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Nota bene

( ; plural: ) is the Latin phrase meaning ''note well''. In manuscripts, ''nota bene'' is abbreviated in upper-case as NB and N.B., and in lower-case as n.b. and nb; the editorial usages of ''nota bene'' and ''notate bene'' first appeared in the English style of writing around the year 1711. In Modern English, since the 14th century, the editorial usage of ''NB'' is common to the legal style of writing of documents to direct the reader's attention to a thematically relevant aspect of the subject that qualifies the matter being litigated, whereas in academic writing, the editorial abbreviation ''n.b.'' is a casual synonym for ''footnote''.

In medieval manuscripts, the editorial marks used to draw the reader's attention to a supporting text also are called marks; however, the catalogue of medieval editorial marks does not include the NB abbreviation. The medieval equivalents to the n.b.-mark are anagrams derived from the four letters of the Latin word , thus the abbreviation DM for ("worth remembering") and the typographic index symbol of the ''manicule'' (☞), the little hand that indicates the start of the relevant supporting text. Provided by Wikipedia