title: Pars 7, Cap. 3

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### Capitulum III. *De antecedentibus ad iudicium, cuiusmodi sunt suffragia ecclesiastica.*

De *suffragiis* autem *ecclesiasticis* hoc tenendum est, quod suffragia Ecclesiae prosunt mortuis, suffragia, dico, quae Ecclesia pro mortuis facit, sicut sunt sacrificia, ieiunia, eleemosynae et aliae orationes et poenae voluntarie assumtae pro eorum culpis celerius et facilius expiandis. — Prosunt autem mortuis, non quibuscumque, sed « mediocriter bonis », utpote illis qui sunt in purgatorio; « non valde malis », scilicet illis qui sunt in inferno; « nec valde bonis[^p283-4] », scilicet his qui sunt in caelo, quin potius e converso eorum merita et orationes suffragantur Ecclesiae militanti, cuius membris multa beneficia impetrant Beati. — Prosunt autem secundum magis et minus vel pro diversitate meritorum in mortuis, vel pro caritate vivorum, quae magis sollicitatur pro aliquibus quam pro aliis; et hoc vel ad poenarum mitigationem, vel celeriorem liberationem, secundum quod supernae providentiae dispensatio melius eis viderit expedire.

Ratio autem ad intelligentiam praedictorum haec est: quoniam primum principium, cum sit optimum, ac per hoc summae *severitatis* contra malum, debet pariter summae *suavitatis* esse ad bonum; et ideo, cum ratione *severitatis* iustitiae iusti, in quibus est reatus culpae, debeant post hanc vitam in purgatorio tormentari[^p283-5], debent etiam ratione *suavitatis* misericordiae relevari et habere auxilium et munimen, maxime quia in miseria sunt constituti et suis operibus et meritis non possunt amplius se iuvare. Disponere igitur debuit regimen divinae providentiae, suffragia eis conferri ab his qui possunt, salva tamen *rectitudine iustitiae*, a qua nec debet nec potest *dulcedo divinae misericordiae* dissentire nec aliquatenus separari. Quoniam igitur *rectitudo iustitiae* exigit *conservationem honoris divini, regiminis universi* et *qualitatis meriti humani*; ideo superni et primi principii providentia summa disposuit, haec suffragia valere defunctis secundum *dulcedinem misericordiae* et *rectitudinem iustitiae*, servantis honoris divini dignitatem, universi regimen et humani meriti qualitatem.

Primo igitur, quoniam in huiusmodi suffragiis servari debet *iustitia*, quae *divini* praecipue est *conservativa honoris*; et honor divinus nihilominus exigit opera satisfactoria et poenalia sibi persolvi pro culpis: hinc est, quod per illa opera habent suffragia fieri, per quae potissime *fit satisfactio*, et *honor recompensatur* Deo. Quoniam igitur huiusmodi sunt tres partes *satisfactionis*: *ieiunium*, *oratio* et *eleemosyna*, et altaris *sacrificium*, in quo maxime redditur *honor debitus Deo* propter praesentiam illius qui in sacrificio illo offertur: hinc est, quod suffragia Ecclesiae consistunt in huiusmodi operibus satisfactoriis et maxime in Missis celebrandis; secundum quod Gregorius in quarto Dialogorum[^p283-6] insinuat, aliquos propter Missarum beneficia de poenis magnis celerrime liberatos. Ac per hoc pompa exsequiarum et accuratio funeris et huiusmodi non debent inter suffragia Ecclesiae computari. Propter quod et sanctus
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Augustinus dicit in libro de Cura pro mortuis agenda[^p284-1], quod « curatio funeris, conditio sepulturae et pompa exsequiarum magis sunt solatia vivorum quam subsidia mortuorum ».

Amplius, quoniam debet ibi servari iustitia *conservativa ordinis et regiminis universi*; et haec exigit, ut in communicatione influentiarum salvetur ordo et symbolum[^p284-2] inter ea, a quibus et in quae influentiae illae manant; ac per hoc inferius non debeat influere in id quod est supra, neque in id quod est per omnimodam distantiam elongatum: hinc est, quod suffragia Ecclesiae non possunt valere his qui sunt in *inferno*, quia sunt a corpore Christi mystico penitus separati; unde nulla spiritualis influentia ad eos pervenit nec eis prodest, sicut nec influentia capitis prodest membris a corpore amputatis. — Hinc est etiam, quod non prosunt *Beatis*, quia sunt omnino superiores secundum statum, et iam in termino existentes non possunt ad altiora conscendere; sed magis e converso ipsi prosunt nobis et eorum orationes — nam et hoc meruerunt in carne — ideo disposuit ordo divinus, ut etiam ipsis Sanctis Dei orationes offerantur, ut et ipsi suffragentur nobis[^p284-3] ad divina beneficia impetranda. Non prosunt ergo eis ecclesiastica suffragia, sed magis nobis prosunt sua. — Restat igitur, quod prosunt solis *iustis*, qui sunt in *poenis purgatoriis*. Nam ipsi ratione *poenae* et *impotentiae* se iuvandi sunt vivis inferiores, ratione vero *iustitiae* ceteris membris Ecclesiae sunt coniuncti; ita ut merito eis Ecclesiae sanctae merita possint propter symbolum et ordinem suffragari.

Postremo, quoniam debet in his servari iustitia, quae pensat *exigentiam meritorum*; hinc est, quod suffragia illa, quae *communiter* fiunt pro defunctis, licet omnibus bonis valeant pro modulo suo, his tamen amplius valent, qui magis *meruerunt*, ut sibi prodessent et valerent, dum erant in statu viae[^p284-4]. Illa vero, quae *specialiter* fiunt pro aliquibus; quia intentio facientis est recta et secundum Deum procedit, et ecclesiastica institutio absque dubio non est cassa: ideo plus valent illis, pro quibus determinate fiunt, licet etiam aliis aliquo modo communicentur. Nec tamen possunt ita *aliis* subvenire, sicut illi principali personae, pro eo quod, licet sint spiritualia[^p284-5], tamen divina iustitia pro maiori culpa maiorem exigit emendam et pro pluribus culpis plures emendas. Unde exemplum de lumine, quod aequaliter illuminat ad unam mensam sedentes, non placet, quia huiusmodi suffragia potius assimilari habent pretiis redemptivis quam huiusmodi influentiis diffusivis. — Quantum autem cuilibet determinate valeant, ille certitudinaliter definire habet, cuius est in reatibus et poenis et suffragiis pondus attendere et numerum et mensuram[^p284-6].

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### Chapter III. *On the things antecedent to the judgment, of which sort are the ecclesiastical suffrages.*

Now concerning the *ecclesiastical suffrages* this must be held: that the suffrages of the Church profit the dead — suffrages, I say, which the Church makes for the dead, such as sacrifices, fasts, almsgivings and other prayers and punishments voluntarily undertaken for the more speedy and easier expiation of their faults. — But they profit the dead, not any whatsoever, but the « moderately good », namely those who are in purgatory; not the « very wicked », that is, those who are in hell; « nor the very good[^p283-4] », that is, those who are in heaven — rather, on the contrary, their merits and prayers give suffrage to the Church militant, for whose members the Blessed obtain many benefits. — But they profit according to more and less, either on account of the diversity of merits in the dead, or on account of the charity of the living, which is more solicitous for some than for others; and this either for the mitigation of their punishments or for a swifter deliverance, according as the dispensation of the supernal providence shall have seen it better to be expedient for them.

Now the reason for the understanding of the aforesaid is this: since the first principle, being the best, and by this very fact of the highest *severity* against evil, ought equally to be of the highest *sweetness* toward the good; and therefore, since by reason of the *severity* of justice the just, in whom there is the liability of fault, ought after this life to be tormented in purgatory[^p283-5], they ought also by reason of the *sweetness* of mercy to be relieved and to have help and protection, most of all because they are set in misery and by their own works and merits can no longer help themselves. The governance of divine providence therefore had to dispose that suffrages be conferred upon them by those who are able, saving nevertheless the *rectitude of justice*, from which the *sweetness of the divine mercy* neither ought nor can dissent nor in any way be separated. Since therefore the *rectitude of justice* requires the *preservation of the divine honor, of the governance of the universe* and *of the quality of human merit*; therefore the supreme providence of the supernal and first principle disposed that these suffrages avail the departed according to the *sweetness of mercy* and the *rectitude of justice*, which preserves the dignity of the divine honor, the governance of the universe and the quality of human merit.

First therefore, since in suffrages of this kind *justice* must be preserved, which is above all *preservative of the divine honor*; and the divine honor nonetheless requires that satisfactory and penal works be paid out to it for faults: hence it is that suffrages have to be made through those works by which *satisfaction is made* most of all, and *honor is recompensed* to God. Since therefore of this kind are the three parts of *satisfaction*: *fasting*, *prayer* and *almsgiving*, and the *sacrifice* of the altar, in which most of all the *honor due to God* is rendered on account of the presence of Him who is offered in that sacrifice: hence it is that the suffrages of the Church consist in satisfactory works of this kind, and most of all in the celebration of Masses; according as Gregory in the fourth book of the *Dialogues*[^p283-6] intimates that some, on account of the benefits of Masses, were most swiftly delivered from great punishments. And through this the pomp of funeral rites and the careful ordering of a burial and things of this kind ought not to be reckoned among the suffrages of the Church. On account of which the holy
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Augustine also says in the book *On the Care to be Had for the Dead*[^p284-1] that « the ordering of a burial, the manner of interment and the pomp of funeral rites are consolations of the living rather than aids of the dead ».

Further, since there must be preserved there a justice *preservative of the order and governance of the universe*; and this requires that in the communication of influences there be preserved the order and the *symbolum*[^p284-2] between the things from which and into which those influences flow; and through this that the lower ought not to flow into that which is above, nor into that which is removed by an utter distance: hence it is that the suffrages of the Church cannot avail those who are in *hell*, because they are wholly separated from the mystical body of Christ; whence no spiritual influence reaches them nor profits them, just as neither does the influence of the head profit members cut off from the body. — Hence it is also that they do not profit the *Blessed*, because they are altogether superior in state, and, already existing in the term, cannot ascend to higher things; but rather, on the contrary, they themselves profit us, and their prayers do so — for this too they merited in the flesh — therefore the divine order disposed that prayers be offered to God for those Saints themselves also, so that they too may give suffrage to us[^p284-3] for the obtaining of divine benefits. Ecclesiastical suffrages therefore do not profit them, but rather theirs profit us. — It remains therefore that they profit the *just* alone, who are in *purgatorial punishments*. For these, by reason of their *punishment* and of their *impotence* to help themselves, are inferior to the living, but by reason of *justice* they are joined to the other members of the Church; so that deservedly the merits of holy Church can give them suffrage on account of the *symbolum* and the order.

Lastly, since there must be preserved in these things a justice which weighs the *requirement of merits*; hence it is that those suffrages which are made *in common* for the departed, although they avail all the good according to their measure, avail these more amply, who merited the more that they should profit and avail them, while they were in the state of the way[^p284-4]. But those which are made *specially* for certain persons — because the intention of the one making them is right and proceeds according to God, and the ecclesiastical institution is without doubt not void: therefore they avail more those for whom they are determinately made, although they be also in some way communicated to others. Nor yet can they come to the aid of *others* in the way they do that principal person, for the reason that, although they be spiritual things[^p284-5], nevertheless divine justice requires a greater amends for a greater fault and more amends for more faults. Whence the example of the light, which equally illumines those sitting at one table, does not satisfy, because suffrages of this kind have rather to be likened to redemptive prices than to diffusive influences of this kind. — But how much they avail each one determinately, He has to define with certitude whose it is to attend to the weight and the number and the measure in liabilities and punishments and suffrages[^p284-6].

