![]() In his edition of the works of Aristotle, which appeared in 1483 or 1484, the Milanese Renaissance humanist Francesco Filelfo marked literal and appropriate quotes with oblique double dashes on the left margin of each line. The double quotation mark derives from a marginal notation used in fifteenth-century manuscript annotations to indicate a passage of particular importance (not necessarily a quotation) the notation was placed in the outside margin of the page and was repeated alongside each line of the passage. Our copyists place this sign in the books of the people of the Church, to separate or to indicate the quotations drawn from the Holy Scriptures. Hanc scriptores nostri adponunt in libris ecclesiasticorum virorum ad separanda vel demonstranda testimonia sanctarum Scripturarum. ![]() Isidore of Seville, in his seventh century encyclopedia, Etymologiae, described their use of the Greek diplé (a chevron): The single quotation mark is traced to Ancient Greek practice, adopted and adapted by monastic copyists. ![]()
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