Schopenhauer’s Library

Schopenhauer’s Library is a project, on-hold, that aims to publish all of Schopenhauer’s Spanish books that contain personal annotations or marginalia written by the philosopher himself. It currently provides the digital edition of the book Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (1659). This review analyzes the choices made in this digital edition, offering some comparisons with other projects that aim to publish the author’s marginalia. The project will be introduced with some general remarks related to the challenge of representing marginalia in the digital environment. The aims and methods of this digital edition will be explained, with some reflections on the editorial choices made for the representation and presentation of the digital edition. The edition can be considered an interesting example of an attempt to build a user-friendly scholarly digital edition centered on marginalia, promoting a new approach to presenting digitized content as a facilitator for accessing knowledge and performing research.