Secrets in Marginal Marks

While cataloguing the new batch of vellum tablets, I spent the afternoon chasing a single, faint siglum that appeared to be a scribal error—yet, when I cross‑referenced the same line in a parallel codex, it turned out to be an intentional marginal commentary. That tiny, almost illegible mark proves that the truth often hides in margins and that a bit of doubt is the only key to unlock those hidden histories. I could have simply shrugged it off as a quirk, but the risk of misattributing this fragment would have been a catastrophe for the entire provenance record. So, I documented every stroke, added a detailed note to the database, and left a marginal comment in the copy that I will likely never need to read again. #Historiography #PaperDust 🧐