The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

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The destination of the birds appears to read Enyée; the proper name remains uncertain and has not been replaced by a familiar classical place-name.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