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Register of Readings

H001-S196 83v

inconnu: the beginning incon- is visible; final letters disappear into the gutter. The contextual reading remains qualified.

H001-S198 84v

entonnent is the visible reading before et expriment; its vocal sense is rendered ‘proclaim.’ The noun appears to be ruelle, independently checked from an enlarged crop, but remains qualified. Contextual conjecture moelle is not adopted.

H001-S199 85r

volitive is the visible adjective after aiguë; translated as ‘volitive,’ preserving its distinction from volatile used earlier.

H001-S210 89v

mucabals: qualified transcription of an unusual term; see enlarged crop the corresponding source detail. It is not normalized to a presumed technical name.

H001-S216 92v

The second quotation includes a parenthesized repeated que in French; English omits the duplicated conjunction.

H001-S218 93v

The phrase 'dans le trait de la mort que les hommes présentaient' is retained despite its unusual construction. The manuscript has an intentional ruled blank after 'ou', represented by a dash, not an illegible word.

H001-S219 94r

Décerné is the source's verb and is retained in French; English gives 'decreed'.

H001-S220 94v

The phrase 'renverser son arbitre' is provisional; the final noun's letters are difficult and may support another reading. See the original photograph for scan 220. English 'overturn its judgment' follows this tentative reading.

H001-S221 95r

The title-word reads Monas; capitalization and punctuation of the ensuing descriptive words are editorially restrained rather than treated as evidence for a securely identified published title.

H001-S225 96r

The name appears as Saint Pierre; it is retained even though the ensuing imagery parallels Revelation. The opening construction is incomplete and syntactically awkward across scans 222 and 225; its wording is preserved rather than supplying a missing negation or adjective.

H001-S226 96v

The final adjective unie is visibly retraced; see the original photograph for scan 226. The sentence continues on scan 227. The source says 'avènement ou la miséricorde'; the alternatives are retained without substituting a conjectured noun.

H001-S229 98r

The Greek sequence is provisionally transcribed ανδρος γηνος without added accents, and transliterated andros gēnos. The second word may represent a defective spelling of the intended word for woman. See the original photograph for scan 229.

H001-S230 98v

The Greek-looking word is provisionally transcribed υπομαχια and transliterated hypomachia; the expected term for mounted combat may differ. See the original photograph for scan 230. The accompanying facsimile preserves this uncertain sequence.

H001-S232 99v

The verb appears to read quitter; its awkward role in the objection is retained rather than replaced with a conjectured étudier. The construction 'une foi, qui fasse fermement établir' is irregular; English organizes the following verbs as the actions the author attributes to faith.

H001-S234 100v

The Greek sequence is provisionally transcribed αποτηςπεγης and transliterated apo tēs pēgēs. Its apparent intended phrase concerns a spring, but its individual letters are not securely written. See the original photograph for scan 234. The source explicitly distinguishes the horses from the mercurial spirits they represent.

H001-S236 101v

The underlined term is provisionally read acgor; the middle letters are difficult. See the original photograph for scan 236.

H001-S236b 101v

Amalcation is the manuscript's apparent spelling; English uses amalgamation, recording the intervention here.

H001-S237 102r

The adjective following nature appears doutente, an irregular form rendered 'doubtful'; it may admit a different reading. 'Séparer les natures des natures même' is retained, including its apparent repetition; see the original photograph for scan 237.

H001-S238 102v

The opening noun is provisionally read rois; its first letter is not entirely secure. See the original photograph for scan 238 and the preceding the original photograph for scan 237.

H001-S239 103r

The first period has loose and repeated relative clauses; English separates the account of accidental qualities from the account of metallic generation without omitting either.

H001-S240 103v

The word is provisionally read analipticité; see the original photograph for scan 240. Its meaning has not been replaced with a conjectural technical synonym. The final article la is parenthesized in the source; English incorporates it into the continuing construction.

H001-S241 104r

The second paragraph lacks a clear verb in the phrase beginning 'où aux seuls sages'; English makes its apparent relation explicit, while the French defect remains visible.

H001-S242 104v

The term is provisionally transcribed mécubales; see the original photograph for scan 242. It is retained as mecubales in English rather than silently replaced with Kabbalists. The sentence 'ne peuvent être rapportés à aucune chose, sans une mauvaise explication' appears to deny any referent without a bad explanation; its apparent missing qualification has not been supplied.

H001-S245 106r

The proper name is written Bugiris; it is retained rather than silently replaced with the familiar Busiris. See the original photograph for scan 245. The phrase 'première tache originelle' is verified in the original photograph for scan 245; English preserves the overlapping first/original qualifiers.

