Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #156 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

syluestersylvester

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it: 201 times in 71 works
Consistency: 98.5% (201 of 204)
Reach if approved: ~214 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sylvester
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 204 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (201 changes in 71 works, 98.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 201)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… frame ſuch a donation, which he knew was repugnant to y^e doctrine of Chriſt. SylueſterSylvester was more vppright than to receiue that, which he knewe could not be receiued …
With rule
… frame ſuch a donation, which he knew was repugnant to y^e doctrine of Chriſt. SylueſterSylvester was more vppright than to receiue that, which he knewe could not be receiued …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 885 · Open in the reader
Printed
… one was Gregory 7. as Cardinal Benno testifieth, & such also were al the Popes frō SyluesterSylvester the 2. to Gregory the 7. But amōg them Benedict 8. aliàs 9. who before his Papacy was …
With rule
… one was Gregory 7. as Cardinal Benno testifieth, & such also were al the Popes frō SyluesterSylvester the 2. to Gregory the 7. But amōg them Benedict 8. aliàs 9. who before his Papacy was …
George Downame · A Treatise Concerning Antichrist · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet sounde in the onely foundation, Christe, openly testified by sundry publike teachers, vntill SyluesterSylvester the seconde, Anno Domini 1000. by the diuell him selfe (as euen the Popish stories …
With rule
… yet sounde in the onely foundation, Christe, openly testified by sundry publike teachers, vntill SyluesterSylvester the seconde, Anno Domini 1000. by the diuell him selfe (as euen the Popish stories …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Italus. li, primo, Philippus de Mantua, Italus, li. primo. Ioannes Capgraue, Anglus, li. primo. SyluesterSylvester Meoccius, Venet. lib. i, Promaiori intelligentia.
With rule
… Italus. li, primo, Philippus de Mantua, Italus, li. primo. Ioannes Capgraue, Anglus, li. primo. SyluesterSylvester Meoccius, Venet. lib. i, Promaiori intelligentia.
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… your notable innocency with how earneſt affection I haue defended againſt your ſlanderous enemy SylueſterSylvester, euery reader doth ſufficiently vnderſtand, namely, that the opinion and report of your vnreprouable …
With rule
… your notable innocency with how earneſt affection I haue defended againſt your ſlanderous enemy SylueſterSylvester, euery reader doth ſufficiently vnderſtand, namely, that the opinion and report of your vnreprouable …
Martin Luther · The Liberty of a Christian · Open in the reader
Printed
… because of the gyfte that is fayned to haue had ben geuen to Pope SyluesterSylvester, and because of the translation of the seat Emperyall to Constantinople, for that Paul …
With rule
… because of the gyfte that is fayned to haue had ben geuen to Pope SyluesterSylvester, and because of the translation of the seat Emperyall to Constantinople, for that Paul …
Andreas Osiander · The Conjectures of the End of the World · Open in the reader
Printed
… Apoſtles idle? See Rom. 1.8. & 10.18. Col. 1.6.23. beſides what your owne Stapleton reports of Thomas from SylueſterSylvester and Chryſologus: as if in preaching he had reached to the very Indians & the …
With rule
… Apoſtles idle? See Rom. 1.8. & 10.18. Col. 1.6.23. beſides what your owne Stapleton reports of Thomas from SylueſterSylvester and Chryſologus: as if in preaching he had reached to the very Indians & the …
William Sclater · Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 109 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be his ſeat: therefore Conſtantine the great leauing the cietie of Rome to SylueſterSylvester the Biſhop of Rome, made yet the way more eaſie: till at the laſt …
With rule
… to be his ſeat: therefore Conſtantine the great leauing the cietie of Rome to SylueſterSylvester the Biſhop of Rome, made yet the way more eaſie: till at the laſt …
John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 176 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Pageant of Popes A02895

Printed
SYluesterSylvester the seconde was a Frenchman, in profession a monke, and called Gilbert, before he …
With rule
SYluesterSylvester the seconde was a Frenchman, in profession a monke, and called Gilbert, before he …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
SYluesterSylvester y^e third a Romaine, first called bishop of Saba obtayned to be Pope, partly …
With rule
SYluesterSylvester y^e third a Romaine, first called bishop of Saba obtayned to be Pope, partly …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 76 · Open in the reader