Millet 1556 — French
Jean Millet, of Saint-Amour, translated the Latin De excidio Hierosolymitano, historically attributed to Hegesippus, into French. His Les cinq livres de l’histoire d’Egesippe, contenans plusieurs guerres des Iuifs, & la ruine de Hierusalem was published at Paris by Guillaume Cavellat in 1556. The colophon names the printer Benoist Prévost and 17 January 1556.
The modern Ussani Latin text (1932) provides the correspondence framework. It is not claimed to be Millet’s sixteenth-century exemplar. Millet’s books, printed chapters, pagination, dedications and wording remain independent of Ussani’s divisions. A passage correspondence does not establish word-for-word equivalence or a Latin textual variant.
Reading and source views
Enable French in the general reader controls. Beneath French: Millet 1556, use Highlight correspondences to switch highlighting on or off. Settings contains the French display modes, folio numbers and the independent Aligned passage selector. Correspondence opens information about the selected passage, and Link shares the current French view. Text — current reading view follows the reader’s book, chapter or Ussani unit selection. Unit views present the actual recorded French span or spans, without adding unrelated material. Complete text always gives the whole translated book, including the Prologue and native chapter headings. Complete source retains dedications, titles, folios, signatures, marginal material and closing rubrics. Millet chapter and Folio follow the printed edition. Folio numbers are optional and off by default. The reader does not display image numbers. Preliminary matter preserves images 7–30 separately. Blank leaves and the colophon remain accessible. Missing outer scans 1–6 and 589–592 have no invented text.
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Transcription conventions and editorial status
Historical spelling, grammar, names, punctuation and occurrence-specific oe/œ remain unchanged. Long s is normalized to ordinary s; genuine nasal abbreviations are expanded. Every continued word carries ¬, whether or not a hyphen was printed. The reading display flows across physical printed lines and joins words divided by ¬. These markers and the exact original whitespace remain unchanged in the source XML, frozen site data and source-coordinate spans. Display-only separators and hidden division markers preserve an exact map from every source interval to the highlighted text. Native paragraph and heading groups remain distinct; Unicode is never normalized.
The sequence a͑ is exactly U+0061 followed by U+0351 COMBINING LEFT HALF RING ABOVE, described as a with curved distinguishing mark. Its contemporary name and function remain under investigation. Ordinary a, à and nasal abbreviations have not been globally converted. Handwriting is kept separate from the printed running text.
This is a provisional scholarly transcription and passage alignment. Four pilot attention flags, including I.8.1, 24 ancillary questions, the historically pending B001-B009 and two source-layer notices remain unresolved. Annotation cards record additions, contractions, displaced material and translation differences without rewriting the reading text. They do not duplicate its primary coverage.
Provenance
The site assets derive deterministically from the certified, frozen master MILLET_USSANI_MASTER_20261024T153200Z_r1. Its 558 canonical units cover all five books and the three Prologue units. All 19,104 nonempty source-line payloads across the accepted 582-page release (images 7–588) survive in the site’s source views. This current release is distinct from the earlier 558-image transcription export.
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