Editing Marginalia (section)

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{{Short description|Marks made in margins of book pages}}
{{About||the collection of short stories, essays, biography, and poetry|Marginalia (collection){{!}}''Marginalia'' (collection)|the international convention on documents|Apostille convention}}

[[File:Kirchhofer Wahrheit und Dichtung 019.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|This piece of ''Wahrheit und Dichtung'' by [[Melchior Kirchhofer]] has pencil notes that might have been written by [[Josef Eiselein]].]]
[[File:Codiceemil.jpg|thumb|The [[Glosas Emilianenses]] are [[gloss (annotation)|glosses]] added to this Latin codex that are considered the oldest surviving phrases written in the [[Castilian language]].]]
[[File:Sargis Pitsak.jpg|thumb|A page from an illuminated [[Armenian language|Armenian]] manuscript with painted marginalia]]

'''Marginalia''' (or '''apostils''') are marks made in the [[margin (typography)|margins]] of a [[book]] or other document. They may be scribbles, comments, [[gloss (annotation)|glosses (annotations)]], [[critique]]s, [[doodle]]s, [[drolleries]], or [[illuminated manuscript|illuminations]].