We know what the composer was thinking as he wrote the piece because we can read his handwritten marginalia on the manuscript.
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Marginalia
//mɑɹd͡ʒɪˈneɪli.ə//
Synonyms for "marginalia" (42 found)
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6 translations across 5 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مُلَاحَظَة هَامِشِيَّة noun (notes in the margin of document — see also marginal note)
Bulgarian
1 entries- забележка в полето noun (notes in the margin of document — see also marginal note)
German
1 entries- Randnote noun (notes in the margin of document — see also marginal note)
Polish
1 entries- marginalia noun (notes in the margin of document — see also marginal note)
Portuguese
2 entries- nota à margem noun (notes in the margin of document — see also marginal note)
- notas à margem noun (notes in the margin of document — see also marginal note)
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In so doing, he transforms the Foxian compulsion to distinguish true martyrs from false ones —and thus to differentiate his own saint-making project from medieval hagiography—into a model of textual criticism, directed at detecting and desanctifying the false martyr through the critical medium of marginalia.
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