Marginalia w utworach polskich Sebastiana Fabiana Klonowica

Abstract

The paper focuses on marginalia - short texts usually omitted by editors and researchers. These notes are considerably formally differentiated. Glosses, subtitles, explanation notes, vocabularies, etymologies, metatext notes, proverbs, and maxims may be distinguished among them. The author discussed each type of the texts separately emphasizing functional variety of them. Marginalia were to make it easier to learn about unfamiliar realities in the ancient literature or they were arguments in legal regulations, monastic rules or in opinions referring to conduct of heroes. They also taught linguistic sensitiveness, showed the variety of vocabulary, made people reflect on word and compound meanings as well as etymology. Some notes performed also the phatic function. Therefore marginalia make an interesting source of our knowledge of an author's research skills and they show his language awareness.