marginalia
Scribbles beside text
Marginalia are notes, comments, or drawings made in the margins of a book or manuscript.
The term usually refers to handwritten annotations by readers rather than printed matter: The used textbook was full of the previous owner's marginalia.
Scholarly marginalia in historical texts can reveal how past readers interpreted works.
The singular marginale is rare; marginalia typically serves for both.
Marginal citations below text
- glossesSurface shines or annotations
- notationsWritten symbolic marks
- jottingsHastily recorded notes
- scribblesHasty, careless marks
remarks · observations · comments · cross-references · citations · underlinings · highlights · asterisks
Critical textual interpretation
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- analysisMethodical study of parts
elucidation · critique · provenance · editorial notes · apparatus · collation
Ancient bound manuscript
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
- incunabulaEarliest European printed books
- folioSingle-fold page format
- quartoFour-leaf printing format
vellum · parchment · gutter · leaf · recto · verso · binding · illumination
Minor and unplanned
- secondaryLesser in rank
- ancillaryProviding additional support
- supplementaryServing to complete
- tangentialBarely connected to main point
parenthetical · digressive · aside · addendum · afterthought · sidebar · ephemera · liminal
footnotes
Marginal citations below text
scribbles · remarks · observations · comments · cross-references · citations · underlinings · highlights · asterisks · brackets
exegesis
Critical textual interpretation
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
- interpretationAssigned meaning
analysis · elucidation · critique · provenance · editorial notes · apparatus · collation
codex
Ancient bound manuscript
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
- incunabulaEarliest European printed books
- folioSingle-fold page format
quarto · vellum · parchment · gutter · leaf · recto · verso · binding · illumination · rubric
incidental
Minor and unplanned
- secondaryLesser in rank
- ancillaryProviding additional support
- supplementaryServing to complete
tangential · parenthetical · digressive · aside · addendum · afterthought · sidebar · ephemera · liminal
- medieval textsmanuscripts, Gutenberg Bible, breviary, codices, missals
- scholiaglosses, annotations
- textual scholarshipemendation, collation, emendations, critical edition, critical apparatus
- writingsessay, essays, article, articles, stories
- written worksessay, novel, anthologies, history books, letter
- book culturereading, reader, book lover, bookworm, bibliophile
marginaliabody text
Document's main prose
headline · corpus · substance · title · centerpiece
- marginal notesCommentary written in margins
- marginal tax ratesPercentage owed per income tier
- marginal costPer-unit production increase expense
- marginal benefitAdditional gain from one more
- diminishing marginal
- marginal returnBenefit from one more