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la: De hac triplici distinctione cfr. IV. Sent. lit. Magistri, d. XLV. c. 2, ubi allegat August., Enchirid. c. 109. n. 29. Ibid. in Comment. a. 2. agitur de suffragiis Ecclesiae pro defunctis, et a. 3, de suffragiis Sanctorum pro vivis.

en: On this threefold distinction cf. IV *Sent.*, the Master's text, d. XLV, c. 2, where he adduces Augustine, *Enchiridion* c. 109, n. 29. In the same place, in the Commentary, a. 2 treats of the suffrages of the Church for the departed, and a. 3 of the suffrages of the Saints for the living.

la: Ed. 1 addit *et expiare*. Mox pro *munimen* I K L O *iuvamen*. Inferius, vocibus *dulcedo misericordiae* cum M S interseruimus *divinae*; pro *superni* I K O *supremi*.

en: Edition 1 adds *et expiare*. Shortly after, for *munimen* I K L O read *iuvamen*. Below, between the words *dulcedo misericordiae*, together with M S, we have inserted *divinae*; for *superni* I K O read *supremi*.

la: Cap. 55. De praecedente cfr. IV. Sent. d. 15. p. II. — Superius voci *debitus* ex G H I K L M V ad iunximus *Deo*.

en: Chapter 55. On what precedes cf. IV *Sent.* d. 15, p. II. — Above, to the word *debitus* we have joined *Deo* from G H I K L M V.

la: Cap. 2. n. 4. — Superius pro *accuratio* F P *curatio*.

en: Chapter 2, n. 4. — Above, for *accuratio* F P read *curatio*.

la: Scilicet commercium sive convenientia. Eodem sensu ait Aristot., II. de Generat. et corrupt. text. 25. (c. 4.): In habentibus [elementis] symbolum facilis est transitus [transmutatio]. — Mox ex I K L M substituimus *a quibus* pro *in quibus*. Subinde post *ac per hoc* B addit *cum*, et aliquanto inferius post *spiritualis influentia* edd., excepta 2, addunt *capitis*.

en: That is, commerce or agreement. In the same sense Aristotle says, *On Generation and Corruption* II, text 25 (c. 4): In things [elements] having a *symbolum*, the transition [transmutation] is easy. — Shortly after, from I K L M we have substituted *a quibus* for *in quibus*. Thereupon, after *ac per hoc* B adds *cum*, and somewhat below, after *spiritualis influentia*, the editions, edition 2 excepted, add *capitis*.

la: Pro *nobis* I K O U V *minus idoneis*.

en: For *nobis* I K O U V read *minus idoneis*.

la: Cfr. IV. Sent. lit. Magistri, d. XLV. c. 2, verba August., Enchirid. c. 109. n. 29, allata. — Superius voci *exigentiam* 1 praemittit *secundum*.

en: Cf. IV *Sent.*, the Master's text, d. XLV, c. 2, the words of Augustine, *Enchiridion* c. 109, n. 29, there adduced. — Above, before the word *exigentiam* edition 1 places *secundum*.

la: Vide supra Quaest. de perfect. evang. q. 4. a. 3. ad 9. — Post *personae* K L O addunt *pro qua fuerint* (L *fiunt*).

en: See above, the *Disputed Questions on Evangelical Perfection*, q. 4, a. 3, ad 9. — After *personae* K L O add *pro qua fuerint* (L *fiunt*).

en: Wisdom 11:21: *Thou hast ordered all things in measure and number and weight.* ---

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**★★ PAGE SPAN — pp. 283–284, TWO LEAVES, AND THE CLOSE IS FIXED POSITIVELY FROM THE `Cap. IV.` HEADING ON THE PLATE.** `Cap. III.` stands centred in p. 283's **LEFT** column at about **55 %** of the leaf, with a **TWO-line** subtitle `De antecedentibus ad iudicium, cuiusmodi sunt / suffragia ecclesiastica.`, immediately below Cap. II's close `…nec amplius puniri debeat spiritus iam purgatus.` — every word of that heading and of the opening period re-set here line by line off the band rather than adopted from the hand-off, which had read them at 2.6× only. The capitulum fills the rest of p. 283's left column and breaks to the right column **MID-QUOTATION** (`« nec valde` / `bonis ⁴ », scilicet his qui sunt in caelo`), runs p. 283's right column to the foot and breaks to p. 284 **MID-SENTENCE at a word boundary** (`Propter quod et sanctus` / `Augustinus dicit in libro de Cura pro mortuis agenda`), fills p. 284's left column and breaks to p. 284's right column **MID-WORD** (`maiorem exi-` / `git emendam`, splitting *exigit*), and **closes about 22 % down p. 284's RIGHT column at `…pondus attendere et numerum et mensuram ⁶.`, immediately above the centred `Cap. IV.` with its TWO-line subtitle `De concomitantibus iudicium, sicut est / conflagratio ignium.`** ★ **That heading, read directly off the band, is what closes Cap. III, and nothing else was used.** The index's hypothesis (Cap. IV at p. 284, therefore Cap. III running 283–284) turns out right and **was used for nothing**. **The running heads were used for nothing**: p. 283's reads `PARS VII. C. III.` although more than half its left column is still Cap. II, and p. 284's already reads `BREVILOQUII PARS VII. C. IV.` although the whole of its left column and the head of its right column are still Cap. III — **the running head running a unit AHEAD on three consecutive leaves now.** ★ **Nor was any break SHAPE treated as evidence.** Cap. III's three internal breaks fall mid-quotation, at a word boundary mid-sentence, and mid-word respectively; its tail `…numerum et mensuram.` is a grammatically complete sentence, which under the frozen rule proves nothing — the heading below it does. The `title_la` is taken from the `Cap. III.` heading itself, not from the volume index.

**Gutters — BOTH leaves measured fresh with no constant, plus one further leaf measured only to close a crossing.**
- **★ p. 283 = 1169, RE-DERIVED, not adopted.** The hand-off's 1169 and its accompanying observation were both treated as claims. `colcrop.py vol5 283` with no constant returns **1169 on a 55 px run**. Eight windows from 5–65 % return 1166–1180; the 5–30 % window (45 px run) is discarded as pinched, and the surviving seven agree **1166–1174 on runs of 56–62 px**. The per-column ink profile over body rows settles it independently: the left column's ink dies at **x = 1142** and the right column's resumes at **x = 1197**, so the zero band is **x = 1142–1196 — genuinely 54 px wide** — with the printed rule standing inside it at **x = 1164–1173, peaking 546 rows over this window, the heaviest inking met in the quire**. Band midpoint **1169**, rule centre 1168.5. **1169 confirmed and adopted**, reproducing the predecessor's value digit for digit, and **its withdrawal of the resume note's "truncated run" diagnosis is confirmed too**: the narrow run is a narrow band, not a pinched measurement.
- **★★ p. 284 = 1386, SETTLED FRESH — and the value `p7-c2` recorded is confirmed without having been adopted.** `colcrop.py vol5 284` with no constant returns **1404 on a 21 px run — a loud failure** by the frozen rule's own threshold. Eight windows from 5–65 % agree **1385–1388 on runs of 61–64 px**; every window from 50 % down collapses back to 1404–1405 on 21–24 px runs and is discarded. The per-column ink profile over body rows shows exactly why: the left column's ink dies at **x = 1354** and the right column's resumes at **x = 1418**, so the band is **x = 1354–1417, 64 px**, with a **lightly inked** rule inside it at **x = 1382–1388** (peaking 69 rows — a twentieth of p. 283's). Band midpoint **1385.5**, rule centre 1385. The default's 21 px "run" is the zero sub-band lying to the RIGHT of the rule only — the rule's ink splits the band in two and the tool's `m+1` threshold takes the cleaner half. **1386 adopted.** ★ **This is the exact complement of p. 283 on the same opening: there a heavily inked rule sat centred and did not move the answer; here a faintly inked rule sits centred and destroys the run anyway, because the noise floor on this leaf is 2 rows and the rule's 60 rows are enough to break it. Ink weight and displacement are two independent variables and neither predicts the other.**
- **p. 285 = 1234, measured only to close the page-crossing test** (see Runovers). Default **1234 on a 61 px run**; fourteen windows from 5–95 % agree **1234–1235 on runs of 61–65 px** — the tightest spread met in this pars. Ink profile: band **x = 1204–1264**, rule at x = 1231–1236, midpoint 1234. **Recorded and used only for the crossing; `bon-brev-p7-c4` must re-derive it.**
- ★ **Twenty-one consecutive leaves now measure 1150 · 1422 · 1163 · 1370 · 1186 · 1373 · 1202 · 1326 · 1164 · 1403 · 1145 · 1392 · 1247 · 1351 · 1191 · 1331 · 1231 · 1357 · 1169 · 1386 · 1234. Parity predicts nothing, proximity predicts nothing.**

**Apparatus source.** Vol V's IA OCR renders footnote numerals as punctuation glyphs — anchor POSITIONS survive in the raw, numbers and footer-entry openers do NOT. **All nine notes here were read off the 450 dpi footer bands** (6 bands at 2.6×, then 14 at 4.6× for the digits and sigla, and 24 at 7.0× on p. 283's right column for a faded run of body words); the counts are band-derived. `audit-apparatus-count` is blind to Vol V; `tools/check-vol5-apparatus.py` is the instrument. **p. 283's total of 6 was established by `bon-brev-p7-c2` and is re-confirmed here from the bands; p. 284's total of 10 is established here** and entered in `KNOWN_TOTALS`.

**★★ THE INCOMING HAND-OFF WAS A CLAIM AND IT WAS RE-DERIVED IN FULL. IT HELD IN EVERY PARTICULAR IT ASSERTED — AND IT ASSERTED ONE THING MORE THAN ITS PREDECESSORS DID, WHICH IS THE THING WORTH RECORDING.** `bon-brev-p7-c2` forwarded p. 283's nn. 4–6 with the block structure and the verbatim text of all three verified, **n. 4's column (LEFT) and the fact that its anchor falls inside Cap. III verified**, and explicitly no anchor, no column and no digit claimed for nn. 5 and 6. Verification level of every note **as established here**:
- **p. 283 n. 4** — text, block position, COLUMN and the fact of Cap. III ownership were inherited **verified** and are **re-verified here**; the ANCHOR WORD, the DIGITS and the sigla-free citation chain are established here. Anchors on `« nec valde bonis ⁴ »` in the **LEFT** column — the anchor sits on the last word of the left column, so the anchor's column and the note's own gutter runover fall on the same line of type. Left footer block, fourth and last entry, **rendered here JOINED** with its unnumbered right-block continuation; its runover was logged by `p7-c2` and is **not re-logged**.
- **p. 283 n. 5** — text inherited; **ANCHOR, COLUMN, DIGITS and SIGLA all established here.** Anchors on `in purgatorio tormentari ⁵,` in the **RIGHT** column, in the *Ratio* period. **The hand-off did not say which column, and it is the right, not the left.**
- **p. 283 n. 6** — text inherited; **ANCHOR, COLUMN, DIGITS and SIGLA all established here.** Anchors on `Gregorius in quarto Dialogorum ⁶ insinuat` in the **RIGHT** column, closing the *Satisfactionis partes* period.
- **p. 284 nn. 1–6** — first-read here. POSITION, COLUMN, ANCHOR WORD, OWNERSHIP, EXTENT, DIGITS and SIGLA **all verified here**. n. 1 on `de Cura pro mortuis agenda ¹,`; n. 2 on `salvetur ordo et symbolum ²`; n. 3 on `ut et ipsi suffragentur nobis ³`; n. 4 on `dum erant in statu viae ⁴.`; n. 5 on `licet sint spiritualia ⁵,` — **all five in the LEFT column**; n. 6 on `et mensuram ⁶.` in the **RIGHT** column, on the capitulum's last words. **nn. 7–10 are Cap. IV's and are forwarded.**

**★ p. 283's SPLIT MAP — the leaf's register is now closed across two chunks.** Left footer block: nn. 1, 2, 3, 4 — **n. 4 straddling the gutter, breaking off at `…Enchirid. c. 109. n. 29.`** with blank paper beneath. Right footer block: n. 4's unnumbered continuation (`Ibid. in Comment. a. 2. agitur de suffragiis…`), then nn. 5, 6, ending complete at `…ad iunximus *Deo*.` **Anchors:** nn. 1, 2, 3, 4 **LEFT**; nn. 5, 6 **RIGHT**. **Total 6. Block split 4/2, anchor split 4/2, capitulum split 3/3.** ★ **Block and anchor coincide on this leaf and the capitulum cut does not** — it falls inside the left column and inside the left footer block, above the block break. **On p. 282 the block and anchor splits differed (4/3 against 3/4); here they agree. Nothing follows from either; they are independent structures that sometimes land together.**

**★★ p. 284's SPLIT MAP — read in full here although only six of its ten notes are owned here, because the leaf's total is this chunk's to establish.** Left footer block: nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ending **complete** at `— Post *personae* K L O addunt *pro qua fuerint* (L *fiunt*).` with a very large blank tail beneath and no printer's signature. Right footer block: nn. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, ending complete at `Cfr. supra Prolog. § 2. et p. II. c. 4. in fine.` with blank paper beneath. **Anchors:** nn. 1–5 **LEFT**; nn. 6–10 **RIGHT**. **Total 10 — the largest register on any leaf of Pars VII so far. Block split 5/5, anchor split 5/5, capitulum split 6/4.** ★ **The capitulum boundary falls inside the RIGHT footer block, between nn. 6 and 7, while the block and anchor breaks fall together at the gutter** — the mirror image of p. 283, where the capitulum cut inside the LEFT block and the other two coincided at the gutter. **Two leaves, two different arrangements of the same three structures. Read anchors, only anchors.**

