title: Pars 5, Cap. 5

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### Capitulum V. *De ramificatione gratiae in habitus donorum.*

De ramificatione autem gratiae in habitus *donorum* haec tenenda sunt, quod licet plurima sint dona gratiae gratis datae, et *generaliter* omnes habitus divinitus dati *dona Dei* non absurde dici possint; *specialiter* tamen et *appropriate* septem sunt dona Spiritus sancti, quae enumerat et nominat Isaias[^p257-2], loquens de flore, qui processit de radice Iesse, id est Christo, de quo dicit, quod *requiescet super eum Spiritus Domini, spiritus sapientiae et intellectus, spiritus consilii et fortitudinis, spiritus scientiae et pietatis, et replebit eum spiritus timoris Domini.* In hac autem enumeratione descendendo procedit a summo et combinando, ut simul ostendatur donorum *distinctio, connexio, origo* et *ordo*.

Ratio autem ad intelligentiam praedictorum haec est: quia, cum principium reparativum per summam liberalitatem non tantum det gratiam ad *rectificandum* contra obliquitates vitiorum per habitus *virtutum*, verum etiam ad *expediendum* contra impedimenta symptomatum[^p257-3] per habitus *donorum*; ideo plurificari debent dona gratuita, secundum quod necessarium est ad expeditionis sufficientiam. Quoniam igitur anima nostra indiget septiformiter expediri; hinc est, quod ex septiformi causa necesse est Spiritus sancti dona esse septiformia. Indiget namque expediri contra *vitiorum obliquitates*, quantum ad *vires naturales* et quoad *superadditas virtutes*, in *patiendo*, in *agendo*, in *contemplando* et *utroque modo*.

Primo igitur, propter *vitiorum obliquitates* expeditissime repellendas septem sunt dona Spiritus sancti, utpote *timor* contra superbiam; *pietas* contra invidiam; *scientia* contra iram, quae quasi est quaedam insania[^p257-4]; *fortitudo* contra accidiam, quae mentem reddit ad bona invalidam; *consilium* contra avaritiam; *intellectus* contra gulam, et *sapientia* contra luxuriam.

Secundo, propter expediendas *vires naturales* Spiritus sancti dona debent esse septem. Nam *irascibilis* indiget expediri ad bona tam in prosperis quam in adversis; in prosperis expeditur per *timorem*, in adversis per *fortitudinem*. *Concupiscibilis* indiget expediri quantum ad affectionem respectu *proximi*, et hoc fit per *pietatem*; et quantum ad affectum respectu Dei, et hoc fit per *gustum sapientiae*. *Rationalis* vero indiget expediri in veritatis *speculatione, electione* et *exsecutione*; per donum *intellectus* expeditur ad verum speculandum, per donum *consilii* ad verum eligendum, per donum *scientiae* ad electum exsequendum; per donum enim *scientiae* recte conversamur *in medio nationis pravae et perversae*[^p257-5].

Tertio, propter expedienda *septem virtutum officia* septem debent esse Spiritus sancti dona. Nam *timor* expedit ad temperantiam, timor enim carnes configit[^p257-6]; *pietas* ad veram iustitiam; *scientia* ad prudentiam; *fortitudo* ad fortitudinem seu patientiam; *consilium* ad spem; *intellectus* ad fidem; *sapientia* ad caritatem. Unde sicut « caritas est mater et consummatio omnium virtutum », sic *sapientia* donorum, ita ut vere dicat Sapiens[^p257-7]: *Venerunt mihi omnia bona pariter cum illa et innumerabilis honestas per manus illius.*

Quarto, propter expeditionem in *patiendo* conformiter ad Christum septem sunt habitus donorum. Christum autem ad patiendum movit *paterna voluntas, humana necessitas* et *virtutis strenuitas*. *Divina*[^p257-8] quidem *voluntas* movit, ut cognita per *intellectum*, ut amata per *sapientiam*, ut in reverentia habita per *timorem*. Movit etiam *nostra necessitas*, ad quam cognoscendam necessaria est *scientia*, ad quam miserandam superadditur *pietas*. Movit nihilominus *virtutis strenuitas*, ut provida in eligendo per *consilium*, ut vigorosa in perferendo per *fortitudinem*. Et sic dona debent esse septem.

Quinto, propter expeditionem in *agendo* septem dona dantur a Spiritu sancto. Nam ad actionem expeditam[^p257-9] necesse habemus expediri ad *declinandum a malo*, quod fit per *timorem*. Necesse etiam habemus expediri ad *proficiendum in bono* duplici: vel *necessitatis*, vel *supererogationis*. Circa primum expedimur per *scientiam* et *pietatem*, ita quod unum est dirigens, et aliud exsequens; circa secundum, per *consilium* dirigens et per *fortitudinem* exsequentem. Necesse etiam habemus *quiescere in optimo*, et hoc quantum ad *intellectum* veri et quantum ad *affectum* boni; primum fit per donum *intellectus*, secundum per donum *sapientiae*, in quo est quies.

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Sexto, ad expeditionem in *contemplando* dona Spiritus sancti sunt in septenario numero. Nam ad vitam hierarchicam et contemplativam necessarium est animam *purgari, illuminari* et *perfici*[^p258-1]. *Purgari* autem oportet a concupiscentia, a malitia, ab ignorantia, ab infirmitate seu impotentia; primum facit *timor*, secundum *pietas*, tertium *scientia*, quartum *fortitudo*. *Illuminari* autem indigemus in operibus reparationis et primariae conditionis; primum dat *consilium*, secundum *intellectus*. *Perfici* autem habemus per accessum ad summum, quod consistit in uno, et hoc per donum *sapientiae*; et sic arcanum contemplationis a lato consummatur quasi in cubito[^p258-2].

Septimo denique, ad expeditionem in *actione et contemplatione* septem debent esse dona Spiritus sancti. Nam *contemplativa* propter conversionem ad Trinitatem tria debet habere dona expedientia: quantum ad reverentiam maiestatis, *timorem*; quantum ad intelligentiam veritatis, *intellectum*; quantum ad saporem seu gustum bonitatis, *sapientiam*[^p258-3]. *Activa* vero, quae versatur in agendis et sustinendis, debet habere quatuor, scilicet *pietatem* ad agendum et *fortitudinem* ad sustinendum; et directiva harum duarum, scilicet *scientiam* et *consilium*. Unde quia ad expeditionem necessaria est *directio*, ideo fit donorum combinatio; et plura sunt dona ad intellectum spectantia, quia lux cognitionis vehementer expedit *ad dirigendos pedes in viam rectam*[^p258-4].

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### Chapter V. *On the branching of grace into the habits of the gifts.*

Concerning the branching of grace into the habits of the *gifts*, these things are to be held: that although the gifts of grace freely given are very many, and *generally* all habits divinely bestowed may not absurdly be called *gifts of God*; nevertheless *specially* and *by appropriation* the gifts of the Holy Spirit are seven, which Isaiah enumerates and names[^p257-2], speaking of the flower which came forth from the root of Jesse, that is, Christ, of whom he says that *there shall rest upon him the Spirit of the Lord, the spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the spirit of counsel and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge and of piety, and the spirit of the fear of the Lord shall fill him.* Now in this enumeration he proceeds descending from the highest and by combining, so that there may be shown at once the gifts' *distinction, connection, origin* and *order*.

