paratext

Paratext — the framing apparatus of texts (titles, prefaces, footnotes, marginalia) — requires language to operate. Remove language and paratext cannot signal, orient, or comment. The dependency is present-tense and constitutive, not merely facilitative.

colophon is a specific kind of paratext — a brief inscription at the end of a book or manuscript providing production details. A competent speaker calls a colophon 'a type of paratext'. Epochs: paratext (0.15) predates colophon (0.69).

An erratum list is a specific kind of editorial apparatus: a published list of corrections to a text, appended as an adjunct that frames and presents the work to readers (telling them which passages to read as corrected). Paratext's accepted definition names exactly this class — 'titles, covers, marginalia, footnotes, forewords, blurbs, and editorial conventions that frames and presents a text' — and errata notices are a standard member of that apparatus in publishing practice. Law 9: a specific editorial element is a specific kind of paratext. Nearest kind per Law 11e: paratext is the nearest live rung (no 'correction-list' or 'erratum' entry exists); the 'book' it attaches to is the host, not the kind.

Pinned sense (per its accepted definition): the terminal notation a scribe places at a manuscript's conclusion declaring completion — an end-mark and colophon formula. That is a paratextual element at the text's boundary, exactly the family colophon already occupies (colophon INSTANCE_OF paratext accepted); explicit and colophon are the paired opening/closing conventions. It is not a symbolic system (so not a kind of notation) and not a musical label.

Pinned sense (Law 11d): a scholium in its paratextual function is a specific kind of paratext — an appended critical or explanatory note that frames and presents a source text to readers. Paratext's accepted carve is 'the apparatus of titles, covers, marginalia, footnotes, forewords, blurbs, and editorial conventions that frames and presents a text' — a scholium (marginal annotation or appended commentary, per its own accepted definition) is exactly such framing apparatus. Nearest kind (11e): no ladder to paratext is derivable — scholium's existing edges run to commentary (which has no paratext edge) and writing (DEPENDS_ON); marginalia requires physical embedding in the document, which scholium's carve does not require (it allows appended commentary), so marginalia is not the nearer rung. specific→general (Law 9).