A gloss is a brief notation, especially a marginal or interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text. It may be in the language of the text or in the reader's language if that is different.
A gloss is a notation regarding the main text in a document. Shown is a parchment page from the Royal Library of Copenhagen.
The Glosas Emilianenses are glosses added to this Latin codex that are now considered the first phrases written in the Castilian language.
Marginalia are marks made in the margins of a book or other document. They may be scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles, drolleries, or illuminations.
This piece of Wahrheit und Dichtung by Melchior Kirchhofer has pencil notes that might have been written by Josef Eiselein.
The Glosas Emilianenses are glosses added to this Latin codex that are considered the oldest surviving phrases written in the Castilian language.
A page from an illuminated Armenian manuscript with painted marginalia
Marginalia from Roman de la Rose