Marginalanteckningarna
Marginalanteckningarna is a Swedish scholarly term for the body of marginal annotations found in manuscripts and printed books. The concept includes notes, symbols, and drawings added in the margins by readers, scribes, editors, or owners, focusing on both the content of the notes and their physical placement.
Marginalia take various forms: glosses or scholia that explain or translate terms; marginal commentary that restates
Historically marginalia appear in ancient manuscripts and become widespread in medieval Europe, where scribes and students
Marginalanteckningarna inform textual criticism and reception studies, revealing how a text was interpreted, taught, or circulated.
Contemporary work increasingly relies on digitization and databases to preserve marginal annotations and enable large-scale analysis