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Answer for the clue "Notes written on the side ", 10 letters:
marginalia

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Word definitions for marginalia in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Marginalia (or apostils ) are marks made in the margins of a book or other document. They may be scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations) , critiques , doodles , or illuminations .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marginalia \Mar`gi*na"li*a\, n. pl. [NL.] Marginal notes.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Notes in the margin of a document.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1832, from Latin marginalia , neuter adjective marginalis "marginal," from marginis (see margin ).

Usage examples of marginalia.

He had now amassed about five ninety-minute tapes of material and marginalia, all on his thesis subject.

He actually did pride himself on the vast compendium of notes, marginalia, filigree of thought.

They packed up the pillowcase with carven flank steaks of muscle, fat, and choice lean organs and bits and pieces, the marginalia of a fresh corpse du jour.

Nor were there any of the marginalia I might expect to have found in a book that had been well-read and studied.

She flipped pages, rereading marginalia on Jennifer Gould with a burgeoning sense of unease.

New York City and its environs had attracted the densest concentration of marginalia, with a region in the southwest corner of North Dakota, and another in Arizona, of no little interest to him.

His voice faded in midsentence as his eye happened to fall on a bit of scribbled marginalia that captured his attention and drew him down into his padded desk chair, where he was soon comparing notes he had made with passages in two open books, absorbed and quite unaware of my presence.

Desperate for any handhold, I would sometimes study her class notes when she was not around, or inspect the marginalia in the books she read, the passages she highlighted.

We decided that hardbacks would prevail over paperbacks unless the paperbacks contained marginalia.

She had searched in many chronicles, had learned to read between the lines and in the marginalia so that she wouldn't discover too late things that she ought to have known, that needed to be woven into the story so that her history of the Wendish people would be complete.