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Categories: Palaeography, Medieval literature, Scribes, Latin alphabet, Data compression

scribal abbreviation siglum Abbreviation, Methods of Adriano Cappelli Methods of Abbreviation

A sign, abbreviation, letter, or character standing for words in ancient manuscripts or on coins or medals. Open English WordNet

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A sign, abbreviation, letter, or character standing for words in ancient manuscripts or on coins or medals. Open English WordNet

Scribal abbreviations or sigla are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse. Wikipedia

Abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in Latin, and later in Greek and Old Norse Wikidata

One practice was rendering an over-used, formulaic phrase only as a siglum, e.g. RIP for requiescat in pace ("Rest in Peace"), because the long-form written usage of the abbreviated phrase, itself, was rare. Open English WordNet

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Abbreviation, Methods of, Adriano Cappelli, Methods of Abbreviation, Notae latinae, notational abbreviation, scribal abbreviations, sigla, siglum, ܊, ᷓ, Ꜿ, Ꝉ, Ꝋ, Ꝑ, ꝫ, Ꝭ, Ꝯ, ꝰ, ꝱ, ꝲ, ꝳ, ꝴ, ꝵ, ꝶ, ꝷ, ꝸ

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Scribal abbreviations, sigla, siglum