The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

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.