H001-S115 44r

The phrase ‘à force de regrets et de rugissements’ is retained. The sentence beginning with the lion’s fever runs continuously from scan 114.

H001-S116 44v

The source includes an actual footnote marked (1), whose French text and English translation are preserved in editorial note 1. The middle mountain-name Athos was confirmed in an enlarged detail. The sequence ‘un air un un feu’ is as written.

H001-S117 45r

The source reads ‘bouillon infernal’. Its phrase ‘par le Styx’ resumes a preceding ‘par’, which the English reads once. ‘Pour divertir l’esprit’ is retained in the Philostratus attribution.

H001-S118 45v

The opening reads ‘car mercure produit’, confirmed in an enlarged detail. The Greek word is transcribed παν with normalized letter forms and no supplied accent. The final sentence continues on scan 119.

H001-S119 46r

The nymph's name is transcribed Pithis as it appears; it may be a variant of Pitys, but the familiar spelling is not silently substituted.

H001-S120 46v

A faint pencilled 'Fin' appears after this paragraph; it is treated as a later annotation, not as part of the inked text.

H001-S121 47r

The repeated 'par' across scans120–121 is retained in the French transcription; English joins the phrase without duplicating the preposition.

H001-S122 47v

The destination of the birds appears to read Enyée; the proper name remains uncertain and has not been replaced by a familiar classical place-name.

H001-S123 48r

The mountain appears as Ménélas rather than a silently substituted canonical location for the hind's capture. The destination of the birds again appears as Enyée; uncertainty from the preceding page remains.

H001-S124 48v

The isolated parenthesis '(l'emblème)' is present after soit and retained; its syntactic relation is unclear.

H001-S125 49r

Japeth is retained as the manuscript's spelling rather than changed to Iapetus.

H001-S129b 51r

Tepher remains a tentative reading. A source detail is reproduced in the facsimile appendix. The subsequent terms read Ignée, Éthérée, terrestre, aquatique and are translated as qualities.

H001-S130 51v

The opening appears to read 'au sixième sens'; this unusual phrase is retained rather than changed to a conjectured 'même sens'.

H001-S132 52v

'Les bornes finis' is the source's irregular construction; English preserves its sense as finite bounds.

H001-S133 53r

The expression 'qu'ils ont appelés origine' is transcribed as it appears; origine may conceal a proper name or copying error, but no reconstruction is substituted. The source juxtaposes 'corporels' and 'comme sans corps'; the apparent tension is retained.

H001-S138 55v

The final verb after 'vous' lies in the binding gutter; its visible opening is vo-. It may be voyez, but the lost letters have not been silently supplied. See the original photograph for scan 138. The long first sentence has repeated 'retenue' and loose antecedents; those constructions are retained.

H001-S139 56r

The Greek-looking sequence following familles is provisionally read οἰκίας; several letter forms are uncertain. See the original photograph for scan 139. No accents are clearly supplied in the source. The wording 'l'ont puisé d'eux-mêmes' is retained despite its awkward relation to the following statement of dependence on the Egyptians.

H001-S140 56v

The compound impure is divided between scans 139 and 140; English places the complete word at the end of scan 139 to preserve the sentence.

H001-S141 57r

The phrase 'comme ceux' occurs twice in succession; the repetition is retained.

H001-S142 57v

The phrase is written 'toutes toutes d'inimitiés', with repetition and no clear sortes. English supplies 'kinds of' to express the enumerated list; the French irregularity is retained.

H001-S143 58r

The phrase appears to read 'l'air sublimé'; its unusual terminology is retained. The final syllable pré- continues préside- on scan 144.

H001-S144 58v

The word préside- is begun again as président after the page break; English carries the verb once across the boundary.

H001-S145 59r

The numeral identifying the angelic order is read 3e; it is retained rather than harmonized with another order.

H001-S146 59v

The proper name is provisionally transcribed Fourbas; see the original photograph for scan 146. No identification is imposed. The source appears to read 'il dévore une pilule amère'; the unusual action is retained. See the original photograph for scan 146. The source's 'un autre hercule' is retained, although the ensuing mother–mercury identification may invite another mythological reconstruction.

H001-S147 60r

The long opening period has a syntactically incomplete mais comme clause; English separates its assertions without changing their sequence.

H001-S148 60v

The dragon's place-name is provisionally read Lerne; see the original photograph for scan 148. The source combines this name with Cadmus's companions, and both details are retained. The proper name Prométhée is partly near the binding gutter; its visible opening and following -thée support the reading. See the original photograph for scan 148.

H001-S149 61r

The source shifts between plural esprits and singular il in its account of niter; the shift is preserved.

H001-S150 61v

The irregular constructions les représentent armé and et qu’ils semblent are retained. English transliterates the Greek word rather than converting its inflection into a different Greek form.