**★ SIGLA — seven runs on these two leaves, and the one-upright rule decides five of them.**
1. **`I K L O` (p. 283 n. 5, *iuvamen*)** and **`I K O` (p. 283 n. 5, *supremi*)** — the first sort is a **SINGLE upright** and is therefore `I`, never a crossbar-less `H`, which needs two. Both runs ascend. The raw prints them `I K L 0` and `I K 0`, merging `O` to a zero — the corruption class the frozen rule names — and agrees on the `I`.
2. **`M S` (p. 283 n. 5)** — two unambiguous sorts; the raw agrees.
3. **★★ `G H I K L M V` (p. 283 n. 6) — the hardest shape in the volume, and the band settles it at 4.6×.** The second sort stands on **TWO uprights** with no crossbar (`H`); the third stands on **ONE** (`I`); they are adjacent. Stroke count decides it and the run's **alphabetical order** corroborates: `G < H < I < K < L < M < V` ascends. The raw prints `G II 1 K L M V`, flattening the `H` to two digits and the `I` to a `1` — it cannot decide the pair and does not need to.
4. **`I K L M` (p. 284 n. 2)** and **`I K O U V` (p. 284 n. 3)** — same decision, same evidence: one upright, ascending order.
5. **`K L O` and `L` (p. 284 n. 5)**, **`F P` (p. 284 n. 1)**, **`B` (p. 284 n. 2)** — unambiguous single or double sorts.
6. **EDITION sigla standing in the same registers as the codex letters:** `Ed. 1` (p. 283 n. 5), `1` (p. 284 n. 4), `excepta 2` and `edd.` (p. 284 n. 2). The independent check is that Vol V has only three editions (1, 2, 3) beside `Vat.`, so **`Ed. 4` is not a possible reading at all** and the serif `1` is settled by exhaustion.

**Digits settled off the band, each with something independent agreeing** (per the frozen rule). ★ **The hand-off's warning not to calibrate on `p7-c2`'s nine consecutive `1`/`4` decisions was well placed: these two leaves run BOTH classes, and the two hardest decisions — `Cap. 55` (a `3`/`5`) and `d. 15` (a `1`/`4`) — stand eleven characters apart in the SAME note, exactly as forecast.**
- **★★ p. 283 n. 4's `d. XLV. c. 2` and `Enchirid. c. 109. n. 29` — settled DECISIVELY by the body's own quotation.** Augustine, *Enchiridion* c. 109 (§ 29) is the *valde boni / non valde mali / mediocriter boni* passage ✓, which this capitulum's opening period quotes verbatim inside guillemets. `d. XLV` is roman and carries no risk class. The raw's footer independently prints `d. XLV. c. 2` and `c. 109. n. 29`.
- **★★ p. 283 n. 4's continuation, `a. 2` and `a. 3` — settled DECISIVELY by reading the targets.** In Vol IV `bon-sent-IV-d45-a2-q1/q2/q3` are *Utrum suffragia prosint defunctis mediocriter bonis* / *Utrum defunctis prosint suffragia facta per malos* / *Utrum suffragia magis prosint ei qui magis meruit, an ei, pro quo specialiter fiunt* ✓ — the suffrages of the Church for the departed, entire; and `-a3-q1/q2/q3` are *Utrum Sancti orent pro nobis* / *Utrum Sancti nobis aliqua impetrent suis orationibus* / *Utrum utile sit nobis rogare Sanctos* ✓ — the suffrages of the Saints for the living, entire. The note's own description of a. 2 and a. 3 matches the corpus article for article.
- **★★ p. 283 n. 6's `Cap. 55` — a `3`/`5` decision settled by the anchor's own content and by the raw.** Gregory, *Dialogues* IV, c. 55 is the chapter on the sacrifice of the altar delivering souls from punishment ✓ — precisely what the anchor says Gregory *insinuat*. `c. 33` is not that chapter. **The raw's footer on p. 283 independently prints `Cap. 55.`** — two witnesses, which is the standard the frozen rule sets.
- **★★ p. 283 n. 6's `IV. Sent. d. 15. p. II.` — a `1`/`4` decision settled DECISIVELY by reading the target.** Vol IV `bon-sent-IV-d15-p2-*` is the *satisfactio* pars entire, and its a. 2 runs `Utrum ieiunio contingat satisfacere` · `Utrum restitutio sit pars satisfactionis` · `Utrum oratione contingat satisfacere` · `Utrum eleemosyna sit facienda de rebus propriis…` ✓ — **the three parts of satisfaction the anchor has just named (*ieiunium, oratio et eleemosyna*), which is exactly what `De praecedente` points back to.** `d. 45` is impossible here (it is the suffrages distinction, cited two notes earlier under its own name).
- **★★ p. 284 n. 2's `II. de Generat. et corrupt. text. 25. (c. 4.)` — settled DECISIVELY against Quaracchi's own parallel citations in this corpus.** `bon-sent-II-d33-a1-q1` note 3 prints `Aristot., II. de Generat. et corrupt. text. 25. (c. 4.)` **and glosses *symbolum* in the same note**, and `bon-sent-IV-d12-p1-a1-q3` note 8 prints the identical locus. Both digits corroborated by the editors' own hand elsewhere.
- **★★ p. 284 n. 5's `Quaest. de perfect. evang. q. 4.` — a `1`/`4` decision settled by the target's own structure.** *De perfectione evangelica* is in this very tome; its q. I has **one** article only (*De humilitate quoad actum ipsius*), so **`q. 1. a. 3.` is not a possible reading at all**, while q. IV (*De obedientia*) has three, of which a. 3 is *De obedientia summo Pontifici debita* ✓.
- **★★ p. 284 n. 6's `Sap. 11, 21` — settled by the verse the anchor prints.** Wisdom 11:21 Vulgate reads *omnia in mensura et numero et pondere disposuisti* ✓, quoted in the note itself against the anchor's `pondus attendere et numerum et mensuram`. The same citation is printed elsewhere in this volume's raw as `Sap. 11, 21`, independently.
- **★ p. 284 n. 1's `Cap. 2. n. 4.` — settled by the quotation.** Augustine, *De cura pro mortuis* c. 2 n. 4 contains *curatio funeris, conditio sepulturae, pompa exsequiarum magis sunt vivorum solatia quam subsidia mortuorum* ✓ — quoted verbatim at this anchor.

**⚠ A FADED VERTICAL STREAK IN THE SCAN OF p. 283'S RIGHT COLUMN, AND WHY IT RAISES NO `[?]` FLAG.** Six body words in a narrow vertical band of p. 283's right column are partly bleached in the source scan (not in the plate): `haec` in `disposuit, haec suffragia valere`, `misericordiae` in `secundum dulcedinem misericordiae`, `quo` in `in quo maxime`, `praesentiam` in `propter praesentiam illius`, `est` in `hinc est, quod suffragia`, and `beneficia` in `propter Missarum beneficia`. Each was re-read at 4.6× and again at **7.0×**, which recovered no further ink — the loss is photographic, not resolution-limited. **Every one is recoverable from the surviving letters together with the grammar** (`haec suffragia valere` is the accusative-and-infinitive governed by *disposuit*; *misericordiae* is required by *dulcedinem*; *in quo* by *sacrificium*; *praesentiam* shows `pr…entiam`; *est* completes *hinc est*), and the raw agrees wherever it agrees with anything. **None is a genuinely ambiguous reading, so none is flagged;** the streak is recorded here because the next reader of this leaf will meet it and should not mistake it for a plate defect.

**Runover tests — TWO RUN, BOTH NEGATIVE, both closed from both sides.**
- *Gutter, p. 284's own — **NEGATIVE**.* p. 284's left footer block ends **complete** at n. 5's `— Post *personae* K L O addunt *pro qua fuerint* (L *fiunt*).`, with a very large blank tail beneath it and **no printer's signature** (p. 284 carries none; the next is due around p. 289). From the lower side, **p. 284's right block opens NUMBERED** at `⁶ Sap. 11, 21: Omnia in mensura et numero et pondere disposuisti.` Nothing logged.
- *Page-crossing, p. 284 → p. 285 — **NEGATIVE**, closed from both sides.* p. 284's right block ends **complete** at n. 10's `Cfr. supra Prolog. § 2. et p. II. c. 4. in fine.` with blank paper beneath; and **p. 285's left block opens NUMBERED** at `¹ Vide Glossam in Isai. 30, 26. tom. IV. pag. 989, nota 7.` p. 285 was extracted, measured and cropped for this test alone. **This test is closed and `bon-brev-p7-c4` need not re-run it.** Nothing logged.
- *NOT re-logged here, and rendered rather than re-tested:* **`p.283 n.4:gutter`** — `p7-c2` logged it POSITIVE from both sides; this chunk **owns** the note and renders it joined, which is a different act from logging it.
- *NOT re-run here:* the **p. 283 → p. 284 page-crossing**, which `p7-c2` closed from both sides as NEGATIVE.
- *NOT re-logged here:* `p.282 n.4:gutter` and `p.281 n.3:gutter` (both `p7-c1`, both POSITIVE), the p. 281 → p. 282 and p. 282 → p. 283 tests (both `p7-c1`, both NEGATIVE); the p. 280 → p. 281 test, p. 280's own gutter test and the p. 279 → p. 280 test (all three `p6-c13`, all NEGATIVE); `p.279 n.3:gutter`, `p.278 n.2:gutter`, `p.277 n.7:page` (all three `p6-c12`, all POSITIVE) and the p. 278 → p. 279 test (`p6-c12`, NEGATIVE); p. 277's own gutter test and the p. 276 → p. 277 test (both `p6-c11`, both NEGATIVE); `p.276 n.3:gutter` and the p. 275 → p. 276 test (both `p6-c10`); `p.274 n.5:gutter`, `p.275 n.4:gutter`, the p. 273 → p. 274 and p. 274 → p. 275 tests (all four `p6-c9`); `p.273 n.5:gutter` and the p. 272 → p. 273 test (both `p6-c8`); `p.272 n.5:gutter` and the p. 271 → p. 272 test (both `p6-c7`); `p.270 n.4:gutter`, the p. 270 → p. 271 test and p. 271's own gutter test (all three `p6-c6`); `p.269 n.4:gutter` and the p. 269 → p. 270 test (both `p6-c5`); `p.268 n.4:gutter` and the p. 268 → p. 269 test (both `p6-c4`); `p.267 n.4:gutter` and the p. 267 → p. 268 test (both `p6-c3`); `p.266 n.3:gutter` and the p. 266 → p. 267 test (both `p6-c2`); p. 265's own gutter test and the p. 265 → p. 266 test (both `p6-c1`); the p. 264 → p. 265 test, p. 264's own gutter test and the p. 263 → p. 264 test (all `p5-c10`); and everything on the earlier do-not-re-log lists. Corpus-wide runover and chunk totals are **not written here** — derive them with `tools/check-vol5-census.py`.

**★ THE PRINTER'S SIGNATURE.** Neither p. 283 nor p. 284 carries `S. Bonav. — Tom. V.` or a quire number; both feet of both leaves were checked at 2.6× and again at 4.6×, and both are blank paper. The eight-leaf cadence puts quire 36 on p. 281 and **the next is due around p. 289**, which is off this chunk's leaves. Nothing of the kind was transcribed into the apparatus, and no note's foot was mistaken for one.

