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{{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell;<ref name=oed>Template:Cite OED</ref><ref name="collins" /> plural: {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) is the Latin phrase meaning note well.<ref name="collins">Template:Cite Collins Dictionary</ref> In manuscripts, nota bene is abbreviated in upper-case as NB and N.B., and in lower-case as n.b. and nb; the editorial usages of nota bene and notate bene first appeared in the English style of writing around the year 1711.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="etymology">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In Modern English, since the 14th century, the editorial usage of NB is common to the legal style of writing of documents to direct the reader's attention to a thematically relevant aspect of the subject that qualifies the matter being litigated,<ref name="legalterms">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> whereas in academic writing, the editorial abbreviation n.b. is a casual synonym for footnote.
In medieval manuscripts, the editorial marks used to draw the reader's attention to a supporting text also are called {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} marks; however, the catalogue of medieval editorial marks does not include the NB abbreviation. The medieval equivalents to the n.b.-mark are anagrams derived from the four letters of the Latin word {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, thus the abbreviation DM for {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("worth remembering") and the typographic index symbol of the manicule (☞), the little hand that indicates the start of the relevant supporting text.<ref>Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007), p. 44.</ref>
See alsoEdit
- Annotation
- Obiter dictum
- Postscript
- Quod vide
- List of Latin abbreviations
- List of Latin phrases
- List of legal Latin terms