Besides the vocalization and accents, the Masoretes developed an impressive system for safeguarding the text that is called the Masorah (Heb. מַסֹּרָה “tradition”) in the narrow sense, written in the margin and below the text. The notes in the side margin are called the Masorah parva, and those in the upper and lower margins the Masorah magna. Beside the marginal notes, also called the Masorah marginalis, there was also a Masorah finalis at the end of the biblical books