marginale

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A form of marginalia — Notes in the margin of a document.

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Meanings

nounmarginale (plural marginalia)

plural marginalia

  1. singularsingular of marginalia

    As the surrounding marginalia are all in violet and are from mh 10, it is reasonable to see in this an indication of the equivalence of th C to mh 10.[…]The marginale is opposite lines 1 and 2 in the right-hand margin.

    1963, Textus, volume 3, page 21
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    All these, as I have before said, have one and the same immediate origin, the inserted marginale. But that marginale itself may be due to three sources; first, a mere editor’s quotation for reference; secondly, a various reading; and thirdly, a double text which, as I hold, in most cases has grown out of the various readings of antiquity systematised by rival schools. It is these last two classes of marginalia which naturally and necessarily occur most frequently when the text is originally in a corrupt state, and by their subsequent inclusion in the text render the confusion worse confounded.

    1882, Richard Shute, “Chapter VII. Of the Nicomachean Ethics”, in On the History of the Process by Which the Aristotelian Writings Arrived at Their Present Form, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1888, page 163

    The Pendocks occur in the marginalia even more frequently than the Underhills; did the manuscript belong to them as well? It is harder to say. The marginale on ff. 39ᵛ, 40, in hand h, probably represents the authentic will of Robert, son of Robert de Pendock, who might well ordian to be buried at Redmarley d’Abitot, near Pendock; unfortunately, however, the entry, like all others which refer to the Pendock family, is in an Underhill hand.

    1963, Annuale Mediaevale, volume 4, page 42

    Insertion into the text of the marginale at line 20 (see app. crit.) would fit the first passage from Aeneas Silvius extremely well. There is, however, no way of ascertaining the exact relationship between marginalia, poet and copyist.

    1993, P. Schoonbeeg, “Part Three: Northern Humanism”, “Friderici Mauri carmina. An edition with commentary”, in F. Akkerman, G. C. Huisman, A. J. Vanderjagt, editors, Wessel Gansfort (1419–1489) and Northern Humanism (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, volume 40), E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 370

    The second marginale next to Walker’s entry (l.11m) must have been written after 8 November, the date of his last recorded court appearance (see p 58, ll.23–32).[…]In this section Lawrence occasionally uses an italic script for marginalia and other notes.

    1994, “Endnotes”, in J. Alan B. Somerset, editor, Shropshire, volume 2: “Editorial Apparatus”, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 638

    In the case of some marginalia written by A2 we find two rapidly drawn commas, one beneath the other, and both beneath the omitted word, being used as a hiatus mark. This mark is found in the first marginale on fol. 79v (l. 831 uidelicet), the marginale on fol. 81V (l. 1178 animalia), and the second marginale on fol. 83r (l. 1422 tamen).

    2004, Expositio in Hexameron, →ISBN, page xxviii

Origin

  1. Latinmargināle
  2. Englishmarginale

From Latin margināle, singular of marginālia.

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