The Nihil Obstat and the Imprimatur do not apply to my notes, of course.

Proofreading

As almost always, I retyped the text by hand rather than scanning it — not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend: Qui scribit, bis legit. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if success­ful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.)

This transcription has been minutely proofread. In the table of contents above, the sections are shown on blue backgrounds, indicating that I believe the text of them to be completely errorfree. As elsewhere onsite, the header bar at the top of each chapter's webpage will remind you with the same color scheme.

The edition I followed was not so well proofread, with a fair number of typographical errors. I marked my corrections, when important (or unavoidable because inside a link), with a bullet like this;º and when trivial, with a dotted underscore like this: as elsewhere on my site, glide your cursor over the bullet or the underscored words to read the variant. Similarly, bullets before measurements provide conversions to metric, e.g., •10 miles.

Many of the proper names were manifestly misspelled, or inconsistently spelled. I fixed those that I could, but the obscurity of some of the people and places involved made others very hard to check and almost guarantees that in my transcription some are still wrong: you should not rely on those I haven't corrected.

A small number of odd spellings, curious turns of phrase, etc. have been marked <!‑‑ sic  in the sourcecode, just to confirm that they were checked.

Any over­looked mistakes, please drop me a line, of course: especially if you have a copy of the printed book in front of you.

Illustrations

In addition to the author's portrait on the back cover of the jacket, the book includes six illustrations. I've moved them the better to accompany the text. There is no table of illustrations but here is mine, with the original page numbers (also marked in the sourcecode of the various webpages):

Pagination and Local Links

For citation and indexing purposes, the pagination is shown in the right margin of the text at the page turns (like at the end of this line); p57  these are also local anchors. Sticklers for total accuracy will of course find the anchor at its exact place in the sourcecode.

In addition, I've inserted a number of other local anchors: whatever links might be required to accommodate the author's own cross-references, as well as a few others for my own purposes. If in turn you have a website and would like to target a link to some specific passage of the text, please let me know: I'll be glad to insert a local anchor there as well.

The icon I use for this book derives from the photograph (p132) of what's left of the original 19c abbey building, and the (slightly damaged) cover of my print copy. In the header bars of the various chapters, for the old building the "next" icon substitutes a partial color photograph of today's monastery, taken from its site.

Images with borders lead to more information. The thicker the border, the more information. (Details here.)
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