H001-S246 106v

The noun in 'car la couleur qui agit en elle' appears couleur rather than chaleur; its repeated relation to the following couleurs is retained.

H001-S249 107r

The source reads des semences … qui pullulent et qui germait, changing from plural present to singular imperfect. English gives the two verbs matching present forms; French retains the irregular sequence.

H001-S250 107v

The word after d’être is tués, confirmed on the enlarged original with the accent over é; no uncertainty remains on this word. The source’s long sentence changes construction at comme certains corps; English divides the argument into sentences without omitting its causal sequence.

H001-S251 108r

The French retains que au contraire and the singular se fît after the plural avantages. English regularizes these agreements without changing the contrast or the stated purpose.

H001-S253 109r

The source begins Leurs cornues et leur estomac … ne trouvera, with plural and singular subjects governing a singular verb. English allows the compound subject without supplying a further interpretation of cornues.

H001-S254 109v

The source’s ou les choses … recevraient has an uncertain relation to the preceding relative clause. English keeps the alternative ‘or’ and conditional verb rather than silently changing ou to où.

H001-S255 110r

The source’s family-word is written élémaire, an irregular or contracted form, rendered ‘elementary’ in English. No missing syllable is supplied in the French.

H001-S256 110v

The source changes singular and plural agreement in la pureté … l’homogénéité et l’incorruptibilité est plus grande. English regularizes agreement. Spermes and semences are distinguished here as ‘sperms’ and ‘seeds’ to preserve the paired terms.

H001-S257 111r

The French changes from feminine semence and qui to masculine il, then back to elles. English retains pronouns rather than deciding whether each refers to seed, spirit, or bodily parts. The phrase sans force is legible in the original and is retained literally.

H001-S258 111v

The source’s indefinite ils, whose antecedent is not supplied on this page, is retained as ‘they’. The wording où la fleur et le germe du métal est has irregular agreement, retained in French.

H001-S259 112r

The original clearly reads chancres, not chaux, in the two names paired with vipères; chaux occurs separately after sur la. English uses ‘calx’ for this residue. The source’s singular l’effacer is not silently changed to les effacer.

H001-S260 112v

The heading Lucrèce occurs after two prose paragraphs, immediately before the quotation. The source’s se change is singular after a threefold subject and is retained in French.

H001-S261 113r

Ovide is a mid-page heading after the continuation of the Lucretius quotation and before the fourfold account.

H001-S262 113v

The French preserves the source sequence le corps et l’ombre, ces manes et l’âme and the question beginning qui est-ce qui pour l’ombre même. English does not supply a conjunction to resolve the author’s enumeration.

H001-S263 114r

The unfinished selon que leur caractère est imprimé à cette continues with faculté de l’âme on the next page; English preserves the same page-boundary continuation.

H001-S264 114v

The phrase forme essentielle ou animale distinguishes terms the author offers as alternatives. Sa forme accidentelle ou individuelle likewise remains a paired description, not two separately enumerated forms.

H001-S265 115r

Uncertain adjective: calioneuses [?], possibly an irregular writing of caligineuses. A source detail is reproduced in the facsimile appendix. No standard French spelling is silently substituted. The source reads il attend quelque temps de sa digestion, retained as an awkward waiting construction.

H001-S266 115v

The appositional sequence ces ombres de formes ces épouvantails is retained in French and punctuated in English. Némésis is the manuscript’s proper name and is not replaced by a generalized term for vengeance.

H001-S267 116r

The source has the feminine est distinguée followed by masculine il, continuing the alternatives at the end of the previous page. English uses the singular spirit without reproducing French gender. The source repeats nourrir without deletion.

H001-S268 116v

Uncertain phrase: cher vésicule [?] éthéré. A source detail is reproduced in the facsimile appendix. The French shifts to elles after esprits and then returns to cet esprit; English keeps the distinction of soul and instrumental spirits without reproducing gender changes.

H001-S269 117r

The source’s unfinished car le baume … qui has no regular finite completion. English treats baume as an apposition to the surviving spirit, while the French retains the incomplete construction.

H001-S270 117v

The source’s soit la glorification … ou les moyens is retained as an alternative construction. The long conditional changes into an explanatory car clause without completing a regular main sentence; English leaves that continuation open.

H001-S271 118r

The original reads désirent de rejoindre, confirmed from the upright image. The source’s afin que celles de formes accidentelles … de ces esprits incorruptibles is grammatically and conceptually difficult, retained rather than reconstructed.

H001-S272 118v

Pénétrabilité is written with correction or overwriting but its final word is legible. The shifts between neuter reste, feminine elle, masculine il, and une chose are retained in French; English does not assign all the pronouns to fire alone.

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