Now the reason for the understanding of the foresaid is this: since, whereas the reparative principle by its supreme liberality gives grace not only for *setting right* against the crookednesses of the vices through the habits of the *virtues*, but also for *setting free* against the impediments of the symptoms[^p257-3] through the habits of the *gifts*; therefore the gratuitous gifts must be multiplied according as is necessary for a sufficiency of setting free. Since therefore our soul needs to be set free in a sevenfold manner, hence it is that from a sevenfold cause the gifts of the Holy Spirit must be sevenfold. For it needs to be set free against *the crookednesses of the vices*, as regards its *natural powers* and as regards the *superadded virtues*, in *suffering*, in *acting*, in *contemplating* and in *both ways*.

First, then, for the most expeditious repelling of *the crookednesses of the vices* the gifts of the Holy Spirit are seven, inasmuch as *fear* is against pride; *piety* against envy; *knowledge* against anger, which is as it were a kind of madness[^p257-4]; *fortitude* against sloth, which renders the mind unable for good things; *counsel* against avarice; *understanding* against gluttony, and *wisdom* against lust.

Second, for the setting free of the *natural powers* the gifts of the Holy Spirit must be seven. For the *irascible* power needs to be set free toward good things both in prosperity and in adversity; in prosperity it is set free through *fear*, in adversity through *fortitude*. The *concupiscible* power needs to be set free as regards its affection in respect of the *neighbor*, and this is done through *piety*; and as regards its affection in respect of God, and this is done through the *taste of wisdom*. But the *rational* power needs to be set free in the *speculation, choice* and *execution* of the truth; through the gift of *understanding* it is set free for speculating what is true, through the gift of *counsel* for choosing what is true, through the gift of *knowledge* for executing what has been chosen; for it is through the gift of *knowledge* that we converse rightly *in the midst of a depraved and perverse nation*[^p257-5].

Third, for the setting free of the *offices of the seven virtues* the gifts of the Holy Spirit must be seven. For *fear* sets free unto temperance, since fear pierces the flesh[^p257-6]; *piety* unto true justice; *knowledge* unto prudence; *fortitude* unto fortitude or patience; *counsel* unto hope; *understanding* unto faith; *wisdom* unto charity. Hence, just as « charity is the mother and the consummation of all the virtues », so is *wisdom* of the gifts, so that the Wise Man says truly[^p257-7]: *All good things came to me together with her, and innumerable honor through her hands.*

Fourth, for the setting free in *suffering* conformably to Christ the habits of the gifts are seven. Now what moved Christ to suffer was the *Father's will, human necessity* and *the strenuousness of virtue*. The *divine*[^p257-8] *will* indeed moved him, as known through *understanding*, as loved through *wisdom*, as held in reverence through *fear*. There moved him also *our necessity*, for the knowing of which *knowledge* is necessary, and for the pitying of which *piety* is superadded. There moved him nonetheless *the strenuousness of virtue*, as provident in choosing through *counsel*, as vigorous in enduring through *fortitude*. And so the gifts must be seven.

Fifth, for the setting free in *acting* seven gifts are given by the Holy Spirit. For unto expeditious action[^p257-9] we must needs be set free for *turning away from evil*, which is done through *fear*. We must needs also be set free for *advancing in good*, which is twofold: either of *necessity*, or of *supererogation*. As to the first we are set free through *knowledge* and *piety*, in such wise that the one is directing and the other executing; as to the second, through *counsel* directing and through *fortitude* executing. We must needs also *rest in what is best*, and this both as regards the *understanding* of the true and as regards the *affection* for the good; the first is done through the gift of *understanding*, the second through the gift of *wisdom*, in which there is rest.

Sixth, for the setting free in *contemplating* the gifts of the Holy Spirit are in the sevenfold number. For unto the hierarchic and contemplative life it is necessary that the soul be *purged, illumined* and *perfected*[^p258-1]. Now it must be *purged* of concupiscence, of malice, of ignorance, of infirmity or impotence; the first is effected by *fear*, the second by *piety*, the third by *knowledge*, the fourth by *fortitude*. And we need to be *illumined* in the works of reparation and of the primary founding; the first is given by *counsel*, the second by *understanding*. And we have to be *perfected* through access to the highest, which consists in one, and this through the gift of *wisdom*; and thus the secret place of contemplation, broad below, is brought to completion as it were in a cubit[^p258-2].

Seventh and last, for the setting free in *action and contemplation* the gifts of the Holy Spirit must be seven. For the *contemplative* life, on account of its turning toward the Trinity, must have three gifts setting it free: as regards reverence for the majesty, *fear*; as regards the understanding of the truth, *understanding*; as regards the savor or taste of the goodness, *wisdom*[^p258-3]. But the *active* life, which is occupied with things to be done and things to be borne, must have four, namely *piety* for doing and *fortitude* for bearing; and, as directive of these two, *knowledge* and *counsel*. Hence, because for a setting free *direction* is necessary, therefore a combining of the gifts takes place; and more of the gifts pertain to the understanding, because the light of knowledge greatly avails *to direct our feet into the right way*[^p258-4].

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la: Cap. 11, 2. et 3. — De hoc cap. vide III. Sent. d. 34. et 35.

en: Chapter 11, [verses] 2 and 3. — On this chapter see III *Sent.*, d. 34 and 35.

la: Scil. accidentium, quae morbum vitiorum sequuntur, sive sequelae morbi vitiorum. Cfr. tom. III. pag. 736, nota 7.

en: Namely, of the accidents which follow upon the disease of the vices, or the sequelae of the disease of the vices. Cf. tom. III, p. 736, note 7.

la: Iram, ut ait Cicero, IV. Disp. Tusc. c. 23, « bene Ennius initium dixit insaniae ». — Inferius pro *bona* K M O P *bonum*.

en: Anger — as Cicero says, IV *Tusculan Disputations*, c. 23 — « Ennius well called the beginning of madness ». — Below, for *bona* K M O P have *bonum*.

en: Phil. 2, 15. Cf. III *Sent.*, the Master's text, d. XXXV, c. 1.

la: Edd., 2 excepta, addunt: *unde: Confige timore tuo carnes meas* [Ps. 118, 120.].

en: The editions, 2 excepted, add: *hence: Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear* [Ps. 118, 120].

la: Sap. 7, 11. — Praecedens sententia de caritate est Hieron., Epist. 82. (alias 62.) n. 11. Vide III. Sent. lit. Magistri, d. XXIII. c. 3, ubi ipsa attribuitur Ambrosio. — Voci *donorum* edd., excepta 2, praemittunt *omnium*.

en: Wisd. 7, 11. — The preceding sentence on charity is Jerome, *Epistle* 82 (alias 62), n. 11. See III *Sent.*, the Master's text, d. XXIII, c. 3, where it is attributed to Ambrose. — Before the word *donorum* the editions, 2 excepted, prefix *omnium*.

la: Vat., 1 et 3 *Paterna*.

en: Vat., 1 and 3 have *Paterna*.

la: Edd. *expediendam*.

en: The editions have *expediendam*.

la: Cfr. supra pag. 225, nota 6. — De seq. propositione vide supra pag. 234, nota 4. in fine.

en: Cf. above, p. 225, note 6. — On the following proposition see above, p. 234, note 4, at the end.