**Marginalia** (Quaracchi editorial side-glosses, trimmed from the body per corpus convention; logged here in body order; glosses stand in the outer margin of each column): p. 283 left column — "Thesis 1." — "Thesis 2."; p. 283 right column — "Thesis 3." — "Ratio." — "Pro thesi 1." — "Rectitudo iustitiae exigit tria in suffragiis servanda." — "Ex primo arguitur." — "Satisfactionis partes 3."; p. 284 left column — "Item, ex secundo pro thesi 2." — "Non prosunt damnatis." — "Nec Beatis." — "Intercessio Sanctorum." — "Sed purgandis." — "Item, ex tertio pro thesi 3." — "Suffragia communia." — "Specialia."; p. 284 right column — "Notandum." ★ **Seventeen glosses, and Cap. III does re-use its predecessors' skeleton — three theses, a `Ratio.`, and an explicit discharging series (`Ex primo arguitur.` → `Item, ex secundo pro thesi 2.` → `Item, ex tertio pro thesi 3.`) with topic nouns interleaved — but it inflects the series differently: its ordinals are NEUTER (`ex primo`, `ex secundo`, `ex tertio`, agreeing with the neuter members of the *rectitudo iustitiae* triad) where Cap. II's agreed with *thesis* (`ex secunda`, `ex tertia`). **Twelve chapters, twelve forms; the family resemblance to the two immediately preceding is now three chapters long and still proves nothing about the thirteenth.** ★ **The `Thesis N.` and `pro thesi N.` numerals are all `1`/`4` decisions settled by the SERIES**: there are exactly three theses and `2` and `3` print unambiguously, so the opening member can only be 1. ★ **The incoming gloss list, read at 2.6× or from the raw, is CORRECTED here in two places: `Conservationum honoris divini, regiminis universi, suffragiis servanda.` is in fact `Rectitudo iustitiae exigit tria in suffragiis servanda.` (a four-line gloss whose first three lines the raw shattered), and `Primo argumentum…` is in fact `Ex primo arguitur.`** The nine p. 284 glosses were unknown to the hand-off, which claimed no span. All seventeen are band reads.

**Raw-quality grade, per page, per region and per column-run** (the raw was a cross-check only, never the base). **p. 283 body — moderate and EVEN in both columns**, the chronic bracket-and-ligature class confined to single letters (`sulTragia`, `mortois` for *mortuis*, `quibu.scumque`, `mahs` for *malis*, `nierit;i`, `tienelicia`, `impelrant Ikvali` for *impetrant Beati*, `sollicitatui'`, `iioenarinii iiiitigationem`, `.tuavilatis`, `rnunimen`, `reclitudo iu.Hitiae`, `conservatioa`), **plus one whole-word dropout at the fade streak** (`ec sufTragia`, `misericord ju;`, `in aso maxime`, `propter plr ^ntiam`) where the raw reproduces the scan's own damage rather than compounding it. **p. 283 footer — CLEAN**, reproducing all six entries substantially right and **independently confirming `d. XLV. c. 2`, `c. 109. n. 29.`, `Cap. 55.`, `a. 2` / `a. 3` and every siglum run except the `G H I` triple**, which it flattens to `G II 1`. **p. 284 body — moderate**, the same class (`.Vugusliiuis`, `seiiulturae`, `s;uvetur`, `infernu`, `«;parati`, `protlest membjis`, `(]U(rI rion`, `iuslis`, `meruerii.nt`, `[)ro aliquiinis`, `idiis subvenire`, `[iretiis redeni[)tivis`) — **and note that the raw's page number prints `-584` for 284, its own `2`/`5` damage in the running head.** **★★ p. 284 footer — ABSENT. The raw carries NO footer block for this leaf at all**: it runs the right column's body straight into the `Cap. IV.` heading and skips all ten notes. **This is a failure mode the frozen rule does not yet name — not a degraded footer but a missing one — and it means every digit and every siglum in p. 284's ten-note register had to be settled from the band and from the corpus, with no second witness available at any point.** It is also invisible to any check that compares counts, because there is nothing to count. **Grade per page, per region AND per column-run; on these two leaves the footer went clean → absent while the body stayed level.**

**⚠ NO NEW `[?]` FLAG IS RAISED HERE.** Nothing on either leaf was found to be ambiguous after the band work; the faded streak on p. 283 (above) is a scan defect with a determinate reading and is recorded, not flagged. ★ **One reading is transcribed as printed and deliberately not normalised:** p. 284's body names Augustine's work `de Cura pro mortuis agenda`, where the received title is *De cura pro mortuis gerenda*. **The plate is transcribed exactly as printed and is NOT emended**; the form is Bonaventure's, the sense is unaffected, and Quaracchi's own footnote to it (`Cap. 2. n. 4.`) resolves to the right work. This is not a flag, it is a note that no one should "fix" it.

**⚠ THREE INHERITED `[?]` FLAGS TRAVEL FORWARD, NONE RESOLVED, NONE RE-FLAGGED.**
1. **INHERITED, UNRESOLVED, FORWARDED — p. 271 n. 2, `E F G H minus, aptae ponunt et`** (owned by `bon-brev-p6-c6`). **p. 271 is off this chunk's leaves entirely.** Forwarded to `bon-brev-p7-c4` unchanged.
2. **INHERITED, UNRESOLVED, FORWARDED — p. 272 n. 6, `Respicitur Col. 6, 12.`** (owned by `bon-brev-p6-c7`). Colossians still has four chapters and the sense still requires Ephes. 6:12; **no disposition is recorded, and `build-citations.py`'s QA line on it remains expected behaviour, not a defect.** Forwarded to `bon-brev-p7-c4`.
3. **INHERITED, UNRESOLVED, FORWARDED — p. 282 n. 4's lemma `Pro *quibus sufficienter purgatis*` against the body's `expurgatis`** (raised and owned by `bon-brev-p7-c2`). **p. 282 is off this chunk's leaves and this chunk brings nothing new to it**; it stands exactly as `p7-c2` left it. Forwarded to `bon-brev-p7-c4`.
★ **Flags that are DISCHARGED or CLOSED and are NOT resurrected here: `p6-c10`'s `d. 23.`, the `c. 13.` flag on p. 277 n. 7, and p. 280 n. 6's `homo non separe`, which `p6-c13` settled as a plate defect within its own chunk and did not forward.** ★ **And one QA line that is not a defect: `bon-brev-p6-c8`'s `apparatus:p273-6` dangling `tom. I. pag. 155` is GALLAND's *Bibliotheca*, a parser limitation.**

**Register — the SUFFRAGES vocabulary was CONSULTED from the Vol IV settlement and FOLLOWED, not innovated; the purgatorial and eschatological settlements from `p7-c1` and `p7-c2` are carried unchanged.** ★ **The apparatus named its own targets and they were read.** **Vol IV chunks consulted:** **`bon-sent-IV-d45-a1-q1…q3`, `-a2-q1…q3`, `-a3-q1…q3`, `-divisio`, `-dubia` and `-littera`** — the whole suffrages distinction, which p. 283 n. 4 and p. 284 n. 4 both cite by the Master's chapter and whose a. 2 / a. 3 division the notes describe; **`bon-sent-IV-d15-p2-a1-q1…q4` and `-a2-q1…q4`** — the *satisfactio* pars, the target of p. 283 n. 6's `De praecedente`, and the source of the *ieiunium / oratio / eleemosyna* rendering; and, carried rather than re-read, `bon-sent-IV-d20-p1-*`, `bon-sent-IV-d21-p1-a1-q2` / `-a2-q1` and `bon-sent-IV-d44-p2-a3-q2` for the purgatorial vocabulary `p7-c2` locked. **Carried from that settlement, not re-decided:** ***suffragia Ecclesiae* → "the suffrages of the Church"** and ***prosunt* → "profit"**, both straight from d. 45's own question titles (*Utrum suffragia prosint defunctis mediocriter bonis*); ***mediocriter boni* → "the moderately good"**, again d. 45's word, kept against the temptation of "middling"; ***reatus* → "liability"** (Vol IV d. 21's word, kept distinct from *culpa* → "fault"); ***poenae purgatoriae* → "purgatorial punishments"**; ***satisfactio* → "satisfaction"**, ***ieiunium / oratio / eleemosyna* → "fasting / prayer / almsgiving"**, d. 15 p. II's renderings exactly. ⚠ ***suffragia ecclesiastica* → "ecclesiastical suffrages" is kept DISTINCT from *suffragia Ecclesiae* → "the suffrages of the Church", as `p7-c2` required, and this capitulum's first period uses BOTH forms one clause apart** (`De suffragiis autem ecclesiasticis` … `suffragia Ecclesiae prosunt mortuis`); **they are rendered apart and are not merged.** **Fixed here for this capitulum:** *non valde mali / nec valde boni* → "the very wicked / the very good", tracking *mediocriter boni*; *suffragantur* → "give suffrage to" where the dative is a person or body and "avail" where the sense is quantitative (*quantum valeant*), the plate itself alternating *suffragantur* with *valere*; *Ecclesia militans* → "the Church militant"; *mitigatio poenarum* / *celerior liberatio* → "the mitigation of punishments" / "a swifter deliverance"; *altaris sacrificium* → "the sacrifice of the altar"; *honor debitus Deo* → "the honor due to God"; *pompa exsequiarum* → "the pomp of funeral rites"; *accuratio funeris* → "the careful ordering of a burial" (and Augustine's *curatio funeris* → "the ordering of a burial", the two kept audibly different because n. 1 records that F P read *curatio* for *accuratio* — **the variant is preserved, not levelled**); *conditio sepulturae* → "the manner of interment"; *symbolum* → left in Latin and italicised, because n. 2 is a note on the word itself and glosses it *commercium sive convenientia*; *emenda* → "amends"; *pretia redemptiva* → "redemptive prices" against *influentiae diffusivae* → "diffusive influences"; *communiter / specialiter* → "in common / specially", the pair the whole third member turns on. Quaracchi's em-dash articulations are preserved throughout, and Bonaventure's *quia/cum/ideo* chains are kept as one English sentence — the *Ratio* period, the *Primo igitur* period (which runs unbroken across the page break) and the *Amplius* and *Postremo* periods each run as a single sentence.


site: bonaventure

collection: Breviloquium

title: Pars 7, Cap. 4

author: St. Bonaventure

languages: en la

title: Opera Omnia (Quaracchi critical edition)

publisher: Collegii S. Bonaventurae

source_text:
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### Capitulum IV. *De concomitantibus iudicium, sicut est conflagratio ignium.*

Deinde aliquid *adiiciendum* est de *concomitantibus* iudicium, quae sunt duo, scilicet *conflagratio ignium* mundanorum et *resurrectio corporum*[^p284-7].

De *conflagratione* igitur hoc tenendum est, quod ignis praecedet faciem iudicis, quo terrae facies exuretur, ita quod *figura huius mundi*[^p284-8] mundanorum ignium conflagratione peribit, sicut factum est aquarum inundatione diluvium. — Dicitur autem transire *figura huius mundi* non quantum ad destructionem totalem huius mundi sensibilis, sed quia per actionem illius ignis omnia elementaria inflammantis *consummentur vegetabilia et animalia, purgabuntur et innovabuntur elementa*, maxime aër et terra, *purgabuntur iusti et adurentur reprobi*; quibus factis, cessabit etiam motus caeli, ut sic, completo numero electorum, fiat quodam modo *innovatio et praemiatio* corporum mundanorum[^p284-9].

Ratio autem ad intelligentiam praedictorum haec est: quia principium rerum universale, cum sit sapientissimum; etsi in omnibus, quae agit, attendat ordinem sapientiae, potissime autem in his debet attendere, quae spectant ad consummationem; ut sic non discordet primum a medio, nec medium a postremo, sed in cunctis congruentissime ordinatis appareat illius primi principii sapientia ordinans et bonitas et altitudo. Quoniam ergo Deus secundum sapientiam suam ordinatissimam cunctum mundum istum sensibilem et maiorem fecit propter mundum minorem, videlicet hominem[^p284-10], qui inter Deum et res istas inferiores in medio collocatus est; hinc est, quod
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ut omnia sibi invicem congruant, et habitatio cum habitatore habeat harmoniam, homine *bene instituto*, debuit mundus iste in bono et quieto statu institui; homine *labente*, debuit etiam mundus iste deteriorari; homine *perturbato*, debuit perturbari; homine *expurgato*, debuit expurgari; homine *innovato*, debuit innovari; et homine *consummato*, debuit quietari[^p285-1].

Primo ergo, quoniam mundus iste *perturbari* debet, homine *perturbato*, sicut stetit cum stante et quodam modo cecidit cum labente; et in futuro iudicio propter severitatem iudicis ostendendam necesse est omnium corda terreri, et peccatorum maxime, qui universorum Dominum contempserunt, ut sic omnis creatura divinum accipiat zelum[^p285-2] et conformetur auctori, conformetur etiam habitatori: necesse est, totius orbis cardines horribilissime *commoveri*. Et quia nihil intensius et velocius et horribilius in agendo commovet alia elementa quam ignis hinc inde ex omni parte concurrens; hinc est, quod necesse est, quod ipsius iudicis faciem ignis praecedat, non ex una parte tantum, sed ex omni parte mundi, ut sit ibi concursus ignis *elementaris* et *terrestris*, ignis *purgatorii* et etiam *infernalis*, ut per *infernalem* reprobi adurantur, per *purgatorium* iusti purgentur, per *terrestrem* haec terrae nascentia consumantur, per *elementarem* elementa subtilientur et ad innovationis faciem disponantur, et simul cum hoc cetera conturbentur, ut non solum homines et daemones, verum etiam Angeli videntes terreantur.

