cum malus se bonum esse simulat cooperiendo…), i.e. adaptation, not a variant text. No marker.
- 1220A · 37:18 — Migne Anima sancti viri; Vulg. Anima viri sancti. Word order.
- 1220B · Job 14:5 — Migne numerus mensium apud te est; Vulg. numerus mensium ejus apud te est. One word absent, sense unchanged.
- 1221A · Gal. 4:19 — Migne donec formetur in vobis Christus; Vulg. donec formetur Christus in vobis. Word order only; English has no exponent for it.
- 1222C · 40:11 — Migne Et aquae omnes; Vulg. et omnes aquae. Word order.
- 1222D · 40:15 — Migne Nepotes impiorum non multi; Vulg. Nepotes impiorum non multiplicabunt ramos. ⚠ Ambiguous: either a real variant ("are not many") or the incipit broken inside multi|plicabunt. Both readings suit the gloss (progeniem impiorum cito deficere), so it is rendered as printed and left unmarked. A plate read would settle it — this is the one item in this batch where a marker was declined for want of the page.
- 1223C · Prov. 11:26 (quoted at 41:18) — Migne Qui abscondet frumentum; Vulg. Qui abscondit frumenta. Tense and number; sense unchanged.
- 1223D · 41:26 — Migne Non avertas faciem tuam a proximo tuo; Vulg. Ne avertas faciem a proximo tuo. Both negations present, different particle, plus an added possessive. Not a polarity finding.
- 1224A · Prov. 11:1 (quoted at 42:4) — Migne abominatio est apud Deum; Vulg. apud Dominum.
- 1226C · 44:21 — Migne In carne ejus facit stare testamentum; Vulg. In carne ejus stare fecit testamentum. Present for perfect, plus order.
- 1227A · 1 Petr. 4:11 (quoted at 45:14) — Migne's italic quotation runs per Jesum Christum, qui est caput nostrum; the clause after Christum is not in 1 Peter. Judged the commentator's own apposition swept into the italics rather than a variant text, so unmarked. Flagged here because that judgment is contestable.
- 1228B · IV Reg. 2:9 (quoted at 48:13) — Migne Fiat spiritus tuus duplex in me; Vulg. Obsecro ut fiat in me duplex spiritus tuus. Order and compression.
- 1230D · 51:9 — Migne appropinquans erat inferno; Vulg. appropinquans erat in inferno deorsum. Bare ablative for in + abl.; sense unchanged.
Proper-name forms in the Praise of the Fathers — checked, all ATTESTED (Pattern 9)
Cols 1226B–1229B carry the dense name sequence. Each was checked against the Clementine and against ordinary medieval usage; none is a defect and none is marked: Henoch (Clem. Enoch at 44:16, but Henoch at 49:16 — Migne is internally consistent with the second), Noe, Phinees filius Eleazari, Jesus Nave, Josue, Roboam, Jeroboam, Ezechias, Josias, Joram, Achaz, Ezechiel, Nehemias, Josedec, Sichem/Neapolis, Seth, Sem, Onias. The -as/-ias Latin nominatives and the coelum spelling throughout are Migne's house orthography, not variants. ⚠ One name IS worth a note but is not a Vulgate matter: 1228B, 48:1, the gloss says the two captains of fifty were sent ab Ozia rege; IV Reg. 1 names Ochozias. Rendered as printed ("king Ozias"); Ozias is an attested short form of the same name in medieval usage, so no marker.
Carried type — every [sic: …] in these four chunks
Each entry gives column, the run carried, and the conjecture. Per 7a⁗ the English supplies in plain words whatever force the quarantined run carried.
- 1219D–1220A (0014, 37:5) — Possuntt for Possunt. Doubled t; a non-word, so carried. It was the clause's only finite verb, so the English says "can be understood" beside the marker.
- 1220D (0014, 38:21) — Ad monitio for Admonitio. Pattern 10 split type; the whole run is carried, including the fragment Ad which is a real word. English supplies "An admonition" beside it.
- 1221C (0014, 39:20) — Domini for Domino in Ps. 32:2, Confitemini Domini in cithara. A real word form, but the genitive has no slot after confitemini, so it fails Pattern 12's "does it render in place?" test and is carried; the English supplies "to the Lord". This is simultaneously a divergence from the Vulgate (Domino): it is marked once, as type, because a one-letter case ending is far likelier to be the compositor than a variant text. Worth a plate check. No second italic marker is used since the run sits inside an italic lemma.