la: Respicitur Gen. 6, 15. et 16, ubi agitur de structura arcae. Vide supra pag. 195, nota 7. — Origen., Homil. 2. in Gen. n. 5: *Ad unum autem totius constructionis numerum summa revocatur, quia unus Deus Pater, ex quo omnia* [I. Cor. 8, 6.], *et unus Dominus, et una Ecclesiae fides est, unum baptisma, unum corpus et unus spiritus* [Eph. 4, 4. seq.], *et ad unum perfectionis Dei finem cuncta festinant.* Hugo a S. Vict., I. Allegor. in vetus testam. c. 13: *Arca deorsum lata erat, quia multi sunt vocati; sursum stricta, quia pauci electi… Deorsum lata, quia multi sunt activi; sursum stricta, quia pauci contemplativi. Deorsum lata, quia multi imperfecti; sursum stricta, quia pauci perfecti.* Cfr. Gregor., II. Homil. in Ezech. homil. 4. n. 16. seq. — Pro *a lato*, quod I K L M O V omittunt, 1 perperam *ab alto*, quae etiam cum Vat. et 3 *cubico* pro *cubito* (contra Vulgatam).

en: Reference is made to Gen. 6, 15 and 16, where the structure of the ark is treated. See above, p. 195, note 7. — Origen, *Homily* 2 *on Genesis*, n. 5: *But the sum of the whole construction is brought back to one number, because there is one God the Father, from whom are all things* [I Cor. 8, 6], *and one Lord, and one faith of the Church, one baptism, one body and one Spirit* [Eph. 4, 4 and following], *and all things hasten toward the one end of God's perfection.* Hugh of St. Victor, I *Allegories on the Old Testament*, c. 13: *The ark was broad below, because many are called; narrow above, because few are chosen… Broad below, because many are active; narrow above, because few are contemplative. Broad below, because many are imperfect; narrow above, because few are perfect.* Cf. Gregory, II *Homilies on Ezekiel*, homily 4, n. 16 and following. — For *a lato*, which I K L M O V omit, edition 1 wrongly has *ab alto*, and it also, with Vat. and 3, has *cubico* for *cubito* (against the Vulgate).

la: Cfr. supra pag. 210, nota 5. — Substituimus ex B *saporem seu* (quod P omittit) pro pristina, sed incongrua lectione *sapientiam sive*.

en: Cf. above, p. 210, note 5. — We have substituted from B *saporem seu* (which P omits) for the earlier but incongruous reading *sapientiam sive*.

la: Luc. 1, 79: *Ad dirigendos pedes nostros* [ita et I K] *in viam pacis* [ita et P, edd. *rectam et pacis*]. — Superius posuimus *harum duarum* fide plurium codd., inter quos L M, pro *horum duorum*; ac subinde ex A Q *plura* pro *plurima*.

en: Luke 1, 79: *To direct our feet* [so also I K] *into the way of peace* [so also P; the editions have *rectam et pacis*]. — Above we have put *harum duarum* on the faith of several codices, among them L M, for *horum duorum*; and thereupon, from A Q, *plura* for *plurima*. ---

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**★★ PAGE SPAN — pp. 257–258, BOTH ENDS FIXED POSITIVELY FROM A HEADING ON THE BAND.** `Cap. V. / De ramificatione gratiae in habitus donorum.` stands **about two-fifths down p. 257's LEFT column**, immediately below Cap. IV's closing line (`ad informationem et gratificationem habituum diver-` / `sorum¹.`), exactly where `bon-brev-p5-c4` placed it, and its subtitle takes **ONE line**. Cap. V fills the rest of p. 257's left column to `…in *patiendo*, in *agendo*, in *contemplando* et *utroque modo*.`; crosses p. 257's gutter **AT A PARAGRAPH BOUNDARY** — the *Ratio* closes complete at the column foot and the *Primo igitur* paragraph opens the right column; fills p. 257's right column entire to `…necesse habemus expediri ad *declinandum*`; breaks across the leaf **INSIDE AN ITALICISED PHRASE, SPLITTING A GERUND FROM THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE IT GOVERNS** (`ad *declinandum*` / `*a malo*`, the italic *declinandum a malo* cut in half by the leaf); and closes at the foot of **p. 258's LEFT column** at `…expedit *ad dirigendos pedes in viam rectam*⁴.` **★ The end is fixed POSITIVELY from the `Cap. VI. / De ramificatione gratiae in habitus beatitudinum, / et per consequens fructuum et sensuum.` heading standing at the very TOP of p. 258's RIGHT column**, with Cap. VI's own text following it down that column. **Cap. V touches no right column on p. 258 at all.** No claim here rests on white space (and p. 258's left column *does* end well above its foot, with clear paper below it, because the huge n. 2 pushes the register upward — precisely the shape that wrote `bon-brev-p2-c4` short), nor on a grammatically complete tail, nor on a running head. ★ **The index's hypothesis that Cap. VI opens on p. 258 is CONFIRMED on the band — the FOURTH consecutive opening page in Pars V to be right — and it remains a hypothesis for every capitulum after this one.** ★ **The hand-off's prediction that Cap. VI's title, the longest in the pars, would take a THREE-line subtitle is WRONG: the plate sets it in TWO, centred and indented. A predicted layout is not a measured one.**

**★★ THE RUNNING HEAD IS ONE UNIT AHEAD FOR THE TENTH CONSECUTIVE LEAF — AND p. 258 IS THE FIRST IN THE RUN THAT IS ACCIDENTALLY RIGHT.** p. 257's head reads **`BREVILOQUII PARS V. C. V.`** on a page whose first eighteen left-column lines are still Cap. IV (`p5-c4` recorded it as the ninth). p. 258's head reads **`BREVILOQUII PARS V. C. VI.`** on a page whose entire LEFT column is Cap. V — so the head again names the unit that has not yet begun when the page is read from its first line, and the run is unbroken at TEN. ★ **What is new is that p. 258's head is nonetheless a true statement about the page, because Cap. VI really does begin on it, at the top of the right column. The head is right and worthless at the same time: it would have read exactly the same had Cap. VI never begun here, as p. 257's did.** Both heads were read on the bands. **Neither head confirmed anything that the two `Cap. N.` headings had not already settled, and neither could have.**

**★ THE PAGE MARKER SITS AT THE NEAREST PARAGRAPH BOUNDARY BELOW THE BREAK — FIFTEENTH CONSECUTIVE OCCURRENCE, AND NOT TERMINAL THIS TIME.** The p. 257/258 leaf break falls inside the *Quinto* paragraph, whose remainder occupies p. 258's first ten lines; the nearest paragraph boundary below the break is the head of the *Sexto* paragraph, so `<!-- page 258 -->` stands there, and **p. 258's nn. 1 and 2 both anchor below their own page marker while the *Quinto* paragraph's p. 258 remainder carries no anchor at all.** The two preceding chunks both produced terminal markers; this one does not, so the shape has not repeated a third time.