Rursus, quoniam mundus iste *purgari* debet cum homine *expurgando*[^p285-3]; et homo in statu finalis temporis indiget purgari a scoria *avaritiae* et *malitiae*, sicut in primo tempore a faece *luxuriae*; indiget etiam purgari et *velociter* et *intime* et *perfecte*: hinc est, quod sicut mundus prius deletus est et quodam modo purgatus per elementum *aquae*, quod est frigidum, contra ardorem et faecem luxuriae; sic finalis mundus per *ignem* propter refrigerium caritatis[^p285-4] et frigus malitiae et avaritiae, quae regnabunt in fine quasi in ipsius mundi senectute. Quae quia maximae sunt adhaerentiae, necesse est, quod purgans sit actionis *intimae*, *violentae* et *acceleratae*; quod non contingit reperiri in elemento alio quam in igne. Et ideo sicut factum est aquarum inundatione diluvium, sic per actionem ignis huius mundi sensibilis facies exuretur[^p285-5].

Amplius, quoniam mundus iste *innovari* debet cum homine *innovato*[^p285-6]; nec innovari potest aliquid in novam formam, nisi perdat vetustam et quodam modo disponatur dispositione nova superinducta: hinc est, quod cum ignis maxime habeat virtutem *expulsivam* formae extraneae, habeat etiam vim *subtiliativam* et caelesti naturae cognatam: ideo per ipsum debet fieri *purgatio* simul et *innovatio*, ita quod, cum geminam habeat efficaciam, quantum ad *aliquam* iudicis adventum praecedit, quantum autem ad *reliquam* habet sequi. Et cum innovatio sit ad novitatem, quae amplius non redit ad vetustatem; ac per hoc ad novitatem incorruptibilem, quam dare non est in potentia alicuius creaturae: hinc est, quod licet in illa purgatione et innovatione ignis aliquid agat per *naturalem* virtutem, ut inflammare, purgare, rarefacere et subtiliare, tamen necesse est, quod cum illa virtute naturali sit virtus operans *supra naturam*, cuius imperio fiet conflagrationis initium, et cuius etiam virtute fiet nihilominus complementum.

Postremo, quoniam mundus iste debet *consummari*, homine *consummato*; et tunc est homo consummatus, quando in gloria completus erit numerus electorum, ad quem quidem statum omnia tendunt sicut ad finem ultimum et completum: necesse est, facta[^p285-7] completione illius numeri, terminari et quietari *motus naturae caelestis*; necesse est etiam, terminari *transmutationes elementares*; necesse est etiam per consequens, terminari *generationem*, quae est in *animalibus* et in *plantis*. Cum enim omnia ista ordinentur ad formam nobilissimam, quae quidem est anima rationalis; posito statu in animabus[^p285-8], necesse est, statum et complementum poni in ceteris praecedentibus. — Et ideo corpora *caelestia*, habita quiete et luminis plenitudine, dicuntur *remunerari*. *Elementa* vero, quae amplius non habent vim multiplicandi per transmutationem mutuam, dicuntur *interire*, non quantum ad substantiam, sed quantum ad actionem et passionem mutuam, et hoc maxime quantum ad qualitates activas. *Vegetabilia* vero et *sensibilia*, quia non habent potestatem ad vitam perpetuam et durationem sempiternam, qualis competit
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statui illius nobilitatis; necesse est in propria natura consumi, ita tamen, quod salvantur in *principiis* et quodam modo in *simili*, videlicet in homine, qui similitudinem habet cum omni genere creaturae[^p286-1]; et ideo in ipsius innovatione et glorificatione possunt dici omnia *innovari* et quodam modo *praemiari*.

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### Chapter IV. *On the things concomitant with the judgment, of which sort is the conflagration of fires.*

Next, something must be *added* concerning the things *concomitant* with the judgment, which are two, namely the *conflagration* of the world's *fires* and the *resurrection of bodies*[^p284-7].

Concerning the *conflagration*, therefore, this must be held: that a fire will go before the face of the Judge, by which the face of the earth will be burned up, so that the *figure of this world*[^p284-8] will perish by the conflagration of the world's fires, as the flood came about by the inundation of the waters. — But the *figure of this world* is said to pass away, not as regards the total destruction of this sensible world, but because through the action of that fire, which sets ablaze all elemental things, *plants and animals will be consumed, the elements will be purged and renewed* — most of all air and earth — *the just will be purged and the reprobate scorched*; and when these things are done, the motion of the heaven will also cease, so that thus, when the number of the elect is complete, there may come about in a certain way the *renewal and rewarding* of the world's bodies[^p284-9].

Now the reason for the understanding of the aforesaid is this: since the universal principle of things, being most wise — although in all the things which it does it attends to the order of wisdom, yet most of all it must attend to it in those things which regard the consummation; so that thus the first may not be out of accord with the middle, nor the middle with the last, but that in all things most fittingly ordered there may appear that first principle's ordering wisdom and goodness and loftiness. Since therefore God, according to his most ordered wisdom, made this whole sensible and greater world for the sake of the lesser world, namely man[^p284-10], who is placed in the middle between God and these lower things; hence it is that,
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in order that all things may be mutually congruent and the dwelling have harmony with the dweller, man being *well instituted*, this world had to be instituted in a good and quiet state; man *falling*, this world too had to be made worse; man being *disturbed*, it had to be disturbed; man being *purged out*, it had to be purged out; man being *renewed*, it had to be renewed; and man being *consummated*, it had to be brought to rest[^p285-1].

First, therefore, since this world must be *disturbed*, man being *disturbed* — as it stood with him standing and in a certain way fell with him falling; and since in the future judgment, for the showing forth of the Judge's severity, it is necessary that the hearts of all be terrified, and most of all those of sinners, who despised the Lord of all things, so that thus every creature may take up the divine zeal[^p285-2] and be conformed to its Author, and conformed also to its dweller: it is necessary that the hinges of the whole world be most horribly *shaken*. And because nothing more intensely and more swiftly and more horribly in its acting shakes the other elements than fire running together from this side and that out of every quarter: hence it is that it is necessary that fire go before the face of the Judge himself, not from one quarter only, but from every quarter of the world, so that there may be there a concurrence of *elemental* and *terrestrial* fire, of *purgatorial* and also of *infernal* fire, so that by the *infernal* the reprobate may be scorched, by the *purgatorial* the just may be purged, by the *terrestrial* these things growing from the earth may be consumed, by the *elemental* the elements may be made subtle and disposed toward the face of the renewal, and together with this the rest may be thrown into confusion, so that not only men and demons, but the Angels also, beholding it, may be terrified.

Again, since this world must be *purged* along with man who is *to be purged out*[^p285-3]; and man, in the state of the final time, needs to be purged from the dross of *avarice* and of *malice*, as in the first time from the dregs of *luxury*; and needs also to be purged both *swiftly* and *inwardly* and *perfectly*: hence it is that, just as the world was formerly destroyed and in a certain way purged through the element of *water*, which is cold, against the burning and the dregs of luxury; so the final world is purged through *fire*, on account of the cooling of charity[^p285-4] and the coldness of malice and avarice, which will reign at the end as in the old age of the world itself. And because these are adherences of the greatest kind, it is necessary that what purges be of an *inward*, *violent* and *accelerated* action; which does not happen to be found in any other element than in fire. And therefore, as the flood came about by the inundation of the waters, so through the action of fire the face of this sensible world will be burned up[^p285-5].

Further, since this world must be *renewed* along with man who is *renewed*[^p285-6]; and nothing can be renewed into a new form unless it lose the old one and be in a certain way disposed by a new disposition superinduced: hence it is that, since fire most of all has the power *expulsive* of an extraneous form, and has also a *subtiliating* force akin to the celestial nature: therefore through it there must come about *purgation* together with *renewal*, in such wise that, since it has a twofold efficacy, as regards *one* part it goes before the Judge's coming, but as regards the *remaining* part it has to follow. And since renewal is toward a newness which no more returns to oldness, and through this toward an incorruptible newness, which it is not in the power of any creature to give: hence it is that, although in that purgation and renewal fire does something through its *natural* power — as to set ablaze, to purge, to rarefy and to make subtle — nevertheless it is necessary that together with that natural power there be a power operating *above nature*, by whose command the beginning of the conflagration will come about, and by whose power its completion will none the less come about.

Lastly, since this world must be *consummated*, man being *consummated*; and man is then consummated when in glory the number of the elect shall have been completed, toward which state indeed all things tend as toward the last and complete end: it is necessary that, when[^p285-7] the completion of that number has been made, the *motions of the celestial nature* be terminated and brought to rest; it is necessary also that the *elemental transmutations* be terminated; it is necessary also, in consequence, that *generation* be terminated, which is in *animals* and in *plants*. For since all these things are ordered toward the most noble form, which indeed is the rational soul; when a settled state has been posited in souls[^p285-8], it is necessary that the settled state and completion be posited in the other things that precede. — And therefore the *celestial* bodies, having obtained rest and the fullness of light, are said to be *rewarded*. But the *elements*, which no longer have the force of multiplying through mutual transmutation, are said to *perish*, not as regards substance, but as regards mutual action and passion, and this most of all as regards the active qualities. But *plants* and *sensible things*, because they do not have the power for perpetual life and everlasting duration, such as befits
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the state of that nobility, must be consumed in their proper nature — yet in such wise that they are preserved in their *principles* and in a certain way in something *like* them, namely in man, who has a likeness with every kind of creature[^p286-1]; and therefore in his renewal and glorification all things can be said to be *renewed* and in a certain way *rewarded*.

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la: De his duobus agitur in hoc et seq. cap. — Superius posuimus *adiiciendum* secundum multos codd., inter quos M P R, pro *dicendum*, F *addendum*.

en: These two are treated in this and the following chapter. — Above we have set *adiiciendum* according to many codices, among which M P R, in place of *dicendum*; F has *addendum*.

la: Epist. I. Cor. 7, 31: Praeterit enim figura etc. — De diluvio cfr. Gen. 7, 1. seqq. Vide etiam II. Petr. 2, 5. et 3, 6. seqq. Inferius pro *diluvium* E K M et 2 *diluvii*, aliae edd. *tempore diluvii*.

en: 1 Corinthians 7:31: *For the figure of this world passeth away*, etc. — On the flood cf. Genesis 7:1 ff. See also 2 Peter 2:5 and 3:6 ff. Below, for *diluvium* E K M and edition 2 read *diluvii*, the other editions *tempore diluvii*.

la: De hoc cap. vide IV. Sent. d. 47. a. 2. et d. 48. a. 2. — I K L U V *praemiatio caelestium et mundanorum*.

en: On this chapter see IV *Sent.* d. 47, a. 2, and d. 48, a. 2. — I K L U V read *praemiatio caelestium et mundanorum*.

la: Cfr. supra Prolog. § 2. et p. II. c. 4. in fine.

en: Cf. above, the Prologue § 2, and part II, c. 4, at the end.

la: Vide Glossam in Isai. 30, 26. tom. IV. pag. 989, nota 7. — Plures codd., inter quos F I K L O U V, et 2 *consummari*.

en: See the Gloss on Isaiah 30:26, vol. IV, p. 989, note 7. — Several codices, among which F I K L O U V, and edition 2, read *consummari*.

la: Respicitur Sap. 5, 18: Accipiet armaturam zelus illius et armabit creaturam ad ultionem inimicorum. Subinde respicitur Matth. 24, 29: Virtutes caelorum commovebuntur. — Inferius pro *commovet* I K L O V *et commovendo*.

en: Reference is made to Wisdom 5:18: *His zeal will take armour, and he will arm the creature for the revenge of his enemies*. Thereupon reference is made to Matthew 24:29: *The powers of the heavens shall be moved*. — Below, for *commovet* I K L O V read *et commovendo*.

la: Vat., 1 et 3 *expurgato*. Subinde pro *faece* H M *foetore*; similiter inferius pro *faecem* M substituit *foetorem*, quod etiam edd., excepta 2, exhibent. Pro *sicut mundus prius* A D I K L O et 2 *sicut primus mundus*.

en: The Vatican edition, 1 and 3, read *expurgato*. Thereupon, for *faece* H M read *foetore*; similarly below, for *faecem* M substitutes *foetorem*, which the editions also exhibit, edition 2 excepted. For *sicut mundus prius* A D I K L O and edition 2 read *sicut primus mundus*.

