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Mar 21, 2022 · Five volumes of Samuel T. Coleridge’s marginalia have been published. Beginning in the 1990s, attempts have been made to design and market e-book devices permitting a limited form of marginalia. Some famous marginalia were serious works, or drafts thereof, written in margins due to scarcity of paper.
Nov 15, 2023 · THE POPULARITY OF THE GENEVAN ANNOTATIONS. Despite the antagonism of the most famous reading of the Geneva notes—James I's attack on them as “very partiall, vntrue, seditious, and sauouring too much, of daungerous, and trayterous conceites” Footnote 37 —the evidence from surviving manuscript marginalia of their importance to readers is supported by wider circumstantial evidence.
- More Literal Translations
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- Textual Variants / Alternate Textual Readings
- Miscellaneous Information
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These are prefixed by the dagger sign “†” and then, “Heb.,” “Cal.” or “Gr.” noting a more literal translation of the original languages than was deemed suitable for the text. Scrivener counts 4,111 of these in the Old Testament, (77 of which relate to the Aramaic portions), and 112 in the NT. For example, in Acts 12:20, the KJV text reads, “the † k...
These are in a sense one part of a larger category of notes dealing with “alternate readings.” These are prefixed by double vertical lines “||” and then, “Or,” noting that there is another equally probable way that the text may be translated other than that expressed in the text. Scrivener counts 2,156 of these in the OT, and 582 in the NT. For exa...
These are also in a sense a smaller subcategory of “alternate readings” like the alternate translations above. They are likewise typically prefixed by double vertical lines || and then, “Or” noting that there is a textual variant in the passage, and an equally probable textual form that may better represent the wording of the original autographs. S...
There are three basic kinds of information given in this type of note. In the OT, 63 notes give the meaning of Proper names; 240 provide harmonizing information with a parallel text or explanations. In the NT, 35 marginal notes provide miscellaneous information relating to explanations or brief exposition. These can be introduced in almost any of t...
These are prefixed with an asterisk (*) and then an abbreviated Scripture reference judged to be relevant to the present context. Scrivener completely redid these for the Cambridge Paragraph Bible, noting that many or most of those included in the 1611 were essentially worthless for the English reader, as they typically refer to the chapter and ver...
Thus we can see that if we classify by function, there were five basic forms of marginal notes found in the original 1611 KJV. But what was their own attitude towards these notes? To that question we turn in our next blog post, accessible here.
The Glosas Emilianenses are glosses added to this Latin codex that are considered the oldest surviving phrases written in the Castilian language. Marginalia (or apostils) are marks made in the margins of a book or other document. They may be scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles, drolleries, or illuminations.
Introduction to Melville's Marginalia in The New Testament and The Book of Psalms. Open the digital copy. Brian Yothers University of Texas at El Paso. Few of Melville's books seem to have been in his hands as frequently or for so long a period of time as the copy of The New Testament and The Book of Psalms (New York: American Bible Society, 1844) that he received from his Aunt Jean Melville ...
The marginalia in Algonquian Bibles ranges from the mundane to the spiritually poignant: for some, the Bible represented a place to practice writing the alphabet or one's name. For others, it was a space to reflect upon the relationship between the text and the precarious state of one's soul.
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Nov 15, 2023 · The Bible, however, was the axiomatic book of early modern England —“ the platform on which the whole edi fi ce of early modern religious, social and political institutions was built ...
