marginalia
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Ms. Allen traces pen names, decodes handwriting and deciphers marginalia in Richmond’s correspondence and books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The interstitial collage elements play the role of footnotes, or more accurately, the marginalia of a slightly older, wiser reader revisiting a beloved book.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2023
It would be five more years before “In Search” was published in full and decades before an authoritative text was established from the morass of his marginalia.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2022
I created a tiny app for tracking my studies and adding marginalia to digitally scanned quotes.
From The Verge ● Mar. 4, 2022
The vines were beautiful, deep green against the glowing sun-kissed stone, like the illuminated marginalia in a manuscript.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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