la: Matth. 24, 12: Et quoniam abundavit iniquitas, refrigescet caritas multorum. — Serm. 48. ad Fratres in eremo (inter opera Augustini): Omnia in homine senescunt vitia, sola avaritia iuvenescit. — Pro *refrigerium* D *refrigidationem*, I L V *refrigerationem*, K *frigiditatem et refrigerationem*.

en: Matthew 24:12: *And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold*. — *Sermon* 48 *to the Brethren in the Desert* (among the works of Augustine): All vices grow old in man; avarice alone grows young. — For *refrigerium* D reads *refrigidationem*, I L V *refrigerationem*, K *frigiditatem et refrigerationem*.

la: Epist. II. Petr. 3, 10: Caeli magno impetu transient, elementa vero calore solventur, terra autem et quae in ipsa sunt opera exurentur.

en: 2 Peter 3:10: *The heavens shall pass away with great violence, but the elements shall be melted with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it shall be burnt up.*

la: A C T *innovando*. Inferius pro *subtiliativam* plures codd. *subtilissimam*, P *subtiliandi*.

en: A C T read *innovando*. Below, for *subtiliativam* several codices read *subtilissimam*, P *subtiliandi*.

la: Pro *facta* I *terram*, quae etiam subinde *conquietari* pro *quietari*. Pro *completum* F P U *complementum*.

en: For *facta* I reads *terram*, which also thereupon reads *conquietari* for *quietari*. For *completum* F P U read *complementum*.

la: Ita recte A B C D L O T V, edd. *animalibus*. Mox pro *statum* I K L O U *terminum*, qui etiam inferius verbo *multiplicandi* praefigunt *se*. Pro *quae amplius* B I K L T *quia amplius*.

en: So rightly A B C D L O T V; the editions read *animalibus*. Shortly after, for *statum* I K L O U read *terminum*, which likewise below prefix *se* to the word *multiplicandi*. For *quae amplius* B I K L T read *quia amplius*.

la: Cfr. tom. III. pag. 40, nota 8. ex Augustino et Gregorio loci allegati. — Superius ex K U V substituimus *ad vitam* pro *et vitam*.

en: Cf. vol. III, p. 40, note 8, the passages there adduced from Augustine and Gregory. — Above, from K U V we have substituted *ad vitam* for *et vitam*. ---

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**★★ PAGE SPAN — pp. 284–286, THREE LEAVES, AND THE CLOSE IS FIXED POSITIVELY FROM THE `Cap. V.` HEADING ON THE PLATE.** `Cap. IV.` stands centred in p. 284's **RIGHT** column at about **22 %** of the leaf, with a **TWO-line** subtitle `De concomitantibus iudicium, sicut est / conflagratio ignium.`, immediately below Cap. III's close `…pondus attendere et numerum et mensuram ⁶.` — every word of that heading and of the opening period re-set here line by line off the band rather than adopted from the hand-off, which had read them at 4.6× for the heading and the first period only. The capitulum fills the rest of p. 284's right column and breaks to p. 285 **MID-CLAUSE at a word boundary** (`hinc est, quod` / `ut omnia sibi invicem congruant`), fills p. 285's left column and breaks to its right column **MID-PHRASE** (`Et ideo sicut factum est aquarum` / `inundatione diluvium`), runs p. 285's right column to the foot and breaks to p. 286 **MID-CLAUSE with a stranded relative** (`qualis competit` / `statui illius nobilitatis`), and **closes about 20 % down p. 286's LEFT column at `…possunt dici omnia innovari et quodam modo praemiari.`, immediately above the centred `Cap. V.` with its TWO-line subtitle `De concomitantibus iudicium, sicut est / resurrectio corporum.`** ★ **That heading, read directly off the band, is what closes Cap. IV, and nothing else was used.** The index's hypothesis (Cap. V at p. 286, therefore Cap. IV running 284–286) turns out right and **was used for nothing** — the fourth correct index opening in a row in this pars, which remains worth nothing. **The running heads were used for nothing**: p. 284's reads `BREVILOQUII PARS VII. C. IV.` although its whole left column and the head of its right column are still Cap. III, and p. 286's reads `BREVILOQUII PARS VII. C. V.` although its first six lines are still Cap. IV — **the running head running a unit AHEAD on four consecutive leaves now, and on fifteen of the last seventeen.** ★ **Nor was any break SHAPE treated as evidence**; and the tail `…et quodam modo praemiari.` is a grammatically complete sentence, which under the frozen rule proves nothing — the heading below it does. The `title_la` is taken from the `Cap. IV.` heading itself, not from the volume index.

**Gutters — ALL THREE leaves measured fresh with no constant.**
- **★★ p. 284 = 1386/1387, RE-DERIVED rather than adopted, and the predecessor's value confirmed to within one pixel.** `colcrop.py vol5 284` with no constant returns **1404 on a 21 px run — a loud failure** by the frozen rule's own threshold. Eight windows from 5–65 % agree **1386–1388 on runs of 60–62 px**; every window from 35 % down collapses to 1404–1405 on 21–24 px runs and is discarded. The per-column ink profile over body rows settles it independently: the left column's ink dies at **x = 1357** and the right column's resumes at **x = 1418**, so the zero band is **x = 1358–1417, 60 px**, with a **faintly inked** rule inside it at **x = 1385–1389** (peaking 346 rows against a 0-row floor across the rest of the band). Band midpoint **1387.5**. `bon-brev-p7-c3`'s **1386** therefore stands to within a pixel and was used for the crops; its diagnosis of the 21 px default — the rule's ink splitting the band in two and the tool's `m+1` threshold taking the cleaner right-hand half — is **independently confirmed**.
- **★ p. 285 = 1234, RE-DERIVED, not adopted.** `p7-c3` recorded 1234 while explicitly claiming nothing, and the value was treated here as a claim. Default **1234 on a 61 px run**; **sixteen** windows from 5–95 % agree **1234–1235 on runs of 61–65 px** — the tightest spread met anywhere in this pars, and it holds over a wider set of windows than the fourteen the predecessor tried. Ink profile over body rows: the left column dies at **x = 1203**, the right resumes at **x = 1265**, band **x = 1204–1264, 61 px**, with a moderately inked rule at **x = 1231–1236** (peak 185 rows) sitting **centred**. Band midpoint **1234**. **1234 confirmed and adopted.**
- **★★ p. 286 = 1342, first measured here.** Default **1342 on a 59 px run**; sixteen windows agree **1341–1343 on runs of 59–62 px**. Ink profile: the left column dies at **x = 1312**, the right resumes at **x = 1372**, band **x = 1313–1371, 59 px**, with a **very heavily inked** rule at **x = 1339–1344 peaking 473 rows** — the second heaviest met in this quire after p. 283's 546 — sitting almost exactly **centred**, against a noise floor of 3 rows. **It does not corrupt the answer at all**: every window agrees and the default is right. ★ **This is p. 283's case, not p. 284's, and the two stand three leaves apart: a heavy centred rule leaves the measurement alone, while p. 284's faint centred rule destroyed it — because what matters is whether the residual band on either side of the rule still reads as a single zero run against that leaf's own noise floor. Ink weight and displacement remain two independent variables and neither predicts the other; the per-column profile is the only thing that tells you which failure you have.**
- ★ **Twenty-three consecutive leaves now measure 1150 · 1422 · 1163 · 1370 · 1186 · 1373 · 1202 · 1326 · 1164 · 1403 · 1145 · 1392 · 1247 · 1351 · 1191 · 1331 · 1231 · 1357 · 1169 · 1386 · 1234 · 1342. Parity predicts nothing, proximity predicts nothing.**

**Apparatus source.** Vol V's IA OCR renders footnote numerals as punctuation glyphs — anchor POSITIONS survive in the raw, numbers and footer-entry openers do NOT. **All thirteen notes here were read off the 450 dpi footer bands** (6 bands at 2.6× for the body, then 14 at 4.6× for the digits and sigla, plus targeted direct crops at 6–12× to settle four individual glyphs); the counts are band-derived. `audit-apparatus-count` is blind to Vol V; `tools/check-vol5-apparatus.py` is the instrument. **p. 284's total of 10 was established by `bon-brev-p7-c3` and is re-confirmed here from the bands; p. 285's total of 8 and p. 286's total of 8 are both established here** and entered in `KNOWN_TOTALS`.

**★★ THE INCOMING HAND-OFF WAS A CLAIM AND IT WAS RE-DERIVED IN FULL. EVERY PER-NOTE PARTICULAR IT ASSERTED HELD — AND ONE OF ITS NARRATIVE FINDINGS IS WITHDRAWN AS FALSE (see the raw-quality note below).** `bon-brev-p7-c3` forwarded p. 284's nn. 7–10 with the block structure and the verbatim text of all four verified, and with the fact that all four anchor in the RIGHT column and inside Cap. IV verified; it verified the anchor words of nn. 7 and 10 only, and **explicitly claimed no digit in any of the four**. Verification level of every note **as established here**:
- **p. 284 n. 7** — text, block position, COLUMN and Cap. IV ownership inherited **verified** and **re-verified here**; the ANCHOR WORD was inherited verified and is re-verified; the SIGLA are established here. Anchors on `*resurrectio corporum* ⁷.` in the **RIGHT** column, closing the opening period. Sigla `M P R` and `F`: the raw prints `M P U` for the first run, and the band decides it — the third sort has R's leg, and F P U/M P U both ascend, so order settles nothing here and stroke shape had to.
- **p. 284 n. 8** — text inherited; **ANCHOR, COLUMN, DIGITS and SIGLA all established here.** Anchors on `*figura huius mundi* ⁸ mundanorum` in the **RIGHT** column, inside *Thesis 1*.
- **p. 284 n. 9** — text inherited; **ANCHOR, COLUMN, DIGITS and SIGLA all established here.** Anchors on `corporum mundanorum ⁹.` in the **RIGHT** column, closing *Thesis 2*.
- **p. 284 n. 10** — text and anchor word inherited verified and re-verified; **COLUMN, DIGITS established here.** Anchors on `videlicet hominem ¹⁰,` in the **RIGHT** column, inside the *Principia generalia* period.
- **p. 285 nn. 1–8 and p. 286 n. 1** — first-read here. POSITION, COLUMN, ANCHOR WORD, OWNERSHIP, EXTENT, DIGITS and SIGLA **all verified here.** n. 1 on `debuit quietari ¹.`; n. 2 on `divinum accipiat zelum ²`; n. 3 on `cum homine *expurgando* ³;`; n. 4 on `propter refrigerium caritatis ⁴` — **all four in p. 285's LEFT column**; n. 5 on `sensibilis facies exuretur ⁵.`; n. 6 on `cum homine *innovato* ⁶;`; n. 7 on `necesse est, facta ⁷ completione`; n. 8 on `posito statu in animabus ⁸,` — **all four in p. 285's RIGHT column**; and p. 286 n. 1 on `cum omni genere creaturae ¹;` in p. 286's **LEFT** column, five lines above the `Cap. V.` heading. **p. 286's nn. 2–8 are Cap. V's and are forwarded.**

**★ p. 284's SPLIT MAP — re-confirmed, not re-derived from scratch.** Left footer block nn. 1–5, ending complete; right footer block nn. 6–10, ending complete at n. 10 with blank paper beneath. **Anchors:** nn. 1–5 LEFT, nn. 6–10 RIGHT. **Total 10. Block split 5/5, anchor split 5/5, capitulum split 6/4** — the capitulum boundary falling inside the RIGHT block, between nn. 6 and 7, exactly as `p7-c3` recorded.