**Gutters.** **p. 257 = 1200, RE-DERIVED here from the band rather than adopted from `bon-brev-p5-c4`.** `colcrop.py vol5 257` reproduces the default to the pixel (**`split_x=1199, low-ink run 46 px`**, unflagged and the narrowest run on the last five leaves, so suspect on width alone). The per-column ink profile was printed, per the standing rule, and it is what settles the value: over the body rows (45–92 %) the blank gutter runs **x = 1177–1223** (left-column ink falls to 2 at x = 1177; right-column ink resumes at 6 on x = 1223 and 19 on x = 1225) with an **ink island standing INSIDE it at x = 1191–1209**, peaking at **245 rows at x = 1197**, ~3 px LEFT of the band's centre. Band midpoint **1200**. Over the upper rows (15–45 %) the blank band runs **x = 1189–1243** with its island at x = 1210–1218, midpoint 1216 — the ~16 px LEFTWARD skew `p5-c4` measured, reproduced independently here. **`p5-c4`'s derivation holds in every particular, and it was re-derived, not adopted.** — **p. 258 was extracted and auto-measured FRESH.** `colcrop.py vol5 258` returned **`split_x=1412, low-ink run 46 px`** — unflagged, and again far below the 58–64 px sound band, so treated as suspect on width. Re-profiled over **eighteen** row windows: 45–92 % **1412/46** · 50–85 % **1415/52** · 50–92 % **1415/52** · 55–80 % **1416/53** · 60–90 % **1416/53** · 60–92 % **1416/53** · 65–92 % **1412/61** · 45–80 % **1412/46** · 35–75 % **1412/46** · 30–70 % **1412/46** · 40–65 % **1412/46** · 20–60 % **1407/55** · 25–55 % **1407/57** · 15–85 % **1412/45** · 20–80 % **1412/45** · 15–45 % **1405/59** · 10–45 % **1405/59** · 12–40 % **1405/59**. **The windows do not fork; they DRIFT MONOTONICALLY from 1405 at the page's top to 1416 in its body — skew again, RIGHTWARD this time, by ~11 px, the reverse of p. 257's direction on the facing leaf.** ★ **The profile was printed even so.** Over the body rows the blank band runs **x = 1382–1442** (left-column ink falls from 25 at x = 1380 to 2 at x = 1382; right-column ink resumes at 18 on x = 1439 and 109 on x = 1443) with an **ink island INSIDE it at x = 1405–1414**, peaking at **601 rows at x = 1413** against 1 on its right shoulder — **the TENTH leaf out of eleven to carry the in-gutter obstruction** (pp. 248–251, 253–258). Band midpoint **1412**, island peak 1413: **the island sits ~1 px RIGHT of centre**, the p. 250/251/253 CENTRED shape rather than p. 257's off-centre one, which is why p. 258's windows drift rather than fork. Over the upper rows (15–45 %) the band runs **x = 1376–1436** with its island at x = 1402–1407 peaking at 1079 rows at x = 1405, midpoint 1406 — so both column edges migrate **~6 px to the RIGHT** from the top of the page to its foot. ★ **The default, the band midpoint and two of the seven body windows all give 1412, and the remaining five stand 3–4 px off it; the body windows AGREE within 4 px and the midpoint does not dissent, so the two tests do not have to be traded off. Adopted 1200 and 1412.** Series now 1194 · 1337 · 1211 · 1341 · 1210 · 1331 · 1209 · 1338 · 1200 · 1338 · 1228 · 1361 · 1186 · 1367 · 1201 · 1345 · 1209 · 1391 · 1182 · 1390 · 1160 · 1403 · 1250 · 1357 · 1206 · 1355 · **1200** · **1412**. ★ **p. 258 (even) = 1412 is the WIDEST gutter measured anywhere in Pars V, 9 px past p. 252's old maximum, and it stands 212 px from p. 257's — a wider adjacent gap than the 155 px `p5-c4` called the widest one leaf ago. The spread keeps opening; nothing about it is converging. Measure every page.**

**Apparatus (12 entries), ownership from anchors on the bands.** This chunk owns **p. 257 nn. 2–9** (inherited, every claim re-derived) and **p. 258 nn. 1–4** (first-read here). Every anchor below was read on the band at 450 dpi under direct high-factor zoom.
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- p. 258 n. **2** on `consummatur quasi in cubito`² — **LEFT** column, closing the *Sexta* paragraph; entry in the **LEFT** block, which it very nearly fills on its own.
- p. 258 n. **3** on `saporem seu gustum bonitatis, *sapientiam*`³ — **LEFT** column, in the *Septima* paragraph's contemplative triad; entry in the **RIGHT** block.
- p. 258 n. **4** on `*ad dirigendos pedes in viam rectam*`⁴ — **LEFT** column, on the very LAST line of Cap. V; entry in the **RIGHT** block.

**★★ WHAT THIS CHUNK INHERITED — p. 257 nn. 2–9, AND THE THREE UNREAD-REGION ANCHORS ARE NOW READ.** `bon-brev-p5-c4` forwarded eight notes: ownership, column and position verified for nn. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9, and for nn. 6, 7 and 8 **ownership and block column only, with the anchor positions declared an UNREAD REGION and explicitly not inferred.** All of it was re-derived from the bands here rather than adopted. **Every ownership held; every verified column held; every verified position held; and the text of n. 9 (`Edd. expediendam.`) held verbatim, with the body two lines above it reading `expeditam` exactly as forwarded.** ★ **And the three unread anchors DO fall where the block column implied — all three in the RIGHT column, in the stretch between `perversae⁵` and the *Quinta* paragraph: n. 6 on `carnes configit`, n. 7 on `dicat Sapiens`, n. 8 on `*Divina*`.** ★ **That is the point worth keeping: the block column was RIGHT about the column, and it was right for a reason that does not generalise — p. 257 is a page whose left block overruns the anchor line by two notes, so on this very page a block column implied the WRONG column for nn. 4 and 5, which print left and anchor right. The predecessor did not infer, and it was right not to: the same page furnishes both a case where the inference would have held and two where it would have failed.** ★ **Running score: forwarded OWNERSHIP has now held THIRTEEN times in THIRTEEN; and a hand-off that declares an unread region rather than guessing has now been vindicated once — its silence cost nothing, where a guess would have had a 5-in-9 chance of being wrong on this page.**

**★ WHAT THIS CHUNK FORWARDS — p. 258 nn. 5–7, THREE NOTES, TO `bon-brev-p5-c6`.** **p. 258's register is SEVEN** (left block nn. 1–2, right block nn. 3–7), band-derived here and newly fed to `check-vol5-apparatus.py`. Only nn. 1–4 anchor in Cap. V. For each forwarded note, what was verified is named:
- n. **5** — **OWNERSHIP, COLUMN and POSITION all verified.** Anchor on `quas Salvator enumerat in sermone de monte`⁵ in Cap. VI's opening paragraph, **RIGHT** column, four lines below the chapter subtitle, beside the `Septem beatitudines.` gloss; entry printed in the **RIGHT** block. Its text is `Matth. 5, 3. seqq. — Fructus Spiritus S. enumerantur Gal. 5, 22. seq. — Quae proponuntur in hoc cap. tanguntur III. Sent. d. 34. p. 1. a. 1. q. 1. in fine corp. et a. 2. q. 1. in fine corp. Quoad numerum beatitudinum (*septem*, non *octo*) cfr. ibid. d. 36. q. 1. scholion.`
- n. **6** — **OWNERSHIP, COLUMN and POSITION all verified.** Anchor on `aut ex languore concupiscentiae`⁶ in the *Prima ratio ex triplici radice* paragraph, **RIGHT** column, beside the `Subdistinctio.` gloss; entry in the **RIGHT** block. Its text is `Cfr. supra p. III. c. 8.` ★ **Read that `p. III.` as a ROMAN — it is the Breviloquium's own Pars III, not a page — and note that it is the same slot in which p. 256 n. 5 set `p. I.` and the raw gave `p. 1.`**
- n. **7** — **OWNERSHIP, COLUMN and POSITION all verified.** Anchor on `*universae viae Domini misericordia et veritas*`⁷ on the LAST line of p. 258's right column; entry in the **RIGHT** block. Its text is `Psalm. 24, 10. — Superius pro *concupiscentialis* plures codd. vel *concupiscentis*, vel *concupiscentiae*, vel cum 2 *concupiscibilis*. Terminus *concupiscentialis* et adverbium occurrit apud Augustin.; cfr. Magister II. Sent. d. XXX. c. 7.` ★ **Its `Superius` lemma corroborates itself against the body: `languoris concupiscentialis` really does stand seven lines above n. 7's anchor, inside n. 6's own sentence.**