- 1222A (0014, 39:35) — cum for eum in bestiae quoque contra cum saeviunt. Real word, no slot after contra; carried, with "against him" supplied beside it.
- 1226B (0016, 44:1) — nunde for nunc de. Pattern 10 fused run. It swallowed a preposition, so the English supplies "now concerning" beside the marker.
- 1226C (0016, 44:22) — jurejarando for jurejurando, inside the italic lemma (hence no nested asterisks in the marker content). English supplies "by an oath".
- 1230C (0017, 51:1) — JesusChristus. Pattern 10 fused run; it was the clause's subject, so the English supplies "Jesus Christ" beside it.
Other cruces — rendered as printed, no marker
- 1220C (0014, 38:5) — Migne prints no stop between …ligni medicina indulcari aquas and Mystice autem aqua amara…. Under Pattern 8 nothing is supplied: the English runs "…are made sweet by the medicine of the wood But mystically the bitter water…". This reads as our error and is not; it is the plate.
- 1222D–1223A (0015, 40:22) — the gloss ends bonorum operum virore excellit with no terminal stop. Reproduced without one.
- 1223B (0015, 41:10) — the gloss ends damnabitur pro eis with no terminal stop. Reproduced without one.
- 1221B (0014, 38:28) — Cum praesentis vitae volubilem conversationem … ostendit immutabilem: he shows the rolling conversation of this life to be unchangeable. The oxymoron is the plate's and is rendered, not smoothed.
- 1222A (0014, 39:38) — non causam, sed modum divino consilio manifestum dimisit will not construe cleanly (what agrees with manifestum, and what dimisit governs, are both open). Rendered as literally as the words allow: "he left not the cause, but the manner, manifest to the divine counsel." No conjecture offered.
- 1225B (0016, 43:1) — the Rabanus excerpt begins mid-sentence with a lower-case pulchritudo firmamenti. The English keeps the lower case; capitalizing would hide that the excerpt is truncated at its head.
- 1225D (0016, 43:16) — increpando, scilicet duritiam pravi cordis lapident vitale gramen: two accusatives on one verb and no room for vitale gramen. Rendered literally ("by rebuking they stone the hardness of a depraved heart, the living grass"). Conjecture, offered here and NOT in the text: lapideam ("the stony hardness"), with a verb governing vitale gramen lost. Migne prints no foot-of-page note here, so there is no witness to settle it.
- 1223C (0015, 41:19) — bonum nomen et bonam et vitam utilem esse praedixit has no predicate for esse. The English supplies the bracketed word "[good]" per the corpus's supplied-word convention and logs it here.
- 1228B (0017, 48:13) — Qui oravit die was examined and is NOT a defect: Eliseus did ask for the double spirit on the day Elias was taken up (IV Reg. 2:9), so "who prayed on the day" construes and is true. No conjecture (dicens) proposed.
- 1227A (0016) — the column band runs 1226D → 1227B with no 1227A anchor. Per the standing ruling this is normal positional transcription, not a gap: no text is broken across the anchor. Recorded only so a later reader does not re-raise it.
- 1231A → 1232A (0017) — likewise: the last anchor of the work jumps a band, and usque [1232A] ad splits the elision formula across it. Both as printed.
Plate
No plate read is available for cols 1219–1232 (the 2026-08-29 spot check covered 1183–1186 only) and Migne prints no conjecture apparatus on the pages that were read. Every [var: …] and [sic: …] above therefore stands on the Corpus Corporum text alone and carries its column here so it can be checked against the leaf before shipping. The left-margin clipping confirmed on p. 598 was not observed in these chunks: no column start in 1219D–1232A shows lost word-openings.
Completeness
Chunk 0017 ends the work at CAPUT LI, VERS. 37, col. 1232A (Laetetur anima), which is the last verse Migne glosses. Nothing is truncated.
⭐ BLIND POLARITY READ — 2026-08-29 · 18 chunks · 4 readers · 5 defects OF OUR OWN, fixed
Four readers, one per stint, each fenced from this file, from cruces-.md, data/tei-patches/8947.json and data/plate-reads.json. That fencing is why the pass worked: three of reader 1's five findings turn out to be already logged in §A below (a dilecto 1196B, potes 1189C, Cui Deum* 1188A) — independent rediscovery, which is the evidence the reader actually read — while the two that were new are both defects of OURS, the class a translator's own cruces cannot catch because the same agent wrote both.
