How this was made

This is a draft. No chapter has been reviewed by a scholar of the text, and it should be read that way.

The Latin

The Latin is the EEBO-TCP keyed transcription of Savile’s 1618 edition (TCP A16626, public domain). Long s, ampersands and accents are normalised for reading. The keying has its own slips; the errata list at the foot of each chapter records where the keyed text and the printed page differ, as found by checking each page image.

The English

The translation is a machine draft made with Claude (Anthropic). A translation convention (causa Dei as “the cause of God”, liberum arbitrium as “free choice”, modern English for Scripture, no silent emendation) was set in a pilot on three sections, the Preface, I.1 and I.35. The rest was translated chunk by chunk with that convention, the Latin, and the image of each Savile page in front of the translator. Where the print misreads, the note says so and gives the evident sense.

The Preface and the main text of I.1 are from the pilot; everything else is from the batch run. What has not been done: a line-by-line check of the English against the Latin, and a review of the notes and the identifications of sources.

Addresses and notes

Savile’s page and section letter (A to E down the margin) address every passage. Savile’s own marginal citations and variants stand in the right-hand column, keyed by the small letter-and-number marks in the text. The numbered notes are the translator’s. Where a keyed page label was wrong, the page has been corrected on this site and the Latin left as keyed (four places: I.1 corollary 39, II.14, II.34 twice).

Page images

The page images are in the Minerva facsimile on archive.org. They are linked, not hosted, because German law protects photographs of public-domain works.

Corrections: wilson@wrootlabs.com, citing the Savile address.