**Runover findings — THREE NEGATIVES, ALL THREE OWED, ALL THREE CLOSED FROM BOTH SIDES, ALL THREE CARRIED BY THE SINGLE LEDGER LINE `p5-c5 -`.**
- *Gutter-crossing within p. 257 — **NEGATIVE**, re-derived here and NOT adopted from `p5-c4`, which ran it deliberately without logging it.* p. 257's left block carries nn. 1–5 and ends at n. 5 (`⁵ Phil. 2, 15. Cfr. III. Sent. lit. Magistri, d. XXXV. c. 1.`), **with the printer's signature on the line below it**; p. 257's right block was read from its first character at high zoom and opens **NUMBERED: `⁶ Edd., 2 excepta, addunt: unde: Confige timore tuo carnes meas [Ps. 118, 120.].`** ★ **The completeness of n. 5 is worth nothing here and neither is the signature: the negative rests entirely on the numeral at the head of the right block.** **LOGGED as a negative, as owed** — `p5-c4` ran this test and deliberately left the line to this chunk, and the line is now written.
- *Page-crossing, p. 257 → p. 258 — **NEGATIVE**, closed from both sides, as owed.* p. 257's right block ends complete at n. 9 (`⁹ Edd. expediendam.`) with the quire signature `33` below it and clear paper below that, and **p. 258's left footer block opens NUMBERED: `¹ Cfr. supra pag. 225, nota 6.`** Logged as a negative.
- *Gutter-crossing within p. 258 — **NEGATIVE**, and this chunk's to run: `p5-c6` owns none of p. 258's left block.* p. 258's left block ends complete at n. 2 (`…quae etiam cum Vat. et 3 *cubico* pro *cubito* (contra Vulgatam).`), and p. 258's right block opens **NUMBERED: `³ Cfr. supra pag. 210, nota 5.`** Logged as a negative.
- *NOT re-logged here:* p. 256's own gutter test and the p. 256 → p. 257 page-crossing test (both `p5-c4`); `p.255 n.8:gutter` and the p. 254 → p. 255 and p. 255 → p. 256 tests (all three `p5-c3`); `p.253 n.9:page` and `p.254 n.3:gutter` (both `p5-c2`); the p. 252 → p. 253 test and p. 253's own gutter test (both `p5-c1`).

**★★ THE PRINTER'S SIGNATURE AND THE QUIRE SIGNATURE WERE BOTH RE-READ AND NEITHER IS AN ENTRY.** **`S. Bonav. — Tom. V.` stands on its own line at the foot of p. 257's LEFT footer block, immediately below n. 5, unnumbered and unindented; `33` stands at the foot of p. 257's RIGHT block, below n. 9.** Counting **numerals**, p. 257's register is **NINE**; counting **block lines**, a reader would get ten, and — because the left block already overruns the anchor line by two — would place the Cap. IV / Cap. V boundary four notes too low. **p. 258 carries neither mark.** The next signature is due around p. 265.

**★★ p. 258's FOOTER IS A NINETEENTH CONFIGURATION AND THE MIRROR OF p. 245's — AND IT IS THE FIRST PAGE IN PARS V ON WHICH THE CAPITULUM LINE AND THE ANCHOR LINE COINCIDE WHILE THE BLOCK LINE DISSENTS BY TWO.** p. 258's **anchors** divide **4 / 3** (nn. 1–4 left, nn. 5–7 right); its **blocks** divide **2 / 5**; its **capitulum** line falls between nn. 4 and 5, **exactly on the anchor line**. So the block break stands **TWO NOTES ABOVE** both — the mirror of p. 253/255/257's overrun family, in which the block break stood two notes *below*. ★ **The cause is visible and is worth stating because it is not structural at all: n. 2 is a single entry running fourteen printed lines (Origen, then Hugh of St Victor at length, then Gregory, then a four-clause variant apparatus), and it fills the left block on its own. Block extent is a function of entry LENGTH; anchor distribution is a function of the text. They are independent, and this page is the clearest demonstration of it in Pars V.** ★ **And note the contrast with the facing leaf, which is the whole lesson in one opening: p. 257's left block OVERRUNS by two and p. 258's UNDERRUNS by two, on two consecutive pages of one capitulum.**