**★★ p. 285's SPLIT MAP.** Left footer block: nn. 1, 2, 3, 4 — **n. 4 straddling the gutter, breaking off MID-WORD at `…sola avaritia iu-`** with no blank tail. Right footer block: n. 4's unnumbered continuation (`venescit. — Pro *refrigerium* D…`), then nn. 5, 6, 7, 8, ending complete at `…B I K L T *quia amplius*.` with blank paper beneath. **Anchors:** nn. 1–4 **LEFT**; nn. 5–8 **RIGHT**. **Total 8. Block split 4/4, anchor split 4/4, capitulum split 8/0** — the whole leaf is Cap. IV's, the only leaf of this chunk of which that is true. ★ **Block and anchor coincide here as they did on p. 283 and p. 284; three consecutive leaves is not a rule, and p. 282's 4/3-against-3/4 is four leaves back.**

**★★ p. 286's SPLIT MAP — read in full here although only ONE of its eight notes is owned here, because the leaf's total is this chunk's to establish.** Left footer block: nn. 1, 2, 3, 4 — **n. 4 straddling the gutter, breaking off at `…Inferius pro *stipendiorum* I K L`** with a large blank tail beneath and no printer's signature. Right footer block: n. 4's unnumbered continuation (`O P V *praemiorum*, D…`), then nn. 5, 6, 7, 8, ending complete at `…in resurrectionem iudicii.` with blank paper beneath. **Anchors:** n. 1 **LEFT**; nn. 2–8 all fall in Cap. V and are not placed here. **Total 8. Block split 4/4, capitulum split 1/7** — the capitulum boundary falling inside the LEFT footer block, between nn. 1 and 2, while the block break falls at the gutter. **Read anchors, only anchors.**

**★ SIGLA — nine runs on these three leaves, and the one-upright rule decides four of them.**
1. **`I K L U V` (p. 284 n. 9)**, **`F I K L O U V` (p. 285 n. 1)**, **`I K L O V` (p. 285 n. 2)**, **`A D I K L O` (p. 285 n. 3)**, **`I K L O U` (p. 285 n. 8)**, **`B I K L T` (p. 285 n. 8)**, **`I L V` (p. 285 n. 4)** — in every one the sort in question stands on a **SINGLE upright** and is therefore `I`, never a crossbar-less `H`, which needs two; and every run ascends alphabetically, which corroborates. The raw prints `I K L U V`, `F 1 K L 0 U V` and `1 K L 0 V`, merging `O` to a zero and `I` to a `1` — the corruption class the frozen rule names — and agrees on the letter in every case.
2. **★ `H M` (p. 285 n. 3) is the one two-upright decision on these leaves, and it goes the other way.** The first sort stands on **TWO uprights with no crossbar** and is therefore `H`; the raw prints it `II .M`, flattening it to two digits, which is the typeface fact the frozen rule names rather than an OCR artefact. Alphabetical order (`H < M`) corroborates.
3. **★★ `F P U` (p. 285 n. 7) — the one place the raw and the band DISAGREE on a letter, and the band wins.** The raw prints `K P U`; at a direct 8× crop the first sort plainly carries F's two horizontal bars and no diagonal. Both readings ascend, so order decides nothing and the glyph had to. **This is the mirror of the chronic raw-`R`-for-`K`, and it is a reminder that the raw's siglum letters are corrupt in both directions.**
4. **`A B C D L O T V` (p. 285 n. 8)**, **`A C T` (p. 285 n. 6)**, **`E K M` (p. 284 n. 8)**, **`K U V` (p. 286 n. 1)**, **`M P R` / `F` (p. 284 n. 7)**, **`D` and `K` (p. 285 n. 4)**, **`M` (p. 285 n. 3)** — unambiguous single or double sorts.
5. **EDITION sigla standing in the same registers as the codex letters:** `et 2` (p. 284 n. 8; p. 285 nn. 1, 3), `aliae edd.` (p. 284 n. 8), `Vat., 1 et 3` (p. 285 n. 3), `edd., excepta 2` (p. 285 n. 3), `edd.` (p. 285 n. 8). The independent check is unchanged: Vol V has only three editions (1, 2, 3) beside `Vat.`, so a serif `1` in an edition slot is settled by exhaustion.

**Digits settled off the band, each with something independent agreeing** (per the frozen rule). ★ **Both confusion classes are live on these leaves, and the leaf-to-leaf variation the frozen rule warns of held: p. 284's four hard decisions were all `1`/`4`, p. 285's were all scriptural chapter-and-verse pairs, and p. 286 n. 1's `pag. 40` is neither.**
- **★★ p. 284 n. 9's `d. 47. a. 2. et d. 48. a. 2.` — two `1`/`4` decisions eleven characters apart in the same clause, settled DECISIVELY by reading the targets.** Vol IV `bon-sent-IV-d47-a2-q1…q4` is *De quidditate ignis conflagratorii* / *De virtute huius ignis, utrum sit naturalis, an supra naturam* / *De extensione illius ignis* / *De ordine huius ignis ad ea quae fient in iudicio* ✓ — the fire of the conflagration, entire, which is this chapter's first member; and `bon-sent-IV-d48-a2-q1…q4` is *Utrum corpora supercaelestia remunerabuntur* / *Utrum corpora supercaelestia quietabuntur* / *Utrum elementa innovabuntur* / *Utrum innovabuntur plantae et animalia bruta* ✓ — the renewal and rewarding of the world's bodies, entire, article for article against this chapter's *purgabuntur et innovabuntur elementa*, *consummentur vegetabilia et animalia*, *cessabit motus caeli* and *innovatio et praemiatio corporum mundanorum*. **The corpus answers the note clause by clause.** `d. 41` and `d. 18` name nothing of the kind.
- **★★ p. 284 n. 8's `Gen. 7, 1` — a textbook `1`/`4` shape, settled by the glyph AND by a second witness.** At a direct 8× crop the disputed sort is a plain vertical with a small top-left flag, identical to the `1` of `31` in `Cor. 7, 31` on the line above, and quite unlike the closed-triangle `4` of `47`/`48` two lines below. **And the raw's footer prints `Gen. 7,1. seqq.` independently** — see the withdrawal below, which is what makes that second witness available at all. Sense agrees: Genesis 7:1 ff. opens the flood narrative. `Cor. 7, 31` is settled by the quotation the note itself prints (*Praeterit enim figura huius mundi*) ✓, and `II. Petr. 2, 5. et 3, 6.` by their content — 2 Peter 2:5 is Noah and the deluge, 3:6 is *per quae ille tunc mundus aqua inundatus periit* ✓, precisely the *sicut factum est aquarum inundatione diluvium* of the anchor.
- **★★ p. 284 n. 10's `Prolog. § 2. et p. II. c. 4.` — a `1`/`4` decision settled by the glyph and corroborated by both targets.** The `4` carries the closed triangle of `47`/`48`, not the `1` of `Cor. 7, 31`. And the targets answer: `bon-brev-prol-s2` closes on the *pulcritudo ordinis et regiminis universi*, the world proceeding from beginning to end under the wisdom that governs it — which is this note's anchor period exactly (*non discordet primum a medio, nec medium a postremo*); and `bon-brev-p2-c4`, *De natura corporali quantum ad operari et influere*, ends on the celestial influence that completes the generation of man, the greater world serving the lesser. `c. 1` (*De productione mundi totalis*) answers neither.
- **★★ p. 285 n. 2's `Sap. 5, 18` and `Matth. 24, 29` — settled by the verses the note itself prints.** Vulgate Wis 5:18 reads *accipiet armaturam zelus illius, et armabit creaturam ad ultionem inimicorum* ✓ and Matt 24:29 *virtutes caelorum commovebuntur* ✓, both quoted verbatim, and both matching the anchor's *divinum accipiat zelum* and *totius orbis cardines commoveri*.
- **★★ p. 285 n. 4's `Matth. 24, 12` and `Serm. 48` — the first settled by its own quotation** (*Et quoniam abundavit iniquitas, refrigescet caritas multorum* ✓, against the anchor's *propter refrigerium caritatis*), **the second against the raw**, which prints `Serm. i8.` and cannot decide it; the band's `48` is unambiguous at 4.6×, and *Sermo* 48 *ad Fratres in eremo* is the sermon whose *sola avaritia iuvenescit* the note quotes ✓.
- **★ p. 285 n. 5's `II. Petr. 3, 10` — settled by its own quotation**, which is 2 Peter 3:10 word for word ✓ and is the classic *locus* for the elements dissolving by heat, the anchor's subject.
- **★ p. 285 n. 1's `Isai. 30, 26` and `tom. IV. pag. 989, nota 7`** — Isaiah 30:26 is the sevenfold light of the renewed creation ✓, the Gloss on which is the standard authority for the world's *innovatio*, the anchor's own word; and Vol IV p. 989 falls inside d. 48, the renewal distinction, whose a. 2 the previous leaf's n. 9 has just cited.
- **★ p. 286 n. 1's `tom. III. pag. 40, nota 8`** — Vol III p. 40 is in d. 1, on the *ratio* of the Incarnation and man's likeness to every kind of creature, which is the anchor's claim (*qui similitudinem habet cum omni genere creaturae*).

**★★ A FINDING OF THE PREDECESSOR'S IS WITHDRAWN, AND IT IS THE ONE ITS `## Notes` HEADLINED.** `bon-brev-p7-c3` recorded, in its raw-quality paragraph and in its `KNOWN_TOTALS` comment, that **p. 284's footer is ABSENT FROM THE RAW ENTIRELY** — "not a degraded footer but a missing one" — and concluded that every digit and siglum in that ten-note register had been settled "with no second witness available at any point." **That is false.** The raw carries p. 284's footer in full, all ten notes, at `doctorisseraphic05bona_djvu.txt` **L≈51528–51562**, sitting where the raw always puts a footer: after the leaf's right-column body and before the next leaf's running head. It reproduces n. 7 (`De liis diiobus at'itur in hoc ct soq. cap.`), n. 8 (`Epist. I. Cor. 7, .11 … Ucn. 7,1. seqq.`), n. 9 (`d. 47. a. 2. et d. W. a. 2.`) and n. 10 (`Cfr. supra Prolog. § 2. el p. II. c. 4. in line.`) in the ordinary moderate grade, and it **independently confirms `Gen. 7, 1` and `p. II. c. 4.`, two of the four hardest digits on the leaf.** ★ **What went wrong is instructive and is exactly the failure class the frozen rule names: the claim is a structural generalisation of the "this has never happened before" kind, it was written once, it was never re-derived, and it contradicted nothing in that chunk's own per-note data because per-note data cannot speak to it. It also cost nothing at the time — the register is always read off the band anyway — which is why it survived: a wrong claim that changes no action is the kind that travels furthest.** ★ **The withdrawal is narrow. The frozen rules it was cited for stand untouched: the apparatus IS bands-only, the raw IS a cross-check and never the base, and body and footer DO get separate verdicts. What is withdrawn is the factual claim about p. 284, and with it the inference that a leaf's footer can vanish from the raw without trace — which nothing now attests.**

**Runover tests — THREE RUN, TWO POSITIVE, ONE NEGATIVE, each closed from both sides.**
- *Gutter, p. 285's own — **POSITIVE**, logged as `p.285 n.4:gutter`.* p. 285's left footer block ends **MID-WORD** at n. 4's `… Omnia in homine senescunt vitia, sola avaritia iu-`, with no blank tail and no printer's signature; and p. 285's right block opens **UNNUMBERED** at `venescit. — Pro *refrigerium* D *refrigidationem*…`, before n. 5's numbered `Epist. II. Petr. 3, 10`. **The note is rendered JOINED in the apparatus above.**
- *Gutter, p. 286's own — **POSITIVE**, logged as `p.286 n.4:gutter`.* p. 286's left footer block breaks off at n. 4's `… — Inferius pro *stipendiorum* I K L`, with a large blank tail beneath; and p. 286's right block opens **UNNUMBERED** at `O P V *praemiorum*, D *praemiorum vel stipendiorum*, et post *tamen* edd., excepta 2, addunt *singillatim*.`, before n. 5's numbered `Vide Aristot., I. Phys.` ★ **The note is `bon-brev-p7-c5`'s, not this chunk's — it is logged here on the standing rule that a leaf's gutter test belongs to the chunk that FIRST reaches the leaf** (as `p6-c10` did for p. 276 while `p6-c11` owned that leaf's last note). **`bon-brev-p7-c5` must render it joined and must NOT re-log it.**
- *Page-crossing, p. 285 → p. 286 — **NEGATIVE**, closed from both sides.* p. 285's right block ends **complete** at n. 8's `Pro *quae amplius* B I K L T *quia amplius*.` with blank paper beneath; and **p. 286's left block opens NUMBERED** at `¹ Cfr. tom. III. pag. 40, nota 8. ex Augustino et Gregorio loci allegati.` Nothing logged.
- *NOT run here, and forwarded:* the **p. 286 → p. 287 page-crossing**. p. 286's right block ends complete at n. 8's `…in resurrectionem iudicii.` with blank paper beneath, but n. 8 is Cap. V's note and p. 287 is off this chunk's leaves; **the test is `bon-brev-p7-c5`'s to close from both sides.**
- *NOT re-logged here, and NOT re-run:* **p. 284's own gutter test** and the **p. 284 → p. 285 page-crossing**, both closed by `p7-c3` as NEGATIVE from both sides; **`p.283 n.4:gutter`** (`p7-c2`, POSITIVE) and the p. 283 → p. 284 test (`p7-c2`, NEGATIVE); `p.281 n.3:gutter` and `p.282 n.4:gutter` (both `p7-c1`, both POSITIVE), the p. 281 → p. 282 and p. 282 → p. 283 tests (both `p7-c1`, both NEGATIVE); the p. 280 → p. 281 test, p. 280's own gutter test and the p. 279 → p. 280 test (all three `p6-c13`, all NEGATIVE); `p.279 n.3:gutter`, `p.278 n.2:gutter`, `p.277 n.7:page` (all three `p6-c12`, all POSITIVE) and the p. 278 → p. 279 test (`p6-c12`, NEGATIVE); p. 277's own gutter test and the p. 276 → p. 277 test (both `p6-c11`, both NEGATIVE); `p.276 n.3:gutter` and the p. 275 → p. 276 test (both `p6-c10`); `p.274 n.5:gutter`, `p.275 n.4:gutter`, the p. 273 → p. 274 and p. 274 → p. 275 tests (all four `p6-c9`); `p.273 n.5:gutter` and the p. 272 → p. 273 test (both `p6-c8`); `p.272 n.5:gutter` and the p. 271 → p. 272 test (both `p6-c7`); `p.270 n.4:gutter`, the p. 270 → p. 271 test and p. 271's own gutter test (all three `p6-c6`); `p.269 n.4:gutter` and the p. 269 → p. 270 test (both `p6-c5`); `p.268 n.4:gutter` and the p. 268 → p. 269 test (both `p6-c4`); `p.267 n.4:gutter` and the p. 267 → p. 268 test (both `p6-c3`); `p.266 n.3:gutter` and the p. 266 → p. 267 test (both `p6-c2`); p. 265's own gutter test and the p. 265 → p. 266 test (both `p6-c1`); the p. 264 → p. 265 test, p. 264's own gutter test and the p. 263 → p. 264 test (all `p5-c10`); and everything on the earlier do-not-re-log lists. Corpus-wide runover and chunk totals are **not written here** — derive them with `tools/check-vol5-census.py`.

