Word Of The Day
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jazzy_daveToday's excellent word is -
marginalia
[ˌmɑːdʒɪˈneɪlɪə]
NOUN
notes written in the margins of a text.
"the book was covered with marginalia"
Marginalia (or apostils) are marks made in the margins of a book or other document. They may be scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles, or illuminations. I love finding an old book , in particular, those which may have been used for study or courses in which the student or reader has added comments or wanted to conjecture an argument against the thesis or subject matter. The first recorded use of the word marginalia is in 1819 in Blackwood's Magazine. From 1845 to 1849 Edgar Allan Poe titled some of his reflections and fragmentary material "Marginalia.". Five volumes of Samuel T. Coleridge's marginalia have been published. Some famous marginalia were serious works, or drafts thereof, written in margins due to scarcity of paper. Voltaire composed in book margins while in prison, and Sir Walter Raleigh wrote a personal statement in margins just before his execution. Beginning in the 1990s, attempts have been made to design and market e-book devices permitting a limited form of marginalia. Yet for some reason it doesn't feel right as in my opinion marginalia is best suited to physical books.
Catherine C. Marshall, doing research on the future of user interface design, has studied the phenomenon of user annotation of texts. She discovered that in several university departments, students would scour the piles of textbooks at used book dealers for consistently annotated copies. The students had a good appreciation for their predecessors' distillation of knowledge. In recent years, the marginalia left behind by university students as they engage with library textbooks has also been a topic of interest to sociologists looking to understand the experience of being a university student
In fact, I am currently reading this which has been annotated by a student who was obviously studying classical texts for the Open University course Homer: Poetry and Society.
marginalia
[ˌmɑːdʒɪˈneɪlɪə]
NOUN
notes written in the margins of a text.
"the book was covered with marginalia"
Marginalia (or apostils) are marks made in the margins of a book or other document. They may be scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles, or illuminations. I love finding an old book , in particular, those which may have been used for study or courses in which the student or reader has added comments or wanted to conjecture an argument against the thesis or subject matter. The first recorded use of the word marginalia is in 1819 in Blackwood's Magazine. From 1845 to 1849 Edgar Allan Poe titled some of his reflections and fragmentary material "Marginalia.". Five volumes of Samuel T. Coleridge's marginalia have been published. Some famous marginalia were serious works, or drafts thereof, written in margins due to scarcity of paper. Voltaire composed in book margins while in prison, and Sir Walter Raleigh wrote a personal statement in margins just before his execution. Beginning in the 1990s, attempts have been made to design and market e-book devices permitting a limited form of marginalia. Yet for some reason it doesn't feel right as in my opinion marginalia is best suited to physical books.
Catherine C. Marshall, doing research on the future of user interface design, has studied the phenomenon of user annotation of texts. She discovered that in several university departments, students would scour the piles of textbooks at used book dealers for consistently annotated copies. The students had a good appreciation for their predecessors' distillation of knowledge. In recent years, the marginalia left behind by university students as they engage with library textbooks has also been a topic of interest to sociologists looking to understand the experience of being a university student
In fact, I am currently reading this which has been annotated by a student who was obviously studying classical texts for the Open University course Homer: Poetry and Society.
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