OUR defects — found and FIXED (5)
| col | was | now | why |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1186D | "he who truly fears bears his mercy patiently" | "…patiently awaits his mercy" | sustinet = awaits. The old rendering made God's mercy a thing to be endured, fighting the lemma it glosses one clause earlier (qui sperant super misericordia ejus). |
| 1192A–B | "; and he who is weighed down … should wish to be made a judge" | "; and lest he who is weighed down … wish to be made a judge" | velit is a second subjunctive still governed by ne. The scope failed to cross the semicolon, so the gloss appeared to advise the man crushed by his own faults to seek judicial office — the exact reverse of its thesis. A dropped-negation effect produced by scope, not omission: invisible to any particle count. |
| 1199C | "No one can, etc." | "No one can [comprehend] the foreknowledge of God, etc." | praescientiam Dei was simply absent from the English. Our loss, not Migne's. |
| 1205C | "testimonies of Scripture, foreign to their depraved sense" | "…estranged by a depraved understanding" | As it stood the heretic gathered texts foreign to a depraved sense in order to confirm his error — the opposite of the point. a pravo sensu is ablative of means. |
| 1215D | "Sleep is lighter on a small fare" | "Sleep is finer on a small fare" | subtilior = finer, less gross. "Lighter" reads in modern English as shallower, i.e. worse — against the lemma (Somnus sanitatis) and the mystical gloss. Register, but it inverted the sense for an English reader. |
⛔ ONE FINDING REJECTED ON THE RULE — 1207A, and do not re-raise it
Reader 2 held that the English supplies a negation the Latin does not print: plate reads Amico reconciliatione credas in aeternum, English reads "trust thou not for ever."
Rejected. translation-style.md 7a⁗ rule 2 governs and requires exactly what is there: "Does the clause still carry its negation? If the marked run contained non/nec/ne … the English must be negative. The marker is not a place to park a negative and let the sentence go affirmative." 7a⁗-b then names word division as the dangerous shape, because quarantining a fused run removes a whole lexeme rather than one letter. reconciliatione swallowed the ne of reconciliato ne; the marker isolates the defective TYPE, never the FORCE it carries. The reader was right about what it SAW — no separate ne token — and wrong about which convention licenses it.
Migne's defects newly logged (English faithful — do NOT fix)
- 1219C —
Ipse est infinitatis ejus columna, et laboris requies.The pair wants infirmitatis: a pillar props up weakness, and the lemma is adjutorium. ⭐ The blind reader correctly declined to say whether this was Migne's or our transcription. Settled at the plate the same day: p.615 printsnfinitatis(initial i lost to the margin clip) — soinfinitatisis MIGNE'S. No patch; crux only. - 1219D–1220A —
zelus qui praecipue est animarumin a clause built entirely on the feminine (a parte feminea, muliebrem et mutabilem animum). The similiter wantsfeminarum. Migne's; carried faithfully. - 1221B —
volubilem conversationem … ostendit immutabilem. The present life's converse is at once rolling and shown unchangeable. Migne's paradox, reproduced rather than smoothed. - 1230B —
Ruina duplex, gentilitas scilicet …announces a twofold ruin and names one member. A dropped CLAUSE, not a dropped particle. The English reproduces the truncation and supplies nothing, which is correct. - 1203D — the Luke 12:47 collapse, now explained. Migne has folded 12:48's apodosis onto 12:47's protasis, which is why
exiguo enim conceditur misericordiasits orphaned. The same work prints both limbs correctly at 1206D, and both plates were read — the self-contradiction is Migne's and it is confirmed.
Yield by genre — the prediction held
CAP. XXXVII–XXXVIII (dense moral commentary) produced both of stint 4's reversals; the Praise of the Fathers, CAP. XLIV–L, produced none — list-like narrative has no neighbour to contradict. Chunks returned CLEAN and named as such: 0000, 0005, 0011, 0012, 0015, 0016. Roughly sixty candidates were considered and rejected with reasons, itemised in the readers' reports; the densest negation sites in the work (1217A four negations, 1218A's bag-with-holes paragraph with four sed non turns) were read hardest and are intact.
node scripts/polarity-record.mjs 8947 --chunks 18 --sites 5 --ours 5 recorded.