Abbreviations

This table provides a key to the most commonly used abbreviations in the catalogue.

Abbreviation	Abbreviation	Full reference
Acta Sanctorum		J. Bollandus, Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur … (Antwerp, 1643– )
AHDLMA		Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge, 1– (Paris, 1926– )
AL		Aristoteles Latinus: Codices, ed. G. Lacombe et al., i (Rome, 1939), ii (Cambridge, 1955), Supplementa altera (Bruges, Paris, 1961)
Alexander and Temple		J.J.G. Alexander and E. Temple, Illuminated Manuscripts in Oxford College Libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor Institution (Oxford, 1985)
AO		J. Foster, Alumni Oxonienses, early series, 4 vols. (Oxford, 1891–2)
Bale, Index		John Bale, Index Britanniae scriptorum: John Bale’s Index of British and Other Writers, ed. R. L. Poole and M. Bateson (Oxford, 1902), repr. with an introduction by C. Brett and J. P. Carley (Cambridge, 1990)
BAV		Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
BHG		Bibliotheca hagiographica Graeca, 3rd ed., 3 vols. (Brussels, 1957)
BHL		Bibliotheca hagiographica latina, 2 vols. (Brussels, 1898-1901); suppl. Brussels, 1986
BL		British Library, London
Bloomfield		M. W. Bloomfield et al., Incipits of Latin Works on the Vices and Virtues, 1100–1500 A. D. (Cambridge, Mass., 1979)
BLR		Bodleian Library Record, 1– (Oxford, 1939– )
BMC		British Museum, Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the British Museum, 12 vols. (London, 1908–85)
BnF		Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Boase1		C. W. Boase, Register of the Rectors and Fellows … of Exeter College Oxford with Illustrative Documents and a History of the College, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1879, 1894)
Boase2		C. W. Boase, Registrum collegii Exoniensis …, new edn., OHS, 27 (Oxford, 1894)
Briquet		C-M Briquet, ed. Allan Stevenson, Les filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier des leur apparition vers 1292 jusqu'en 1600: A Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material contributed by a number of scholars, 4 vols. (Amsterdam, 1968)
BRUC		A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Cambridge to 1500 (Cambridge, 1963)
BRUO		A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A. D. 1500 (Oxford, 1957–9)
BRUO 1501–1540		A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford A.D. 1501 to 1540, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1974)
Brou		D. L. Brou, The psalter collects from V–VIth century sources (Three Series), Henry Bradshaw Society 83 (London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1949)
Bruyne		D. de Bruyne, Préfaces de la Bible latine (Namur: Auguste Godenne, 1920)
BSB		Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Bursill-Hall, Census		G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts (Stuttgart, 1981)
Cameron		Angus Cameron, `A List of Old English Texts' in A Plan for the Dictionary of Old English, ed. R. Frank and A. Cameron (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973), pp. 25-306; online: https://tapor.library.utoronto.ca/doe/#listoftext
CBMLC		Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues
CCCM		Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Medievalis
CCSL		Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina
Chevalier	RH, Rep. Hymn.	U. Chevalier, Repertorium hymnologicum, 6 vols (Louvain, 1892-1921)
CIC		Corpus iuris civilis, i: Institutiones, Digesta, ed. P. Krueger and Th. Mommsen (Berlin, 1870, repr. 1954); ii: Codex Justinianus, ed. P. Krueger (Berlin, 1892)
CMA		(E. Bernard), Catalogi manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford, 1697)
CPG		M. Geerard [et al.], Clavis patrum Graecorum, 2nd ed., 6 vols. (Turnhout, 1974-1987)
CPL		E. Dekkers and E. Gaar, Clavis patrum Latinorum, 3rd ed. (Turnhout, 1995)
CPPM		Clavis patristica pseudepigraphorum medii aevi (1990-)
CUL		Cambridge University Library
Dean & Boulton		Ruth J. Dean and Maureen B.M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman literature : a guide to texts and manuscripts (London, 1999)
DNB		Dictionary of National Biography
DIMEV		The Digital Index of Middle English Verse [http://www.dimev.net/]
DSO		Joannis Duns Scoti doctoris subtilis, ordinis minorum opera omnia. Editio nova juxta editionem Waddingi XII tomos continentem a patribus franciscanis de observantia accurate recognita, 26 vols. (1891, repr. 1969)
Emden	BRUC	A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Cambridge to A.D. 1500, 3 vols. (1963)
Emden	BRUO	A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500, 3 vols. (1957-9)
GCS		Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller
Glorieux	Arts.	P. Glorieux, La Faculté des arts et ses maîtres au XIIIe siècle (Paris, 1971)
Glorieux	Théol.	P. Glorieux, Répertoire des maîtres en théologie de Paris au XIIIe siècle, 2 vols. (Paris, 1933-4)
Goy		Rudolf Goy, Die Überlieferung der Werke Hugos von St Viktor (Stuttgart, 1976)
Grégoire		R. Grégoire, Homéliaires liturgiques médiévaux : analyse de manuscrits (Spoleto, 1980)
GW		Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (https://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/)
Heawood		Edward Heawood, Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries. Hilversum (The Paper Publications Society) 1950 (Monumenta Chartae Papyraceae, vol. I).
