IN THE MARGIN

Skander-Namah

Brief additions, open space

Looking at the page

Short notes appear above and beside a red-ruled pair of verse columns, with smaller additions between lines.

Here the annotations leave much of the margin open. Their small, scattered groups invite close attention to individual places in the poem, offering a quieter contrast to pages densely surrounded by writing.

A question for the reader

What does the note add to the passage beside it—an explanation, a correction, or another reading? Its placement invites that question; establishing its meaning requires a careful transcription.

Source

Library of Congress catalogue ↗

Digital reproduction. Source file: service-amed-plmp-m018-m018.pdf; PDF page 16 (scan index, not a folio number).

The description concerns the visible arrangement of writing. The notes’ authorship, date, and relationship to the main text have not been established.

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