This piece of Wahrheit und Dichtung by Melchior Kirchhofer has pencil notes that might have been written by Josef Eiselein.

The Glosas Emilianenses are glosses added to this Latin codex that are now considered the first phrases written in the Castilian language. Glosas Emilianenses (Spanish for "glosses of Emilianus" are glosses written in a Latin Codex. This article is about the literary term For other uses see Gloss (disambiguation.

Marginalia is the general term for notes, scribbles, and editorial comments made in the margin of a book. In Music, the term note has two primary meanings 1 a sign used in Musical notation to represent the relative duration and pitch of a Sound; The term is also used to describe drawings and flourishes in medieval illuminated manuscripts. True marginalia is not to be confused with reader's signs, marks (e. g. stars, crosses, fists) or doodles in books. A doodle is a type of sketch an unfocused Drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied The formal way of adding descriptive notes to a document is called annotation. A document (noun is a bounded physical representation of body of Information designed with the capacity (and usually intent to Communicate. Annotation is add on information asserted with a particular point in a Document or other piece of information

The scholia on classical manuscripts are the earliest known form of marginalia. A scholium, plural scholia (σχόλιον "comment" "lecture" is a grammatical, critical or explanatory comment either original or extracted Fermat's last theorem is probably the most famous historical marginal note. Fermat's Last Theorem is the name of the statement in Number theory that It is impossible to separate any power higher than the second into two like

The term was coined by Samuel T. Coleridge who did extensive in margin notes in almost all the books that he read. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 21 October 1772 &ndash 25 July 1834) was an English Poet, Critic and philosopher Five volumes of just his marginalia have been published. Edgar Allan Poe formally titled some of his reflections "Marginalia. Edgar Allan Poe (January 19 1809 – October 7 1849 was an American poet, short-story Writer, editor and Literary critic, "

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. Sir Walter Raleigh or Ralegh (c 1552 – 29 October 1618 was a famed English writer Poet, Soldier, Courtier and Explorer John Bethune was a poor English poet whose only available paper was borrowed space in books.

Marginalia can add or detract from the value of a book, depending on the author of the marginalia and the book. Marginalia by Tony Blair in a book by Winston Churchill, for example, might add value; a student's notes in a popular edition of Oliver Twist might not. Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953 is a British Politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC, PC (Can ( 30 November 1874 Oliver Twist (1838 is Charles Dickens' second Novel. The book was originally published in Bentley's Miscellany as a serial

Scientists doing research on the future of the user interface have studied the phenomenon of user annotation of texts. The user interface (or Human Computer Interface) is the aggregate of means by which people&mdash the users '&mdash interact with the System They discovered that in several university departments, knowledgeable 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 the last decade of the 20th century, many attempts were made to design and market e-book devices permitting a limited form of marginalia. An e-book (for electronic book: also ebook) is the Digital media equivalent of a conventional printed Book. At the beginning of the new millennium, the Sony Librie EBR-1000EP was introduced with a tiny but full qwerty keyboard below the display, to permit the creation of marginalia and bookmarks. The Sony LIBRIé EBR-1000EP is an Ebook Display device. Features The 1000EP possesses the following specifications QWERTY (ˈkwɜː(rti is the most common modern-day Keyboard layout on English-language computer and Typewriter keyboards It takes its

External links

• Cambridge University Library marginalia pages

References

• Jackson, H. J. Marginalia: Readers writing in Books, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-300-08816-7 N. B: one of the first books on this subject
• Coleridge, S. T. Marginalia, Ed. George Walley and H. J. Jackson. The Collected works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 12. Bolligen Series 75. 5 vols. Princeton University Press, 1980-.
• Alston, R. C. Books with Manuscript: A short title catalogue of Books with Manuscript Notes in the British Library. London: British Library, 1994.