VMs: More on abbreviations

["legal1@xxxxxxxxx" <legal1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, thought this would be helpful as well:

"Traube claimed that he could date a manuscript based on the system of
abbreviation alone; studying the abbreviations can also help in locating a
manuscript. Cappelli offers a dictionary of about 14,000 marks, and even it
is far from complete, for his work is almost exclusively based upon Italian
manuscripts (further, his dates are not reliable, especially for other
parts of Europe), but the listing is convenient and helpful. There is now a
computer program available ("Abbreviationes," for Macintosh computers)
which presents the whole of Cappelli's dictionary and several others in a
computer searchable database. For dating purposes, one should consult the
technical works of Traube, Lindsay, Bains, Paap, and the new series of
catalogues of "dated and datable" manuscripts (keeping in mind, though,
that systems of abbreviation never actually "die out" completely, so
attempts at dating are more secure on the side of the terminus ante quem
non)."
source: 
http://www.ualberta.ca/~sreimer/ms-course/course/abbrevtn.htm+Tironian+dicti
onary&hl=es&ie=UTF-8


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