**Digits and sigla settled off the bands** (450 dpi; every upright compared against a same-line or same-entry contrast before being recorded). **This leaf-pair's register is dominated by the `1`/`4` class, which fails in the raw eleven times across the two pages, and by a `3`/`5` pair; the `II`/`H` flattening does not occur at all, because no `H` is set.**
- **★★ `Cap. 11, 2. et 3.` (p. 257 n. 2) — TWO flagged arabic `1`s side by side, and the raw prints them correctly while shattering the leaf's other `1`s.** On the band both carry the angled top flag, closed stem and no lower serif of the arabic `1`, against the same entry's slab-serifed `III. Sent.` six words later. ★ **Sense settles it twice over: Isaias 11, 2–3 IS the sevenfold enumeration the anchor names, quoted verbatim in the body two lines above; and III *Sent.* d. 34 and d. 35 are the distinctions *de donis* and *de donis in Christo*, which is what the note claims for them.** ★ **The `35` is the `3`/`5` class in its cleanest form on this quire: `3` prints double-bowled and `5` prints as a flat top bar over a single lower bowl, and the two stand side by side inside one number.**
- **★★ `Phil. 2, 15.` (p. 257 n. 5) — a flagged arabic `1` beside a `5`, and the raw gives `2, 1.5.`, splitting the number rather than misreading it.** On the band the `1` is flagged and the `5` flat-barred. ★ **Sense settles it: Phil. 2, 15 is *in medio nationis pravae et perversae*, which is the anchor, quoted word for word.**
- **★★ `[Ps. 118, 120.]` (p. 257 n. 6) — FIVE flagged `1`s inside one bracketed citation, the densest `1` cluster in Pars V.** Every one carries the angled flag; the entry's own `2 excepta` two lines earlier supplies the arabic contrast and there is no roman anywhere in the entry. ★ **Sense settles it: Ps. 118, 120 is *Confige timore tuo carnes meas*, which the note quotes in full, and the body's anchor is `timor enim carnes configit`.**
- **★★ `Sap. 7, 11.` and `n. 11.` (p. 257 n. 7) — the same class twice in one entry, against THREE roman numerals for contrast (`III. Sent.`, `d. XXIII.`, and the `II` inside neither).** The raw gives `Sap. 7, H.` for the first — **the `11`→`H` flattening read as a LETTER this time, not as a number, which is the reverse of p. 256's `B 11` for `B H`** — and `n. 1 1.` for the second. On the band both are two flagged arabic uprights. ★ **Sense settles the first: Sap. 7, 11 is *Venerunt mihi omnia bona pariter cum illa*, quoted in the body immediately after the anchor.**
- **★ `Epist. 82. (alias 62.)` and `d. XXIII. c. 3` (p. 257 n. 7) — read clean, each against a same-line contrast.** The `8` and the `6` are unambiguous; `XXIII` is roman and `c. 3` a double-bowled arabic `3`.
- **★★ `Vat., 1 et 3` (p. 257 n. 8) — a standalone edition `1` beside an edition `3`, in a set that runs 1–3.** The `1` is flagged; `Vat.` beside it is the fourth witness of the same kind. **A numeral in the witness slot is always an EDITION here, and 1 and 3 are both real, so nothing about this entry is in doubt.** ★ **Note that the same entry-shape one page on (`p. 258 n. 2`: `1 perperam ab alto, quae etiam cum Vat. et 3`) sets the identical three witnesses, which is the leaf-pair's own contrast set.**
- **★★ `Gen. 6, 15. et 16` and `pag. 195, nota 7.` (p. 258 n. 2) — FOUR flagged `1`s in two adjacent sentences, and the raw destroys none of them.** ★ **Sense settles the first decisively: Gen. 6, 15–16 gives the ark's dimensions and the clause *consummabis ... in cubito*, which is precisely the anchor `consummatur quasi in cubito` — the note and the body meet on the word.**
- **★★ `c. 13` (p. 258 n. 2, Hugh of St Victor) and `homil. 4. n. 16. seq.` (Gregory) — the `1`/`4` class in both directions inside ONE entry.** On the band `13` opens with a flagged `1` and closes with a double-bowled `3`; `4` is open-topped with a diagonal meeting a horizontal bar; `16` sets a flagged `1` against a `6` with a closed lower bowl. **The two sorts stand nine words apart and are the entry's own contrast set.**
- **★★ `I K L M O V` (p. 258 n. 2), `I K` and `L M` and `A Q` (p. 258 n. 4) — SINGLE UPRIGHTS INSIDE CODEX RUNS, READ AS `I` ON THE STROKE COUNT AND THE ALPHABET.** **One upright is never `H`**; every run is strictly alphabetical and no other reading is; and `omittunt <witnesses>` / `ex A Q` require witnesses. ★ **Note that p. 258 n. 2 then sets a standalone edition `1` (`1 perperam ab alto`) eleven words after the codex `I` of `I K L M O V` — the edition siglum and the codex siglum as different sorts inside one entry, the p. 255 n. 9 and p. 256 n. 6 shape for the third time in four leaves. The raw merges them, printing `IKLMOV` closed up and then `I pciperam`.**
- **★★ `pag. 210, nota 5.` (p. 258 n. 3) — the finest sense-check available anywhere in this volume, because the note points at a chunk this corpus has already built.** On the band `210` sets a flagged `1` between two `0`s and `5` is flat-barred. ★ **`bon-brev-p1-c1`'s p. 210 n. 5 reads *Sapientia enim idem esse dicitur ac sapida scientia*, and p. 258 n. 3's anchor is `saporem seu gustum bonitatis, sapientiam` — the note cites the very entry that explains the word it is emending. Two chunks, forty-eight printed pages apart, corroborate each other exactly.**
- **★ `Luc. 1, 79` (p. 258 n. 4), `Cfr. supra pag. 225, nota 6.` and `pag. 234, nota 4. in fine.` (p. 258 n. 1), `tom. III. pag. 736, nota 7.` (p. 257 n. 3), `IV. Disp. Tusc. c. 23` (p. 257 n. 4) — all read clean, each against a same-line contrast.** ★ **Sense checks pass on every citation that has one.** Luke 1, 79 IS *ad dirigendos pedes nostros in viam pacis*, and the note exists precisely because the body reads `in viam rectam` instead. Cicero *Tusc.* IV, c. 23 is where anger is called *initium insaniae* on Ennius' authority, which is the anchor's `quae quasi est quaedam insania`. **Every digit that could be tested was settled twice — by the glyph and by the text it names.**

**Preserved as printed, not harmonised.**
- **★★ THE BODY AND THE APPARATUS DIVERGE TWICE, AND NEITHER DIVERGENCE WAS CLOSED.** (i) The body reads `expedit *ad dirigendos pedes in viam rectam*` where n. 4 gives the Vulgate's *in viam pacis* and records that the editions print *rectam et pacis*; **the body's `rectam` stands as printed.** (ii) The body reads `Nam ad actionem expeditam` where n. 9 records `Edd. expediendam`; **the body's `expeditam` stands.** ★ **And a third, subtler one: the body's *Quarta* paragraph names the triad `*paterna voluntas*` and then resumes it as `*Divina*⁸ quidem *voluntas*` — the plate changing the adjective four lines on — with n. 8 recording that Vat., 1 and 3 read *Paterna* there. The plate's inconsistency IS the reading, and it was not smoothed.**
- **★★ THE PLATE'S ITALIC WAS FOLLOWED PER PARAGRAPH AND NOT REGULARISED, AND THIS CAPITULUM'S PRINCIPLE IS THE OPPOSITE OF CAP. IV's IN THE ONE PLACE THEY OVERLAP.** ★ **(i) The seven gifts are set in FULL ITALIC at their first naming, inside the Isaias quotation** (`*spiritus sapientiae et intellectus…*`), where Cap. IV left the seven virtues entirely roman at theirs. ★ **(ii) Thereafter each gift is italicised ONE BY ONE as it is assigned** (`*timor* contra superbiam; *pietas* contra invidiam…`, `*timor* expedit ad temperantiam…`) — which is Cap. IV's second principle, so the two capitula converge on the assignment and diverge on the naming. ★ **(iii) But the assignment italic is NOT applied to the answering term: `*timor* contra superbiam` leaves `superbiam` roman through all seven members, and `*pietas* ad veram iustitiam` leaves `iustitiam` roman through all seven — where Cap. IV's twin enumeration italicised BOTH sides.** ★ **(iv) And the *Quinta*/*Sexta*/*Septima* paragraphs italicise the ACTS and not the gifts** (`ad *declinandum a malo*`, `ad *proficiendum in bono*`, `*quiescere in optimo*`, `*purgari, illuminari* et *perfici*`) **while the gifts that effect them go roman in the same clause** (`primum facit *timor*` keeps the gift italic, but `primum dat *consilium*, secundum *intellectus*` and `primum fit per donum *intellectus*` do not agree with each other about the noun `donum`). **Four principles inside one capitulum, against Cap. IV's three inside five paragraphs. The plate's italic is not a rule you may complete.**
- **★★ THE `Ratio autem ad intelligentiam praedictorum haec est: quia` COLON — EIGHTEENTH consecutive attestation** (Pars III capp. IX–XI, Pars IV capp. I–X, Pars V capp. I–V). It opens here on a **concessive `cum … non tantum … verum etiam` period**, not on Cap. IV's `sicut… sic` comparison and not on the plain causal `cum` of capp. I–III — **a third shape in five capitula of this pars.** ★ **And note that Cap. VI, visible on p. 258's right column, opens its own *Ratio* with the same words and a plain causal `cum` again, so the shape does not run in blocks.**
- **★★ THE EM-DASH ARTICULATION COLLAPSES TO ZERO — THE FOURTEENTH DISTINCT DISTRIBUTION AND THE FIRST EMPTY ONE.** **Cap. V carries NO em-dash paragraph articulation anywhere in its nine paragraphs**, where Cap. III carried seven doing three jobs and Cap. IV four doing one. ★ **The articulation is instead carried entirely by the ordinal openers `Primo igitur… Secundo… Tertio… Quarto… Quinto… Sexto… Septimo denique`, one per paragraph, each answered by a numbered marginal gloss.** **A reader counting members from dashes would find NONE in a capitulum whose central division is of seven.** Transcribed, never regularised, and never counted from members.
- **`Deus`, `Dei`, `Deo`, `Domini`, `Christo`, `Christum`, `Spiritus sancti`, `Trinitatem`, `Isaias`, `Iesse`, `Salvator`, `Sapiens`, `Cicero`, `Ennius`, `Hieron.`, `Ambrosio`, `Origen.`, `Gregor.`, `Hugo a S. Vict.`, `Augustin.`, `Sent.`, `Vulgatam` are capitalised as printed**, and `gratia`, `donum`, `habitus`, `virtus`, `timor`, `pietas`, `scientia`, `fortitudo`, `consilium`, `intellectus`, `sapientia` are not; the English follows. `Iesse` and `iustitiam` keep the plate's `I`/`i` for consonantal *J*.

