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minus-squareprettybunnyslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·edit-27 months agoThey’re called marginalia and they came from bored scribes or monks or whoever doodling. People studying texts find them and document them along with them texts. Some of them are pretty hilarious.
minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-27 months agoMarginalia is general term for whatever was drawn in the margins, I think a more precise term is drollery, from French drôle which means funny. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drollery
They’re called marginalia and they came from bored scribes or monks or whoever doodling.
People studying texts find them and document them along with them texts. Some of them are pretty hilarious.
Marginalia is general term for whatever was drawn in the margins, I think a more precise term is drollery, from French drôle which means funny. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drollery