Abbreviationes

Abbreviationes is an electronic database of medieval Latin abbreviations . The project was programmed by Olaf Pluta at the Ruhr University in Bochum and was awarded the German-Austrian University Software Prize in 1993. Originally developed for Apple Macintosh computers, the database can be used over the Internet for a fee. Abbreviationes is, along with Cappellis Lexicon Abbreviaturarum, an important tool in palaeography and is used by numerous research institutes and universities.

See also

• Latin paleography
• List of Latin abbreviations
• Adriano Cappelli

supporting documents

1. ^ Adriano Cappelli: Lexicon Abbreviaturarum. Dizionario di Abbreviature latine ed italiane. Hoepli, edition 1899, 2nd revised edition 1912 (German Leipzig 1901 and 1928), 3rd corrected edition 1929, 4th edition as an anastatic reprint with nine further plates in 1949, also 5th edition in 1954, also 6th edition since 1961 with numerous Publication until 2006. ISBN 88-203-1100-3 .; supplemented by Auguste Pelzer : Abréviations latines médiévales: Supplément au 'Dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane' by Adriano Cappelli. 2nd edition Löwen and Paris 1966.
2. ↑ Abbreviationes online users

literature

• Olaf Pluta: Abbreviationes ™: A Database of Medieval Latin Abbreviations . In: Klaus van Eickels, Ruth Weichselbaumer and Ingrid Bennewitz (eds.): Mediaevistics and New Media . Thorbecke, Ostfildern, 2004, pp. 183-189, ISBN 3-7995-0321-8 .

The most important Latin abbreviations for beginners are shown at

• Udo Kindermann , Introduction to Latin Literature in Medieval Europe, Turnhout 1998; Pp. 154-163.

Web links

• Abbreviationes
• Database information system (DBIS) of the Regensburg University Library
• Jürgen Scriba: Manuscripts: Nunc computerandum est. Microprocessor meets the Middle Ages: a program helps specialists read manuscripts . In: Focus , No. 13 (1994).
• Medieval shortening systems , Horst Enzensberger