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Great post! I love a manicule (actually any form of marginalia). I was recently thumbing through a heavily annotated book from a class in grad school and having one of those ‘damn, did I really read this so closely’ moments, when I read a note I’d made to myself and it all came rushing back. Yes, marginalia is profoundly personal - but if a scholar can use it to discover the previously unknown about the writer, well done!

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I love that moment! I keep all of my books and still have reams of printed articles from my university days. I was sorting through papers in my study last week and came across some of them, which was a surreal but special moment. It felt so long ago but like you said, it all came rushing back.

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Dubito! Such great marginalia. And wow! Great minds think alike, apparently. Loved this post! Now I’m going to get lost in Dee’s marginalia for a while:)

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I've lost hours and hours poring over his marginalia – there's little gems like this dubito that make it slightly addictive!

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A fascinating post!

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Thank you! I nearly didn't write it as it seemed so 'bitty', but I figured I found it interesting so maybe somebody else would too.

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