3.1.5 Notes

We have distinguished different kinds of notes, depending on the one hand on their place on the original page, and on the other hand on their function. There are three main types, which are all encoded with the <note> element, but differ in their additional attributes. The following possibilities occur:

1. Notes with the classical footnote function, which are always precisely anchored in the text. Usually, they supply bibliographical information. Attributes given are:

• n: supplies the identifier, i.e. the symbol used to anchor the note in the text (a number, letter, or symbol such as *).
• place: indicates where the note appears in the original text. "Footnotes" occur in all possible places found in the original texts, namely at the foot (of the page), in the margin, and inline. Inline means that the note text is partly inserted into the body of the running text as a minute paragraph of its own and does not usually extend into the margins. With respect to margin, we have not distinguished left or right; in the source texts it is always the outer margin that is used.
• anchored: always "yes" with this type of note.

These kind of notes have been inserted exactly in the place where the footnote anchor is found in the original, thus replacing this identifier. An example is here given from text SciA1720.

<P><SC>The</SC> ancientest and best Authors of Physick, who lived in a Coun&rehy;try more exposed to these Calami&rehy;ties than ours, observed the Con&rehy;stitution of the <IT>Air</IT>, which preceded <IT>Pestilential Fevers</IT>, to be great <IT>Heats</IT> attended with much <IT>Rain</IT> and <IT>South&rehy;erly Winds</IT> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot" ANCHORED="yes"><FOREIGN LANG="LAT">Vid. Hippocrat. Epidem. lib.</FOREIGN> 3.</NOTE>: And one of Them takes particular Notice, that no o<PB N="3">ther than a <IT>moist</IT> and <IT>hot</IT> Tempera&rehy;ment of the <IT>Air</IT> brings the <IT>Plague</IT>; and that the Duration of this Con&rehy;stitution is the Measure of the Vio&rehy;lence of the Distemper. <NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot" ANCHORED="yes">Galen. <FOREIGN LANG="LAT">de Temperament. lib. 1. Cap. 4. & Comment. in Epid.</FOREIGN> 1.3.</NOTE></P>

2. Marginalia, which are notes that are not anchored in the text by an identifier, but nevertheless can be taken to refer to a particular part of the main text. Like the footnote type, they sometimes supply bibliographical material, but they also give additional information related to the topic treated in the text. Attributes and their values with this type are as follows:

• type: marginalia.
• place: margin or inline. Cf. explanation above.
• anchored: always no.

These marginalia have been inserted into the text as near to the position where they are found in the original text and as close as possible to the textual part they belong or refer to. Care was taken not to interrupt text sentences, if practicable, but to fill in the note after the end of a sentence (signalled by either a full stop or a semi-colon).

An inline-type of marginalia is provided by text RelB1692:

<P>These Words are gather'd out of the 33. Epistle <IT>to the</IT> <FOREIGN REND="it" LANG="LAT">Lapsi</FOREIGN>: Wherein he complains of the boldness of some factious Presbyters of his, who had taken upon 'em in the time of his Retirement to admit the <FOREIGN REND="it" LANG="LAT">Lapsi</FOREIGN> to Communion by their own Authority with&rehy;out consulting him, and in writing to him had pre&rehy;tended to write in the name of the <IT>Church</IT>. <NOTE TYPE="marginalia" PLACE="inline" ANCHORED="NO">After he had said that the pow&rehy;er of Binding and Loosing was com&rehy;mitted to the A&rehy;postles, he sub&rehy;joins, <Q REND="it" LANG="LAT">Inde per tem&rehy;porum & successio&rehy;num vices, Episco&rehy;porum ordinatio, & Ecclesi&aelig; ratio de&rehy;currit, ut Ecclesia super Episcopos constituatur: & omnes actus Ecclesi&aelig; per eosdem actus gubernetur. Cum hoc itaque Divin&acirc; lege fundatum sit, miror quosdam audaci temeritate</Q>, &amp;c.</NOTE> He briskly asserts the Au&rehy;thority of Bishops; he tells 'em that the Church consists in the Bishop, the Clergy and the People; and that in the Receiving of the <FOREIGN

REND="it" LANG="LAT">Lapsi</FOREIGN> into the Church, it was ne&rehy;cessary there should be the <IT>concur&rehy;rence</IT> of the Bishop who had the power committed to him of <IT>Binding</IT> and <IT>Loosing</IT>.</P>

3. The last kind of note are marginalia with a text structuring function, often akin to or substituting for sub-headings in the body of the text. Usually, they direct the attention of the reader in some way. Their attributes and values are:

• type: structure.
• place: margin.
• anchored: no.

These structure notes, when inserted, usually precede the paragraphs they "head". Alternatively, if they are found in the margin mid-way of a paragraph, they are put before the sentence starting the section they can be seen to refer to.

Notes with a headline function are used throughout text SciB1696, for example:

<P><NOTE TYPE="structure" PLACE="margin" ANCHORED="no">&rphand; Of Sea&rehy;Shells, and o&rehy;ther Marine Bodies, at Land, in Stone, <IT>&amp;c.</IT></NOTE> 7. But in regard that <IT>Sea-shells, Teeth, and Bones of Fishes, &amp;c.</IT> are found very plentifully in <IT>England</IT>, and many other Countries, as well upon the <IT>Surface of the Earth</IT>, and the <IT>Tops</IT> of the <IT>highest Hills</IT>, as <IT>within the Earth</IT>, in <IT>Cole-pits, Mines, Quarries, &amp;c.</IT> the said Shells, Teeth, <IT>&amp;c.</IT> being <IT>lodged amongst the Cole</IT>, in the Mass and <IT>Substance</IT> of even the <IT>hardest Stone, Marble, &amp;c.</IT> 'tis very ex&rehy;tremely desirable that <IT>careful search</IT> be made after these <IT>things</IT> in <IT>all Parts</IT> of the <IT>World</IT>, and an <IT>account</IT> kept <IT>where-ever</IT> they are found;

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