marginal notes
Writing beside text
Marginal notes are annotations written in the margins of a page, typically comments, questions, or explanations alongside the main text.
Scholars, students, and careful readers leave marginal notes to engage with what they're reading: Her copy of the novel was full of marginal notes.
Historical marginal notes sometimes become valuable records of how earlier readers understood a text.
- highlightingEmphasizing key parts
- annotationAdded explanatory comment
- pencil marksLines from lead writing
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
- glossShine or annotation
diacritics · underlining · reference · close reading · palimpsest · exegesis · sticky notes · side notes · interlinear · asides · historical commentary · citation · footnote · endnote · doodles · paraphrase · critical apparatus · explication
- Writing Activitiesjotting, scribbling, typing, keying, drafting
- exegesisbiblical commentary, literal interpretation, literal sense, typology, lemma
- Glossatorsgloss, glosses, Hugo, apparatus
- Quran manuscriptsbismillah, Arabic calligraphy, Arabic script, illuminated manuscripts, folio
- BibleOld Testament, New Testament, Holy Scriptures, Adam, Moses
- Bible TranslationsKing James Version, NIV, KJV, King James Bible, RSV