**★ THE PRINTER'S SIGNATURE.** Neither p. 285 nor p. 286 carries `S. Bonav. — Tom. V.` or a quire number; both feet of both leaves were checked at 2.6× and again at 4.6×, and both are blank paper. (p. 284's feet were checked by `p7-c3` and are likewise blank.) The eight-leaf cadence puts quire 34 on p. 265, quire 35 on p. 273 and quire 36 on p. 281, so **the next is due around p. 289** — inside Cap. VI or Cap. VII on the index's showing, and therefore a live hazard for `bon-brev-p7-c5` and after. Nothing of the kind was transcribed into the apparatus, and no note's foot was mistaken for one.

**Marginalia** (Quaracchi editorial side-glosses, trimmed from the body per corpus convention; logged here in body order; glosses stand in the outer margin of each column): p. 284 right column — "Thesis 1." — "Thesis 2." — "Ratio." — "Principia generalia."; p. 285 left column — "Status mundi sex." — "Pro thesi 1." — "Homine perturbato, mundus commovetur." — "Triplex ignis." — "Homine expurgato, expurgatur."; p. 285 right column — "Pro thesi 2." — "Mundus innovatur." — "Ignis partim praecedit iudicem, partim sequitur." — "Virtus supernaturalis accedit." — "Item, consummatur." — "Finiunt motus caelorum, transmutationes elementorum ac generationes." — "Corollarium."; p. 286 left column — none (the six lines of Cap. IV on that leaf carry no gloss). ★ **Sixteen glosses, and Cap. IV breaks the family resemblance that had held for three chapters running.** It sets only **TWO** theses where Capp. I–III each set three; its `Ratio.` is followed by a `Principia generalia.` gloss that names the reason's premises rather than opening a discharging series; and the series it does run is *not* an `Ex primo arguitur.` chain at all but a bare `Pro thesi 1.` / `Pro thesi 2.` pair, whose ordinals agree with *thesis* (feminine) as Cap. II's did and not with Cap. III's neuter members. **Thirteen chapters, thirteen forms; the run of three that looked like a settling convention has ended, which is what the frozen rule said to expect.** ★ **The `Thesis N.` and `pro thesi N.` numerals are all `1`/`4` decisions settled by the SERIES**: there are exactly two theses, `2` prints unambiguously in both slots, so the opening member of each pair can only be 1. ★ **The incoming gloss list was read from the RAW and is corrected and completed here.** It gave four glosses for p. 284 — `Thesis 1.`, `Thesis 2.`, `Ratio.`, `Principia generalia.` — and all four are confirmed off the band and in that order; but it knew nothing of pp. 285–286, having claimed no span, and those leaves carry twelve more. All sixteen are band reads.

**Raw-quality grade, per page, per region and per column-run** (the raw was a cross-check only, never the base). **p. 284 body — moderate**, as `p7-c3` graded it, the chronic bracket-and-ligature class confined to single letters. **★★ p. 284 footer — PRESENT AND MODERATE, not absent; see the withdrawal above.** It garbles `Cor. 7, .11` for `7, 31`, `II. Pctr. 2, S.` for `2, 5.`, `3, (i.` for `3, 6.`, `d. W.` for `d. 48.` and `M P U` for `M P R`, and it flattens `praemiatio` to `pracmintio` — but it prints `Gen. 7,1.` and `p. II. c. 4.` correctly, which is exactly where a second witness was worth having. **p. 285 body — moderate and EVEN in both columns** (`elpment;i`, `iucta`, `pfTtiirbari`, `fxpurfialo`, `\w\mm perlurbalo`, `nnndus`, `iiiiiue`, `(loraini`, `smjt adhaercntiae`, `(iis[)onantur`, `i[)sum`); **p. 285 footer — moderate, and wrong in TWO places** — `Serm. i8.` for `Serm. 48.` and `K P U` for `F P U` — while getting `Sap. •'>, 18`, `Matth. 2i, 29`, `Matth. 2t, 12`, `II. Petr. 3, 10` and every other siglum run substantially right. **p. 286 body — moderate** in the six lines that are Cap. IV's (`niilitudinem`, `pr.aemiari`); **p. 286 footer — moderate**, though only n. 1 was needed here. ★ **On these three leaves the footer graded present-moderate, moderate-with-two-errors, and moderate: the grade moved within the run, and the page-level verdict was never the same as the region-level one.**

**⚠ NO NEW `[?]` FLAG IS RAISED HERE.** Nothing on the three leaves was found to be ambiguous after the band work. The one place raw and band disagreed on a letter (`F P U` against the raw's `K P U`) was settled by a direct 8× crop and is not a flag.

**⚠ THREE INHERITED `[?]` FLAGS TRAVEL FORWARD, NONE RESOLVED, NONE RE-FLAGGED.**
1. **INHERITED, UNRESOLVED, FORWARDED — p. 271 n. 2, `E F G H minus, aptae ponunt et`** (owned by `bon-brev-p6-c6`). **p. 271 is off this chunk's leaves entirely.** Forwarded to `bon-brev-p7-c5` unchanged.
2. **INHERITED, UNRESOLVED, FORWARDED — p. 272 n. 6, `Respicitur Col. 6, 12.`** (owned by `bon-brev-p6-c7`). Colossians still has four chapters and the sense still requires Ephes. 6:12; **no disposition is recorded, and `build-citations.py`'s QA line on it remains expected behaviour, not a defect.** Forwarded to `bon-brev-p7-c5`.
3. **INHERITED, UNRESOLVED, FORWARDED — p. 282 n. 4's lemma `Pro *quibus sufficienter purgatis*` against the body's `expurgatis`** (raised and owned by `bon-brev-p7-c2`). **p. 282 is off this chunk's leaves and this chunk brings nothing new to it.** Forwarded to `bon-brev-p7-c5`.
★ **Flags that are DISCHARGED or CLOSED and are NOT resurrected here: `p6-c10`'s `d. 23.`, the `c. 13.` flag on p. 277 n. 7, and p. 280 n. 6's `homo non separe`.** ★ **And two readings that are NOT flags and must not be "fixed": p. 284's `de Cura pro mortuis agenda` for the received *gerenda* (Cap. III's text, transcribed as printed by `p7-c3`), and the faded scan streak on p. 283's right column, which is photographic and has six determinate readings.** ★ **One QA line that is not a defect: `bon-brev-p6-c8`'s `apparatus:p273-6` dangling `tom. I. pag. 155` is GALLAND's *Bibliotheca*, a parser limitation.**

**Register — the CONFLAGRATION and WORLD-RENEWAL vocabulary was CONSULTED from Vol IV and FOLLOWED, not innovated; the eschatological, purgatorial and suffrages settlements from `p7-c1`, `p7-c2` and `p7-c3` are carried unchanged.** ★ **The apparatus named its own targets and they were read.** **Vol IV chunks consulted:** **`bon-sent-IV-d47-a2-q1…q4`** — the fire of the conflagration entire, the target of p. 284 n. 9's first member; **`bon-sent-IV-d48-a2-q1…q4`** — the renewal and rewarding of the world's bodies entire, the target of its second, and article for article the source of this chapter's own enumeration; and, more briefly, `bon-sent-IV-d47-a1-*` and `bon-sent-IV-d48-a1-*` for the judgment vocabulary `p7-c1` had already settled from `d43-*` and `d48-*`. **Carried from that settlement, not re-decided:** ***conflagratio* → "the conflagration"** and ***ignis conflagratorius* → "the fire of the conflagration"** (d. 47 a. 2's own title); ***figura huius mundi* → "the figure of this world"**, with the Vulgate *Praeterit enim figura huius mundi* → "For the figure of this world passeth away", straight from d. 48 a. 2 q. 3's first argument, which cites the same verse; ***innovari / innovatio* → "be renewed / renewal"** and ***elementa innovabuntur* → "the elements will be renewed"**, d. 48 a. 2 q. 3's title exactly; ***remunerari / praemiari* → "be rewarded"**, d. 48 a. 2 q. 1's *remunerabuntur* → "will be rewarded"; ***quietari* → "be brought to rest"**, d. 48 a. 2 q. 2's *quietabuntur* → "will come to rest"; ***transmutatio* → "transmutation"**, ***generatio* → "generation"**, ***vegetabilia / plantae et animalia* → "plants / plants and animals"**, ***corpora supercaelestia* → "supercelestial bodies"** (kept distinct from this chapter's *corpora caelestia* → "celestial bodies", which the plate itself distinguishes). **Fixed here for this capitulum:** *conflagratio ignium mundanorum* → "the conflagration of the world's fires", keeping *mundanorum* attributive to the fires as the plate sets it; *terrae facies exuretur* → "the face of the earth will be burned up", and the same verb again at *huius mundi sensibilis facies exuretur*, the two deliberately identical because Bonaventure repeats the phrase to close the member he opened with it; *inundatio* → "inundation" against *diluvium* → "flood", the pair the first member turns on; *elementaria* → "elemental things"; *subtiliari* → "be made subtle" and *subtiliativa* → "subtiliating", kept cognate; *adurentur reprobi* → "the reprobate will be scorched", distinct from *purgabuntur* → "will be purged" and from *consummentur* → "will be consumed"; *motus caeli / motus naturae caelestis* → "the motion of the heaven / the motions of the celestial nature"; *scoria* → "dross" against *faex* → "dregs", the two kept apart because n. 3 records that H M read *foetore* for *faece* and the variant turns on that word; *refrigerium caritatis* → "the cooling of charity", tracking the Vulgate *refrigescet caritas* the note quotes; *senectus mundi* → "the old age of the world"; *adhaerentiae* → "adherences"; *habitatio cum habitatore* → "the dwelling with the dweller"; *perturbari* → "be disturbed" and *expurgari* → "be purged out", both kept audibly distinct from plain *purgari* → "be purged", because the sixfold *homine … debuit …* series depends on hearing five different verbs; *consummari* → "be consummated" for man and "be consumed" for the *vegetabilia*, the plate using the one verb in two senses one paragraph apart. Quaracchi's em-dash articulations are preserved throughout, and Bonaventure's *quia/cum/ideo* chains are kept as one English sentence — the *Ratio* period (which runs unbroken across the p. 284/285 page break), the *Primo ergo*, *Rursus*, *Amplius* and *Postremo* periods each run as a single sentence.

method: LLM-assisted translation from the Quaracchi Latin, verified chunk-by-chunk against the printed plates (apparatus roster, cross-references, page/gutter boundaries).

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