The record interpreter: a collection of abbreviations, Latin words and names used in English historical manuscripts and records

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THE
A COLLECTION OF
ABBREVIATIONS, LATIN WORDS AND NAMES
USED IN
ENGLISH HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS
AND RECORDS.
COMPILED BY
CHARLES TRICE MARTIN,
B.A., F.S.A.,
ASSISTANT-KEEPER OF THE PUBLIC EECOKDS.
LONDON
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PREFACE.
THE present volume is really an amplification of the Appendix
to the ninth edition of Wright's "Court Hand Restored,"
which I brought out in 1879, with the addition of a list of the
abbreviated forms of Latin and French words used in English
records and manuscripts.
Several such lists have been published at various times, the
most used, perhaps, in England being Chassant's "Dictionnaire
des Abreviations," and the list in the fourth volume of the
"Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense," edited by the late Sir
Thomas Duffus Hardy in the series of "Chronicles and
Memorials."
This latter, however, being merely a portion of the preface of
a historical book, is not so well known nor so convenient for use
as if it occurred in a book devoted to information of this class.
I have endeavoured also to justify the printing of another
such list by arranging the abbreviations in such a manner as to
facilitate thefinding the wordwanted. In some lists this is not
easy, unless one knows what the word is in full.
The principle acted on has been as follows : Letters with
marks of contraction attached to them, represented by a single
type, are separated from the same letters printed in the ordinary
IV Preface.
way. The order thus is the letter followed by a letter ; the
letter followed by a sign ; the letter with a sign attached.
For instance, in the vowels the order is as follows:
E
e.g., : ea, eb, ec, to ez ;
then 03, ef, e9, e?;*
then e, e.
N
In the consonants, e.g., : na to nz;
then n3,n, n9, n? ;
then n, fi, ra.
In the letter C, 9 follows 8.
In the letter P, the order of contracted forms is p, p, p\ p.
In the letter Q, : q, q, qj.
Superior letters that is, letters printed above the line are
considered in the arrangement as if printed on the line in the
ordinary way.
In manuscripts such letters often have contraction marks
added tothem,but it isimpossibleto representthese intype,and
an apostrophe has had to do duty instead, as prin1',principalis.
In a manuscript the / would be struck through.
According to the correct principles of writing, the mark of
contraction in a word should be placed over a letter after which
* These marks of contraction, being separate types, are arranged
before those which are attached to the letter, in order to keep such
forms as 9^3, deb3, g9, mo?, p3, sol3, su9, t3 distinct from 0^03,
deb3, g9, mo?, p3, soi3, su9, 13. Unfortunately this was not
apparent at the commencement of the work, so that a few words
(e.g., a9) are printed in their wrong places, but this is corrected at
p. 341.
v
Preface.
a letter is omitted, or over a letter before and after which
letters are omitted, as pr, pater; dna, domina; fct, fecit; but
such forms as pr, dna, fct, sometimes occur, perhaps from care-
lessness on the part of the scribe. Some of these false forms
are inserted, but by no means all, so that if any word occurring
in a manuscript is not at once found in the list, it should be
looked for under some other form containing the same letters
of the alphabet, but with different contractions.
The marks of contraction used in printing are intended to
represent the typical forms of the contractions used in manu-
scripts, and necessarily appear more formal and uniform than
those which may vary with the caprice or carelessness of a
scribe.
Their signification is as follows:
means m or n following the letter thus marked ; e.g. 1=in,
onis=omnis.
*
~ either over a short letter or through a long letter means
the omission of some single letter not m or n, or of more than
one lettereitherafter,orbefore and after, the letterthusmarked.
e.g., a=c, apud, SL8>=alias.
dns=dominus, caria=carmina.
ipe=ipse.
r
*} means er; e.g., in?, inter; TXVL,ferrum.
re; e.g., f),prce.
ir; e.g., ser<uie, sernre.
vi Preface.
means is; e.g., foif,/0-m.
9
us; e.g., ipi , ipsius.
9
os; e.g., p tea,postea.
3 us; e.g., quib3, quibus.
et; e.g., Iic3, licet.
Added to q it means quiet, and sometimes que, or
quce, though these words are more correctly
written
c^.
Occasionally it stands for que, as abs). alsque,
and in some MSS. for m or almost any final
letters; as 003, bonitatem; err3, errorem.
$ rum; e.g., aia?, animarum; bao?, beatorum. It is
sometimes used in the middle of a word, as
compere, cormmpere.
ram; e.g., Alieno^, Alienoram.
ras; e.g., lib?, librae.
res; e.g., Windeso?, Windesores.
ris; e.g., conquesto?, conquestoris; lib?, libris.
9 cum, com, con, or cog; e.g., 9, cum; cp, computed;
9% contra; 9novit, cognovit.
The marks attached to the letter P are as follows
:
p, per,par,por; e.g.,psoa,,persona; 9pet, comparet; pia,,porta.
\},prce,pre; e.g., pses,prcesens; supmus, supremus.
f>,pro; e.g., pceres,proceres; Ipp'e, improprie.
p indicates the omission of almost anyother letters than those
mentioned above ; e.g., pea, postea; pa, pcena; pcta,
puncta; ppa,pnpa.