Register of Readings

This register collects qualified transcriptions and consequential decisions concerning source wording or page boundaries. The comparison identifiers point to the paired text; selected photographic details follow the translated treatise. Source spelling and an author’s attribution remain distinguishable from an editor’s interpretation.

H001-S015 1r

Original opening reads 'ne fait pas des plus vifs'; the irregular construction is preserved. Original-image enlargement confirms 'horreur' in 'qu'on se fait horreur d'entendre'.

H001-S017 2r

The syntactically unusual phrase 'dans la rue ou la main de quelqu'un' is visibly present; the English retains its two alternatives rather than inventing a missing expression.

H001-S019 3r

'Science fournaine' is retained as read; English renders the furnace-related adjective rather than replacing the phrase with modern experimental chemistry.

H001-S020 3v

The French construction 'puisse te soit accordée' is visibly irregular; English supplies the intended grammatical relationship without adding content.

H001-S024 5v

Final verb provisionally read 'détruis'; its initial letter is indistinct and can resemble r. The English follows the likely verb while recording the doubt. The noun after encensement reads 'inondation'; innodation would fit binding terminology but is not substituted into the transcription.

H001-S025 6r

The line-broken Greek divine-name designation has been joined and given the conventional accent as Τετραγράμματον. The manuscript's 'chassée dans cette créature' is retained despite its irregular preposition.

H001-S026 6v

The manuscript appears to read 'nos œuvres', not 'vos œuvres'. The unexpected first-person possessive is retained in both languages.

H001-S031b 8r

Raw-image enlargement confirms heading 'Exposition', 'agent' and 'préparation', correcting the provisional low-resolution audit. The adjective following 'soufre minéral ou' appears to be 'fameux'; a possible reading fumeux remains to be checked independently.

H001-S034 9v

The word after 'Par le' appears to read 'mage', perhaps an incomplete or malformed image; the English gives 'image' with an explicit uncertainty marker. The comparison appears to read 'le soleil étoilé'; this unusual phrase is preserved pending independent review.

H001-S035 10r

'Vif-argent semblant' is retained as the apparent wording; English likewise leaves the unusual qualification as 'seeming quicksilver'.

H001-S037 11r

The French sentence beginning 'parce que' has an incomplete parallel construction; the English supplies only the implied verb 'acts' so that its stated action remains intelligible.

H001-S046 14v

The source's abbreviated containment sequence reads 'le modèle contient l'intelligible, le raisonnable, le raisonnable le céleste'; English takes the first two as objects of contains, then supplies the repeated verb for the following clauses, without inserting an unrecorded realm.

H001-S050 15v

The word montagne is divided across scans 50–51; its division is retained to preserve the source-side boundary.

H001-S051 16r

Read ‘exaucée en toute de nature’ as written; the construction is uncertain. ‘Sel’ is read in both occurrences, not ‘jet’.

H001-S053 17r

The manuscript reads ‘Borus’; it has not been silently regularized to Boreas.

H001-S054 17v

The final singular ‘Il devient’ follows plural spirits in the source; the translation retains the shift rather than supplying a new subject.

H001-S059 20r

The name before Pégase is read Crisaes; this historical spelling has not been normalized to another mythological name.

H001-S062 21v

‘ce qui n’attribuera’ is retained in French; the English interprets it as a rhetorical question. The wording ‘abusent et ne se servent point’ is also retained.

H001-S064 22v

The original clearly reads convertit sa prééminence. No emendation to conserve is made.

H001-S065 23r

The name after élixir d’ is read Oralie, but the handwriting does not establish its identification. The duplicated qu’on across scans 64–65 is retained in French; English takes it once.

H001-S066 23v

Before fixer the source has a parenthesized abandoned ‘coa-’; this incomplete false start is omitted from the reading text and recorded here.

H001-S067 24r

Opening verb in the plowing paragraph is read ouvrir. The source moves from masculine ce soufre to feminine ouverte, referring back to terre.

H001-S072 25v

Read laton, not bâton, in the opening sentence. The name before the dragon passage is read Argénor. The author’s dragon de Lerne is preserved.

H001-S073 26r

The irregular et puis qu’à la tête is retained. The referent shifts in the sentence beginning puisqu’il se trouve; no missing noun is supplied.

H001-S074 26v

The source varies laiton and laton; both forms are retained. Final mineral-name read talc.

H001-S075 27r

Read vénénosité, ‘venomousness’. The syntactic gap after et par sa forme is retained in the French and translated elliptically.

H001-S076 27v

The river-name is read Achelous. The source repeats si ce across scans 76–77; the French retains the repetition, while the English takes it once.

H001-S077 28r

Phœbus normalizes the name’s written ligature. The source repeats the divided stem combat- as the full combattaient on scan 78; the duplicated opening si ce is retained from the preceding page.

H001-S078 28v

The initial combattaient repeats the divided stem combat- at the end of scan 77; the English renders the verb once. The name after par is provisionally read Tysiphone; the original shows a y-like descender and the ending phone, but the internal letter sequence is uncertain.

H001-S079 29r

The English combines ne parlons on scan 78 with pas on scan 79 as ‘speak no further’. The irregular connection dureté qui est ce qui is punctuated as a sentence boundary; the source’s vaisseau qui est la matière is not emended.

