Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum

The 1599 Errata: Collation

Khunrath’s errata leaf is printed in its place above, on the verso of the leaf whose recto is p. 187, German and English facing as elsewhere. What follows is the collation: each of his twenty entries against the line it cites, with the state of the Magdeburg copy and the disposition adopted. All twenty fall within the treatise as edited. None falls between p. 74 and p. 105, none between p. 117 and p. 128, none between p. 144 and p. 153, and none after p. 160, which is the last entry on the leaf.

Four of the twenty replace nothing and supply a word the page omits altogether — viel at p. 16, Catholisch at p. 53, etliche at p. 74, bey at p. 160 — and three more (69, 116, 129) reorder or delete rather than substitute. An entry of that kind quotes the line as it ought to read and does not say what is wrong with it, which is why several cannot be construed at all without the page in front of one. One, aliâs hoc at p. 12, resists the page as well, and is left unconstrued rather than forced.

The leaf as a piece of printing. Its column-head sets the Latin Pagina in Fraktur, beside a Liß that is Fraktur because it is German; the compositor follows the line and not the language there, and nowhere else on the leaf. The p. 69 entry ends Armeniacs with a long s, which cannot stand in final position and is a wrong letter for i. The page number 140 is the one in the column that carries no point after it. A capital A stands by itself on the p. 74 line, a little to the right of lin. 8. and well inside the measure: it is in the wrong place for a signature and the wrong place for a catchword, it belongs to no entry, and it is reproduced on the facing page and left unconstrued. And the ausserwehl- of the p. 129 entry ends in a Fraktur double-oblique hyphen so faintly inked that it can be taken for dirt; it is there. So the list of misprints has four defects of its own, which is a fair rate for a leaf set last and in a hurry.

One convention of this edition does not apply to the leaf. The fount draws no Antiqua/Fraktur distinction for arabic figures — the 1 and 6 of the page number 116 are the same sorts as the 1 and 6 of lin. 16. — so the figures in the left-hand column are set upright here for legibility and carry no claim about the fount, while the figures inside lin. and linea vltima follow the Antiqua of the words they belong to.

p. 8

Artis, für Arris, in margine. — The margin of p. 8 reads Arris huius secreta duo. Corrected to Artis; adopted.

p. 11

Vniuersal, für vniuersal, linea vltima. — The last line of p. 11 appears in this copy already to read Vniuersal. Either the sheet was corrected at press or the forms are not distinguishable at this size. No emendation made; the direction recorded.

p. 12

aliâs hoc, lin. 9. — Line 9 as printed reads Ja / nicht jrret; hoc, certè, esset error hon paruus. The intention of the entry is not clear. Separately, hon is a turned or mis-sorted n and is corrected to non; that correction is adopted, and the errata entry is left unconstrued rather than forced onto it.

p. 12

Ibidem, huius, für huis, lin. 22. — Line 22 reads artis huis secretum VNVM. Corrected to huius; adopted.

p. 14

vnfeilbare / für vnfeilhare / in marg. — The margin of p. 14 reads Vnfeilhare erkendtnus. Corrected to Vnfeilbare; adopted, and confirmed by the same word in the body of p. 8.