Notes, misprints and errata

A page in the reader shows two kinds of things: what the edition itself prints, and what the curators of this site add. The site keeps them visibly apart, so a reader always knows which is which.

What the edition prints

Some editions print notes of their own. The 1630 edition is the richest: under each day's eulogies come Baronius's footnotes (Notationes), on the sources of each eulogy, keyed to marks in the text as they are printed; and in the margin, small marginal notes refer to the places in his Annales Ecclesiastici where each saint is discussed. The site shows them as printed, in the edition's own language, at the foot of the page and beside the text. See, for example, 1 January in the 1630 edition.

The edition's own errata

Old books often end with a list of errata: corrections the printer or the editor made after the pages were printed. Where an edition's errata list corrects a eulogy, the site shows the correction right after the words it concerns (or just before them, for an addition that opens the eulogy), in brown, as [Errata: …]. Hovering over it, or focusing it with the keyboard, shows the erratum as printed and where it is found. For example, on 16 January in the 1630 edition the text prints Berradi, and the errata correct it to Berardi.

Misprints found by the curators

Some misprints are not corrected by the edition itself. When the curators have verified one against the printed page, the site shows it, in grey, as [sic! expected: …]: sic! means the word is printed so, and the expected reading follows. These are the site's findings, not the edition's: they are distinct from its errata. Each is a single word, or a phrase of up to three words, and each is recorded in the open registry (see Data and sources). For example, a misprint in the 2004 Latin edition is marked on 12 June.

Curator notes

Some things need more than a word. A red dagger † in the text marks a curator note, given in English at the foot of the page, under a short rule: a second note on the same page is marked ††, and so on. Daggers are used, rather than asterisks or numbers, so that they are never mistaken for the edition's own marks. A note may record an error in the source, explain a decision about a eulogy's identity, or point to the same eulogy on another day; the identifiers it names link to their eulogies. For example, a note on 1 January in the Italian edition records a place translated wrongly.

The notes page of an edition

Every edition has a page that gathers, for the whole year, the curators’ notes, the misprints and the errata, each with its eulogy and a link to its day. It can be filtered by kind. Open it from the reader, or at /read/<edition>/notes, for example the notes of the 1630 edition.