H001-S151 62r

The source’s singular ose follows Mars ou ses esprits sulphureux; the English keeps Mars as the subject rather than changing the source’s argument to a plural subject.

H001-S153 63r

Read l’or le plus doux in the source. The sentence dispersés de cet astre has a difficult attachment; English places ‘from this star’ after the objects over which the poison is said to flow.

H001-S154 63v

The Greek characters following dans begin Ερεβο; the remainder cannot be established confidently from the original. Tisiphone is clearer here than the provisional Tysiphone on scan 78. The grammatical irregularity qui ne doit after flèches is retained.

H001-S155 64r

The manuscript’s syntactic irregularities De même qu’elle and amollit avec ses flèches dissout are preserved in French. English inserts ‘and’ between softens and dissolves.

H001-S156 64v

Anthée is a provisional reading of the name. Four handwritten alchemical signs follow trois corps; their shapes are not securely represented by standardized Unicode glyphs. The heading occurs within this page, before the second paragraph.

H001-S157 65r

The difficult clause lorsqu’ils y sont dans leur perfection is retained without supplying a new antecedent. The English renders qu’elles renferment as a reference to the preceding humidités.

H001-S158 65v

No verb is supplied to replace the source’s difficult Si nous jetons … je dirai construction. The sequence maladies pestilentielles de grêle is punctuated as a list in English; French retains the written wording.

H001-S159 66r

The Greek word following toutes les is not confidently deciphered; no standard Greek term is substituted on conjecture.

H001-S160 66v

The source’s question beginning Puisque is syntactically incomplete and remains so in English. No additional main clause is supplied.

H001-S161 67r

The source places ne puisse pas in a question that argues for the possibility; English renders the intended positive capability. The locative term définitivement is retained as ‘definitively present’ rather than translated ‘forever’.

H001-S162 67v

The source’s singular essence governs both la plus fixe and la plus grossière; English retains both qualities. The clause dont il est … de les retirer is rendered as extraction from the preceding parts.

H001-S163 68r

The initial feminine prêtes has no regular agreement with the preceding masculine Ciel; no omitted feminine noun is supplied. English renders the phrase without gender marking.

H001-S164 68v

The source’s unfinished sequence et ces deux extrémités … par un certain accord is kept unfinished across the page boundary. No additional verb is supplied.

H001-S166 69v

The source alternates passibilité and passabilité; both are rendered passibility. The sentence begins Cela n’est pas digne d’une grande attention, despite the preceding emphasis on the subject’s marvels; no correction is made.

H001-S167 70r

Faisant si is the manuscript’s irregular opening to paragraph 3; English renders it ‘Considering whether’. The Greek is provisionally transcribed διαφτορα, with the source’s letter sequence retained rather than silently replacing it with a standard spelling.

H001-S168 70v

The irregular source wording de vertus rassemblé dans une is retained in French; English renders its sense as ‘powers gathered into one’.

H001-S170 71v

The word after d’ is written in a mixture of Greek and Latin-shaped letters, provisionally represented αληθεia. The final sentence is underlined in the manuscript and is completed by the comment on the next page.

H001-S171 72r

No missing counterpart is supplied after soit par. The source’s phrasing les verres … des métaux is retained.

H001-S173 73r

The source has telles qu’elles soient rather than a regular modern concession. The French is retained without grammatical repair.

H001-S174 73v

The Greek is partly legible as απο…ηρμ…; intervening and final characters are uncertain. A source detail is reproduced in the facsimile appendix. English brings séminales from the opening of the next page into the compound phrase ‘seminal forms’; the French remains in source order.

H001-S175 74r

The opening séminales completes formes on the preceding page; English has already joined the divided phrase there. Clarification continues to be rendered ‘radiance’ in the account of glorification.

H001-S176 74v

The source’s irregular construction enfin l’avènement … elles arrivent is rendered with ‘with the advent’. Des ténèbres de leurs ordures follows toutes les impuretés élémentaires in an uneven list; English retains darkness as a distinct listed term.

H001-S177 75r

The opening completes not only … but also from the preceding page. English adjusts the connective to continue the argument without supplying missing substantive content.

H001-S178 75v

Provisional reading soumis à la servir; the word servir could instead be another verb. A source detail is reproduced in the facsimile appendix. The irregular source phrase à la source du néant is retained literally. The English rearranges the interrupted conditional relative construction but preserves its incompleteness.

H001-S183 77r

The word ‘fournis’ is parenthesized and cancelled before ‘soumis’.

H001-S186 78v

The concluding French quotation is underlined in the manuscript.

H001-S192 81v

The nomenclature in paragraph 2 is transmitted in its irregular order; a term may be omitted before or after ‘et dans les animaux,’ but none has been supplied.