editorial notes
Margin remarks added
Editorial notes are comments added by editors to clarify, contextualize, or explain material in a text.
They appear in brackets within the text or as footnotes, distinguishing the editor's voice from the author's: [Editorial note: The following passage was reconstructed from fragments].
Common in scholarly editions, reprinted correspondence, and posthumous publications where the original author cannot speak for themselves.
- annotationsExplanatory additions to documents
- marginaliaNotes in page edges
- footnotesMarginal citations below text
- revisionsAlterations to improve
- commentsSpoken or written reactions
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