The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

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.