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A small pointing hand in the margin, drawn to say 'look here'.
Also known as: Printer's fist, Pointing hand in a book, Bishop's fist
A hand with the index finger extended, drawn or printed beside a passage worth noticing. It is the oldest reader's annotation still recognisable at a glance, and it is the ancestor of the pointing cursor.
A small hand with the index finger extended, set in the margin or in the text to draw attention to the passage beside it.
Drawn by hand in the margins of medieval manuscripts by readers marking their own place, then cut as type and printed. A manuscript manicule records what one particular reader thought was important, which makes it evidence about the reader rather than the text.
from the twelfth century
Largely obsolete in book typography and inherited by the interface: the pointing-hand cursor is the same gesture doing the same job.
A reader meeting one in print is almost certainly looking at an old book.
A small drawing of a closed hand with the index finger extended horizontally, usually with a cuff at the wrist.