(10-05-2017, 03:59 AM)peteb wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Thanks JKP. Do you know of an instance where the marginal notes were of a more personal nature, for instance the physical discomforts the scribe was working under, that sort of thing?
Not that I've seen. They sometimes wrote brief notes on people they knew (like someone who may have previously owned the book) and recorded births and deaths at the end of the book, on the fly leaves, but I've never seen it as a marginal note.
They may exist, but it may be hard to find. Usually people kept journals for things like that, but parchment wasn't cheap, so even journal-writing didn't become popular until paper was more widely available (late 15th and early 16th centuries and onward).