**Enumerations preserved exactly.** The **SEVENFOLD** naming of the gifts from Isaias 11, 2–3 (*sapientia, intellectus, consilium, fortitudo, scientia, pietas, timor Domini*), given **descending from the highest and in combined pairs**, which the text itself flags as showing four things at once — the gifts' **FOURFOLD** *distinctio, connexio, origo* and *ordo*. Then the **SEVENFOLD** *causa expeditionis* (`Primo… Septimo denique`), each cause independently yielding the number seven, and each with its own internal division: the first against the **SEVEN** capital vices one-for-one; the second by the **THREE** powers (*irascibilis, concupiscibilis, rationalis*) split 2 + 2 + 3; the third against the **SEVEN** virtues one-for-one; the fourth by the **THREE** movers of Christ's passion (*paterna voluntas, humana necessitas, virtutis strenuitas*) split 3 + 2 + 2; the fifth by the **THREE** stages *declinare a malo · proficere in bono · quiescere in optimo* split 1 + (2 + 2) + 2; the sixth by the **THREE** hierarchic acts *purgari · illuminari · perfici* split 4 + 2 + 1; the seventh by contemplation's **THREE** and action's **FOUR**. ★ **Seven independent partitions of one seven, and no two of them partition it the same way — 1+1+1+1+1+1+1, 2+2+3, 1+1+1+1+1+1+1, 3+2+2, 1+4+2, 4+2+1, 3+4. The text never says they agree, and they do not; each is a separate proof that the number must be seven.** ★ **This is why the marginal glosses matter here and did not in Cap. IV: they number the seven causes and nothing else.**

**Marginalia** (Quaracchi editorial side-glosses, trimmed from the body per corpus convention; logged here in body order). p. 257 L — "Septem dona." · "Ostenduntur quatuor." · "Ratio." · "Septiformis causa expeditionis." p. 257 R — "Causa prima." · "Secunda." · "Tertia." · "Quarta." · "Quinta." p. 258 L — "Sexta." · "Septima." **Eleven glosses across nine paragraphs, and a FIFTEENTH distinct form — a STRICTLY NUMBERED ORDINAL SERIES running the whole length of the capitulum, four topical glosses standing above it as a preamble.** ★ **`Causa prima.` names the series and the six that follow drop the noun, so the series is `Causa prima. / Secunda. / Tertia. / Quarta. / Quinta. / Sexta. / Septima.` — an abbreviation that only reads as a series if the first gloss is in view, and the first gloss is at the head of a DIFFERENT column from four of its members and a different PAGE from two.** ★ **So this gloss series IS a structural witness, and a strong one — it maps one-for-one onto the seven `Primo… Septimo` openers and onto nothing else — where Cap. IV's was topical and paired across the gutter and Cap. III's was a `Thesis N.` series buried under six unnumbered glosses. FOUR consecutive capitula, FOUR different gloss grammars.** **Transcribe the glosses as printed; regularise nothing; never infer a capitulum's gloss form from its neighbour's.**

**No `[?]` flags.** Five readings could have carried one — the raw's `Sap. 7, H.` for `Sap. 7, 11.`, its `n. 1 1.` for `n. 11.`, its `2, 1.5.` for `2, 15.`, its `IKLMOV` closed up against the following edition `1`, and its `C, 15.` for `Gen. 6, 15.` — and each is settled positively on the band, by the flag-versus-slab-serif contrast, by the upright count, by the alphabetical run and the grammatical slot, or by the cited text checking itself word for word against its anchor. The reasoning is recorded above in full rather than compressed into a flag.

