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marginalia
Latin, [margo] border + Greek [alia] species.

Notes written on the border of a page by the reader (or editor). Marginalia left by a reader of distinction are often valuable; Charles Lamb, for example, valued highly the comments scribbled in the books which he had lent to Coleridge.

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