| dc.description.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. | en_EN |
