The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

H001-S273 119r

The source’s long transition maintenant parce que … il ne considère pas has no secure grammatical connection to the preceding question and changes pronouns. The English keeps the negative il ne considère pas rather than correcting it to an affirmative or inventing a new rhetorical question.

H001-S274 119v

The source opening repeats de after the preceding page’s centre de la; both pages retain the duplicate rather than deleting it. English continues the phrase once. The French agreement toutes leur Ciel is retained.

H001-S275 120r

Cris is a provisional reading: the short word after ses is irregularly formed, but the initial c and final s are visible. A source detail is reproduced in the facsimile appendix. The French conditional s’il nous est permis … que non seulement lacks a regular governing conclusion; English punctuates the ensuing assertion without adding content.

H001-S276 120v

The source’s masculine tous les planètes and singular qui restera with a compound subject are retained in French. The unfinished de l’envoi continues with qu’elles font on the next page.

H001-S277 121r

Uncertain adjective vitines [?], possibly intended as vitrines or another optical term; A source detail is reproduced in the facsimile appendix. The source’s pronouns and construction of l’envoi qu’elles font are retained without replacing esprits visibles with another optical noun.

H001-S278 121v

Imp[ur] is completed from the visible beginning imp at the bound edge, supported by the preceding pur de l’impur and the following corruptible; the supplied letters are marked in French. The source’s ramassé et ensemble lacks a second regular verb; English renders the combined gathering without adding a distinct action.

H001-S279 122r

The reading couvrir is supported by the original crop the corresponding source detail; its sense remains unusual here. The author juxtaposes Christ’s birth, resurrection, and advent with natural nativity, death, and radiance, then with the sinner’s metaphysical death, life, and resurrection.

H001-S280 122v

The source reads mais afin qu’elle ne s’y trouve plus, et qu’elle périsse, or elle est présente et unie hypostatiquement. English retains its apparent contradiction. The final word is continued by the next page’s discussion; this is not a supplied conclusion.

H001-S281 123r

The source’s humanity-phrase is l’humanité divine and is retained as ‘divine humanity’. The incomplete laisse-t-il voir has no explicit reflexive object; English supplies ‘himself’ from the preceding subject. No new nature or subject is introduced.

H001-S282 123v

The abbreviation J. C. is expanded to Jesus Christ in English. The source’s singular paraîtra after L’exemple et la preuve is retained in French; English gives normal agreement without omitting either noun.

H001-S283 124r

The phrase de sa résurrection initially refers to the physical stone, followed by celle de J. C.; English makes the two referents explicit. The Ovid passage is translated from this French witness, not substituted from another edition.

H001-S284 124v

The first letter of veut is irregular but the phrase is provisionally read veut être fait. French retains its singular masculine agreement after résurrection et glorification. Une grosse armée is legible in the original crop the corresponding source detail; English punctuates it as accompaniment rather than making the army emerge from the mouth.

H001-S285 125r

Provisional readings parot [?] and simil [?]; source A source detail is reproduced in the facsimile appendix. The source has que aussitôt, retained in French. No missing noun or negative is supplied in the opening continuation.

H001-S286 125v

The source’s se revêtit, a past tense within a present exposition, is retained in French; English uses the surrounding present to express the described process. Radically renders radicalement, denoting the stated depth of mixture.

H001-S287 126r

The source’s list le soleil la lune le Roi, la Vierge has uneven punctuation and no coordinating conjunction. English punctuates the four names as the represented sulfur’s figures rather than silently removing one. The spelling vainq is retained in French.

H001-S288 126v

The original confirms combustible, incorruptible et impur; A source detail is reproduced in the facsimile appendix. The second paragraph’s opening De sorte lacks que and its ending par le Dragon lacks a regular predicate; English preserves the tentative attribution comme le prétendent quelques-uns and the incomplete final relation.

H001-S289 127r

The source’s le bois de vie s’y pullule is irregular; English renders the tree of life’s proliferation without adding a separate agent. The final comparison continues on the next page.

H001-S290 127v

The mid-page heading follows the opening continuation paragraph. The source reads et de la nature in its heading; English gives the compound subject in ordinary syntax. The grammatical although-construction remains incomplete across the page boundary.

H001-S291 128r

The source changes constructions after quoique several times; English punctuates the sequence while retaining the repeated concessions. The indefinite quantity un ou deux is not replaced by the canonical count.

H001-S292 128v

Enlarged original confirms nous ne nous ferons point de déshonneur, rendered ‘do ourselves no dishonor’; A source detail is reproduced in the facsimile appendix. The author’s ne dirons rien de nous-mêmes is retained as a claim about the exposition’s source.