Hain		L. Hain, Repertorium bibliographicum, 8 vols. (Stuttgart, 1826-38, repr. Milan, 1948), with Supplement by W. A. Copinger (London, 1895-1902; repr. Milan, 1950)
Hutter		I. Hutter, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften (1977-1997)
ICO		Ioannis Chrysostomi Opera Omnia, ed. S. Gelenius (Basel, 1547)
IMEV, IMEV(S), NIMEV		The Index of Middle English Verse (1943), Supplement (1965), A New Index of Middle English Verse (2005)
IPMEP		R.E. Lewis, N.F. Blake, and A.S.G. Edwards, The Index of Printed Middle English Prose (1985)
ISTC		Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (https://data.cerl.org/istc/_search)
Jaffé		P. Jaffé, Regesta pontificum Romanorum : ab condita ecclesia ad annum post Christum natum MCXCVIII, 3rd ed., 3 vols (2016-)
Kaeppeli		T. Kaeppeli, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, 4 vols. (Rome, 1970-1993)
LALME		Angus McIntosh, M. L. Samuels, et al., A Linguistic Atlas of Later Mediaeval English, 4 vols. (Aberdeen, 1988)
Lambert		B. Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana manuscripta. La tradition manuscrite des œuvres de Saint Jérôme (1969-1972)
Lapidge & Sharpe		Michael Lapidge and Richard Sharpe, A bibliography of Celtic-Latin literature 400-1200 (Dublin, 1985)
Laud Exhib		An Exhibition of Manuscripts to Commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the Birth of Archbishop Laud 7 October 1573-10 January 1634 (Oxford, 1973)
MGH		Monumenta Germaniae Historica. For the abbreviations for individual series, and links to online volumes, see http://www.mgh.de/dmgh/linking/kuerzel/
OT		S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson (ed.), The Index of Middle English Prose VIII: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Oxford College Libraries (Cambridge, 1991)
P&A		Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 3 vols. (1966-1973); concordance and supplement by B. Barker-Benfield, 1974
PG		Patrologia Graeca
PL		Patrologia Latina
PLS		Patrologiae cursus completus a J.P. Migne editus et Parisiis anno Domini 1844 excusus. Series Latina : supplementum, ed. A. Hamman, 5 vols. (1958-1974)
Salmon		P. Salmon, Les ‘Tituli psalmorum’ des manuscrits latins (Rome: Abbaye Saint-Jérôme; Vatican City: Libreria Vaticana, 1959)
SAO		Sancti Anselmi Opera, ed. F. S. Schmitt, 6 vols in 2, 1968
SBO		Sancti Bernardi Opera, ed. J. Leclerq, C. H. Talbot, H. M. Rochais, 8 vols. (1957-77)
SChr		Sources chrétiennes (Paris, 1941-)
Schneyer		Johannes Baptist Schneyer [et al.], Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters für die Zeit von 1150-1350, 11 vols. (1969-1990)
Schulte		J. F. Schulte, Die geschichte der quellen und literatur de canonischen rechts von Gratian bis auf die Gegenwart, 3 vols. in 4 (Stuttgart, 1875-1880)
Sharpe	Handlist	R. Sharpe, A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540 (Turnhout, 1997); ‘Additions and Corrections (1997-2001)’, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin 1 (2001), 913-44
SK		D. Schaller and E. Könsgen, Initia carminum Latinorum saeculo undecimo antiquiorum (1977)
Stegmüller	Sent.	F. Stegmüller, Repertorium commentariorum in Sententias Petri Lombardi, 2 vols. (Würzburg, 1947); supplement by V. Doucet, Quaracchi, 1954
Stegmüller		F. Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, 11 vols. (Madrid, 1940 [recte 1950] - 1980) [vols. 8-11 by V. Reinhardt] online: http://www.repbib.uni-trier.de/cgi-bin/rebihome.tcl
Thorndike/Kibre = TK = TKI		L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, A catalogue of incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin, 2nd ed (London, 1963) online: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.31355 electronic edition: http://cctr1.umkc.edu/cgi-bin/medievalacademy
USTC		Universal Short Title Catalogue (https://www.ustc.ac.uk/)
VD16		Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (https://www.bsb-muenchen.de/sammlungen/historische-drucke/recherche/vd-16/)
Verfasserlexikon		Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon, ed. Kurt Ruh et al. (Berlin, 1978-)
Walther = WIC		H. Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris Latinorum (Göttingen, 1959; suppl. 1969)
Watson	Savile	Andrew G. Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London, 1969)
WZIS		Wasserzeichen-Informationssystem (https://www.wasserzeichen-online.de)
Zumkeller		A. Zumkeller, Manuskripte von Werken der Autoren des Augustiner-Eremitenordens in mitteleuropäischen Bibliotheken (1966)