**Raw-quality verdict, per page AND per region.** The bodies were re-set line-by-line from the bands; the raw was consulted only as a cross-check and is graded here for the next Pars V agent's benefit. ★ **The headline finding is that the leaf-pair spans the WHOLE range of the volume: p. 257's left column is the worst column-run in Pars V and p. 258's left column is among the cleanest, and they face each other across a single leaf.**
- **p. 257, left column (Cap. V's portion only, from the `Cap. V.` heading down) — POOR.** `Dc ramificalionc autcin`, `licct pliirima sirit`, `fjratiac gratis datac`, `gmeruliter`, `absiirdc`, `.yKcialitcr timen ct appropriale seplcm`, `Isaias-`, `de llore`, `qiii processit dc radicc lesse`, `qnod requiescet .mper eiim`, **`sepiniii`** (the gloss `Septem dona.` DESTROYED), `supientiae`, `inteUectus`, `con.nlii`, `repkhit euni`, `dcscendcndo procodit`, **`OAmimivLT`** (the gloss `Ostenduntur quatuor.` DESTROYED), `connoxio`, `summain`, `yitiorum pcr habitus virtutuni`, `symptomatum'`, `suiricientiam`, `septiformitcr`, `necessc est Spi-ritus`, `indigct namqiic`, `vilioruni ohliquitales`, `nalurales`, `virlutes`, `utrorjue`. **About twenty-eight garbles in thirty-four printed lines, with TWO marginal glosses destroyed outright and the chapter subtitle damaged in four words of six (`De rainiflcaliom gratiae in hahit.m ilonorum.`).** ★ **Density HIGH, severity MODERATE — and note that the two destroyed items are both GLOSSES, which is where this page's damage concentrates.** ★ **This is a grade BETTER than `p5-c4` found in the eighteen Cap. IV lines above it on the same column, which it graded VERY POOR with a parenthesis-substitution pattern (`(,'`, `(!`, `(|`, `(;`) — and that pattern does NOT continue below the `Cap. V.` heading. The grade moves within a column, across a chapter heading, for the second time in the corpus after p. 249.**
- **p. 257, right column — GOOD, and two full grades better than the left.** `projitcr vitinniiii iMiiii ilatn- 1'\-` (the first line badly hit), `repellenilas septein .siint ilona Spiritiis sancli`, `C(mtra superliiani`, `yw'/«.v coitra`, `.icientia`, `iraiii, ipiac`, `qiiai!-(iam`, `fortitiido coilra`, `mcn-t(!m`, `conlra avariliaiii`, `intellficlus`, `giilam`, `.mpientia`, `liixnriam`, `nalnraks`, `SKmaa.` (gloss `Secunda.` damaged), `saiicti dona dcbcnt`, `hilis indigct expcdiri`, `advcrsis`, `timorcm`, `Concupimhilis indigel`, `qiiantiim ad alTcetioncm respcctu proxiini`, `qiiantnm`, `n^spectu`, `boc fit [icr gustum .mpicntiue`, `.ipeculatione`, `ex.seculioiw`, `doniim`, `speculamlum`, `.■icieiUiae`, `clectiim exseqiiendum`, `donnm`, `scicntiae`, `convcrsamur`, `pravac`, `.'icplem`, `Nani`, `C(mfigit°`, `iustitiain`, `prudcntiam`, `paticntiam`, `comilium`, `inteUectus`, `caritatcm`, `Undc`, `sapienlia`, `verc`, `cl irtnumcrahilis`, `ne.Uas`, `'cm-` (for `con-`), `Cbristum aiitcm`, `strenuilas`, `intel-lectum`, `sapienliam`, `roverentia`, `habiLa ipcr- timorem`, `ncce.mtas`, `.^cicnlia`, `miscrandam`, `iMovit`, `stremdtas`, `cligcndo`, `fortitudi-nein`, `scptem`, `ag^eurto` (`agendo` DESTROYED), `Q„inia.` (gloss `Quinta.` damaged), `ex-peditam`. **About sixty-five single-letter garbles in fifty printed lines, but only ONE word destroyed and TWO glosses damaged.** ★ **Density HIGH, severity LOW — the failure mode here is `c`/`e`, `u`/`n`, `m`/`in` substitution that never obscures a word, which is a different and far less dangerous distribution from the left column's.**
- **p. 258, left column — GOOD, and the cleanest body region on the leaf-pair.** `exjiftliri ad proficiciidum in hono`, `necessilalis`, `supererogalionis`, `ex-l^edimur`, `pielalem`, `forliludinem`, `eliam` (twice), `oplimo`, `(|uantum`, `intelleclum`, `ajfe-clum`, `primuin lit`, `inleUeclus`, `jier`, `sajrientiae`, `(juies`, `iii contempUindo`, `sexi^.` (gloss `Sexta.` damaged), `aiiiniam`, `iUuniinari`, `perfici^`, `autein oporlet`, `malilia`, `inlirinitate`, `limor`, `pielMs`, `tertiuni scienlia`, `quartnm forliludo`, `JUuminari`, `coiisiliuin`, `Pcrfwi`, `habeiiius`, `consislit`, `sapienliae`, `arca-num coiiteiniilationis`, `consUmmatur`, `Sei>tiiiio`, `aclione`, `coiUempkUionc`, `sancli`, `Nuin coiitcmplativa`, `Trinitjileni`, `expedientia,:` (a spliced comma), `:i(l`, `intelligentium`, `intelleclum`, `saporein`, `sapientiam^`, `qiiae`, `liabere`, `pielatem`, `forliludinem`, `expedilionem`, `pedcs in viain reclain`. **About fifty-four garbles in fifty printed lines, with NO word destroyed and ONE gloss damaged.** ★ **Density HIGH, severity VERY LOW — every garble is a single-letter substitution and every word is recoverable. This is the p. 250-family grade, and it is the first body region in Pars V to lose nothing at all.**
- **p. 257 footer, left block (nn. 1–5; nn. 2–5 are this chunk's) — GOOD.** **`H. 23.`** (`d. 23.` — a `d` read as an `H`, the flattening class inverted), `q. .5.`, `Supciiun post motki`, `addil ad viilendum`, `Cap. 11,2.` (space lost), `Sem.` (for `Sent.`), `3.o` (`35.` DESTROYED), `ciuae`, `scriuuntur`, `CHr.`, `'i benc Ennius` (the guillemet destroyed), `KMOP` (closed up), `boniim`, **`m\. 2, 1.5.`** (`Phil. 2, 15.` — the abbreviation DESTROYED and the verse split). **About fourteen garbles in nine printed lines, TWO wrong readings and TWO destroyed items.** ★ **Density MODERATE, severity MODERATE.**
- **p. 257 footer, right block (nn. 6–9, all this chunk's) — GOOD.** `imde: Confirje`, **`Sap. 7, H.`** (`7, 11.` — the arabic pair read as a LETTER, the reverse of p. 256's `B 11` for `B H`), `Ilie-ron.`, **`n. 1 1 .`** (`n. 11.` split), `lil. Magislri`, `Val.` (for `Vat.`), `expediendixm`. **About seven garbles in seven printed lines, TWO wrong readings, none destroyed.** ★ **Density LOW, severity MODERATE — this is the CLEANEST register in Pars V, and the two failures in it are both the same class.**
- **p. 258 footer, left block (nn. 1–2, both this chunk's) — GOOD.** `ClVr siipra`, `nola 6.`, `Dc scti. propositionc`, `pag. 23i,` (`234` DESTROYED), `nola 4. in flnc`, `Respicilur Gen. C, 15.` (`6` DESTROYED), `slructura arcac`, `Vidc`, `n. 5 ;` (colon read as semicolon), `constructionismimerum` (space lost and `numerum` damaged), `rcvocalur`, `q^uo`, `mm Ecclesiae fitles cst`, `unwn ba-ptismn`, `umim corpns et uniis`, `[lipli. 4, i. seq.]` (`Eph. 4, 4.` DESTROYED), `Tlnem cuncla`, `Ilugo`, `Vict,,`, `c. 13: Arca deorsum tata`, `vocatijsursum` (space lost), `stricla`, `ele-cti.„`, `Dcorsiim (fifai` (`lata` DESTROYED), `conlemplativi`, `latu`, `strictn`, `Grcgor.`, `Ilomil. iii Ezech. lioinil. i. n. 16.` (`homil. 4.` DESTROYED), `IKLMOV` (closed up), `omitlunl, I pciperam ah alto` (the edition `1` read as a roman `I`), `qiiac`, `Val.`, `cu-tnco |)ro lubito`, `(coilra Vulgalam)`. **About thirty-four garbles in fourteen printed lines, ONE wrong reading that reaches the text (`I` for the edition `1`) and SIX items destroyed.** ★ **Density HIGH, severity HIGH — and this is the block whose body-column counterpart (p. 258 left) lost nothing at all. Grade the run, never the page, and do not expect the body's grade to predict the footer's on the same column.**
- **p. 258 footer, right block (nn. 3–7; nn. 3–4 are this chunk's) — GOOD.** `e.v B sn-porem seu`, `omiltit`, `scd`, `lectione sapicntiam sive`, `dirigeiidos pedes nosU'os`, `iiv viam pacis`, `cdd. rectam el pacis'`, `jiosui-niiis`, `duaruin liilc pluriuiii codd.`, `inler`, `pluiima`. **About eleven garbles in eight printed lines (counting only nn. 3–4), NO wrong reading and none destroyed.** ★ **Density LOW, severity VERY LOW.**