Abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes
"Sigla" redirects here. For the village in Poland, see Sigła.
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Scribal abbreviation" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(March 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Malmesbury Abbey early 15th-century Latin Vulgate Bible manuscript of Book of Numbers 1:24-26 with many abbreviations, 1407. Lines 2 and 3 with expansions between [..]: g[u]lor[um] a vigi[n]ti a[n]nis [e]t sup[ra] o[mn]es qui ad bella p[ro]cedere[n]t: ((verse 25)) q[ua]dragi[n].Scribal abbreviation "iħm xp̄m ⁊ dm̄" for "ihesum christum et deum" in a manuscript of the Epistle to the Galatians
Scribal abbreviations or sigla (singular: siglum) are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse.
In modern manuscript editing (substantive and mechanical) sigla are the symbols used to indicate the source manuscript (e.g. variations in text between different such manuscripts).
and 26 Related for: Scribal abbreviation information
Scribalabbreviations or sigla (singular: siglum) are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin...
specific monograms and mere scribalabbreviations somewhat fluid. The name Jesus, spelt ΙΗΣΟΥΣ in Greek capitals, has the abbreviations IHS (also written JHS...
An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning "short") is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism...
abbreviations List of Latin phrases Scribalabbreviation "United States Government Printing Office Style Manual, Chapter 9: Abbreviations and Letter Symbols" (PDF)...
originally written over an omitted letter or several letters as a scribalabbreviation, or "mark of suspension" and "mark of contraction", shown as a straight...
just one of many kinds of conventional scribalabbreviation, used to reduce the time-consuming workload of the scribe and save on valuable writing materials...
other symbols. Ꝥ (minuscule: ꝥ), or Þ (thorn) with stroke was a scribalabbreviation common in the Middle Ages. It was used for Old English: þæt (Modern...
₭ : Lao kip Ꝃ ꝃ, Ꝅ ꝅ : Various forms of K were used for medieval scribalabbreviations 1 Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows...
14th century and was replaced by ⟨th⟩. Anachronistic usage of the scribalabbreviation (þe, "the") has led to the modern mispronunciation of thorn as ⟨y⟩...
various forms of chi-rho monogram. In English, "X" was first used as a scribalabbreviation for "Christ" in 1100; "X'temmas" is attested in 1551, and "Xmas"...
quasi-decimal system analogous to Greek numerals. A titlo is also used as a scribalabbreviation mark for frequently written long words and also for nouns describing...
science) Suspend and resume (disambiguation) Suspension, a form of scribalabbreviation in medieval manuscripts Suspended animation Suspended meal This disambiguation...
signified Thanatos, the Greek deity of death. Scribalabbreviation – Abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes Mednikarova, Iveta (2001). "The Use of...
with a scribalabbreviation that put a small "u" over the letter thorn: þͧ (later, in printing presses that lacked this letter, this abbreviation was sometimes...
(from Latin: brevis, short, and Greek grapho, to write) is a type of scribalabbreviation in the form of an easily written symbol, character, flourish or stroke...
(girl) Ꝑ ꝑ, Ꝓ ꝓ, Ꝕ, ꝕ : Various forms of P were used for medieval scribalabbreviations Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859...
respectively) £ : pound sign Ꝉ ꝉ : Forms of L were used for medieval scribalabbreviations Ł or ł, "L with stroke" used in Polish and many neighbouring languages...
holds that the sign grew out of the Spanish and Spanish American scribalabbreviation "ps" for pesos. A study of late 18th- and early 19th-century manuscripts...
patterns – such as VXL for 45, instead of the usual XLV — may be due to scribal errors, or the writer's lack of familiarity with the system, rather than...
sign is first attested in business correspondence in the 1770s as a scribalabbreviation "ps", referring to the Spanish American peso, that is, the "Spanish...
through descender Ꝑ (minuscule: ꝑ) used in the medieval period as a scribalabbreviation for per, par-, por-. The minuscule form, U+1D7D ᵽ LATIN SMALL LETTER...
the Old English letter thorn, ⟨þ⟩. During the Tudor period, the scribalabbreviation for þe was þͤ or þᵉ ; here, the letter ⟨þ⟩ is combined with the letter...
form, the mark was an open C crossed by a vertical line or two, a scribalabbreviation for capitulum, the Latin word for chapter. David Sacks (2003). "K...
phonetic transcription Ꝋ ꝋ : Forms of O were used for medieval scribalabbreviations ∅ : empty set symbol º : Masculine ordinal indicator Calligraphic...
as abbreviations, such as sov for sovereign. The /ʌ/ sound is spelled ⟨o⟩, not ⟨u⟩, before the letter ⟨v⟩. This originated with a mediaeval scribal practice...
beneventan script the macron abbreviation featured a dot above. Lost variants such as r rotunda, ligatures and scribalabbreviation marks are omitted; long...
Global Information
