marginalia
nounUS /mɑɹd͡ʒɪˈneɪli.ə/ · UK /mɑːd͡ʒɪˈneɪli.ə/
Etymology From New Latin marginālia (cf. margināle (neuter singular (adjective / noun)), from Medieval Latin neuter plural of marginālis (“on the periphery”), from Latin margō (“border, edge”). By surface analysis, marginal + -ia. Compare margin.
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Plural normally Notes in the margin of a document.
- We know what the composer was thinking as he wrote the piece because we can read his handwritten marginalia on the manuscript.
- In so doing, he transforms the Foxian compulsion to distinguish true martyrs from false ones —and thus to differentiate his own saint-making project from medieval hagiography—into a model of textual criticism, directed at detecting and desanctifying the false martyr through the critical medium of marginalia.2008, Jennifer Summit, Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England, page 170:
- Derived terms
- marginalian