H001-S080 29v

Read chasse, written with a long s, rather than chape. The subject of Il est besoin is not supplied. The source’s transitions puisque non seulement and mais parce que are preserved in French and rendered as coordinated reasons in English.

H001-S083 30r

The opening construction ‘C’est après … il faut’ is retained in French rather than silently regularized. The heading reads ‘Spirituation des eaux’.

H001-S084 30v

The initial ‘une’ resumes the final ‘une’ of scan 83; the manuscript repeats the article across the page boundary. The phrase ‘arrosés de plusieurs sources et d’arbres odoriférants’ is retained as written; the English supplies the change of construction required by its two complements.

H001-S085 31r

The apparently repetitive ‘les minéraux imparfaits … les minéraux’ was checked in an enlarged image and is retained.

H001-S086 31v

The adjective ‘tingente’ was checked in an enlarged image.

H001-S087 32r

The nymph’s name is clearly written ‘matière’ in this manuscript. The final adjective ‘doux’ continues across the page boundary with ‘zéphire’.

H001-S088 32v

The repeated ‘le doux’ at the page boundary is retained in French and explained in the English note.

H001-S090 33v

An upright triangle follows ‘chaleur de’; transcription retains △. The manuscript reads ‘par inspiration’.

H001-S091 34r

The word ‘céleste’ is parenthesized and cancelled before ‘terrestre’; it is disclosed as [céleste, biffé]. The construction ‘il se météorise … tout ce que’ is retained rather than regularized in French.

H001-S092 34v

The source name is ‘Gallas’. Its change from ‘Mars … Vénus’ to ‘Soleil et … Vénus’ is retained. ‘Plantes’ and ‘végétaux’ are both present.

H001-S093 35r

‘Quenech’ is underlined. The final apostrophe reads ‘Ô humide verdeur, forme aqueuse … germe’ and continues on scan 94.

H001-S094 35v

The place-name after ‘fontaine de’ is provisionally [Lerne ?]; the capital may also be read C, giving Cerne. The qualified reading reflects an additional inspection of the original photograph. ‘Fort ombrageux’ is read in the following description of the oak.

H001-S097a 36r

This unit contains the running prose above the new heading on scan 97. ‘Vulcain’ and ‘Narcisse’ were checked in an enlarged detail.

H001-S097b 36r

The heading occurs after the running prose on scan 97; it begins a separate unit. The opening sentence continues on scan 98, where the English restores its predicate ‘is terrifying’ after the full subject.

H001-S098 36v

The manuscript repeats ‘du’ across scans 97–98; the English reads the preposition once. The phrase ‘son propre frère’ after Tisiphone was checked in an enlarged detail. The source’s claim about watering the earth is retained rather than conjecturally altered.

H001-S099 37r

The source joins Naaman’s Jordan immersions and the angel-stirred pool with ‘ou’; the translation preserves that conflation.

H001-S100 37v

‘Ophs’ was checked in an enlarged detail. The source says ‘flèche de Cadmus’, arrow of Cadmus, and this is retained.

H001-S102 38v

The singular ‘dissout et corrompt’ after plural ‘qui dépècent’ is retained in French. The phrase ‘enfants de morts’ is the visible reading; no conjectural replacement is made.

H001-S103 39r

The image reads ‘le milieu qui le flotte’ and ‘le voiturier des teintures et des âmes’. The somewhat awkward genealogy of the first Venus is retained rather than harmonized.

H001-S104 39v

The closing French ‘la vertu séminale ou bien d’une vertu céleste par’ is syntactically uneven. Its words are preserved; the sentence continues on scan 105. ‘Aphronitre’ was checked in an enlarged detail.

H001-S105 40r

‘Peu d’heures’ was checked in an enlarged detail. The source has singular and gender shifts in ‘le soufre ou la teinture … ne peut être séparée’ and ‘sans lequel’; the English avoids inventing a more precise antecedent. ‘Aucun argent’ is the visible reading.

H001-S106 40v

The name ‘Ziniar’ was checked in an enlarged image. ‘Le huitième Jour’ and ‘au huitième Ciel’ are both present. This page ends the section.

H001-S109a 41r

‘Martelés de taches’ is retained in French. The new heading below this descriptive paragraph begins the following unit.

H001-S110 41v

Enlarged original confirms saumâtre and rougeâtre; these replace earlier uncertain or mistaken readings. The following word is legible as amaigr… but its final letters remain uncertain at the bound edge; [wasted?] is a tentative interpretation. A source detail is reproduced in the facsimile appendix. De pierre et de pierres is retained.

H001-S111 42r

The Greek word is retained as ανθος with normalized Greek letter forms and no supplied accent. ‘Erycine’ is the visible surname. The manuscript itself underlines Erymanthe in its derivation.

H001-S112 42v

The source writes ‘Piton’; the familiar English name Python is used. ‘Rhode’, ‘Ophioglossa’, and ‘Colossicola’ are underlined. The feminine pronouns in the explanation of the bull refer back to eau/terre with compressed shifts; the English names the earth where required for clarity.

H001-S114 43v

The source has the construction ‘ce soufre, dévoré … tout ce qui se présente’ without a separate written finite verb for devouring; the English supplies ‘devours’ to express the evident clause while the French remains as written.