My tool kit of marginal notes is simple: "!," "?," "*," "funny," and for hard jobs, "echh".
I sympathize with the recent wave of public teeth-gnashing about the future of marginal notes.
Without the mess and confusion of marginal notes, you'll be able to work quicker, write better and think smarter.
But when I sent my play Restoration to the Royal Court two decades later, it came back with lots of marginal notes from Max sayingrd-Clark saying, 'This won't work, that won't work.' What was uncanny was that those were just the moments that worked in performance".
Led by Samantha Arten, this session, entitled "Writing in Their Books: Readers of Elizabethan Hymnals," will consider the role of marginal notes in early English print culture.
With these overviews in hand Hauptman examines documentation thematically, exploring eight aspects, including commentary and its role in Talmudic scholarship and medieval texts, the purpose of marginal notes (both published and those made by readers in their own copies of texts), the place of maps and illustrations in texts, and the histories of citation systems.
With thousands of marginal notes made beforehand, we would spend endless hours going over chapters.
But the author of the marginal note, a friend of Leonardo's called Agostino Vespucci, was certainly prompted to write in the margin by the notion that Apelles left things unfinished.
A close-up image of a marginal note in Latin about Joan of Leeds.
The modern history of the controversy begins late in the eighteenth century, when a French scholar discovered a manuscript of the Iliad from the tenth century A.D. that came complete with transcriptions of the marginal notes of ancient commentators (Aristarchus' included).
However, the fiery surges of Chapman's warriors in the Iliad, the heave and crash of his seas in the early books of the Odyssey, the sidelong beauties of his marginal notes, and the zealous fury of his denunciations of rival translators, all make this reprint of Allardyce Nicoll's gently modernised edition of Chapman's Homer a work to be admired, bought, even read right through.
