BioBib – Abbreviations

Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists

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Abbreviations

The following sigla are used without further explanation:

ACA	Archivo de la Corona d’Aragon/Arxiu de la Corona d’Aragon
ADB	Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
AHC	Annuarium historiae conciliorum
AHDE	Anuario de Historia del Derecho español
AHP	Archivum historiae pontificiae
AJLH	American Journal of Legal History
AKKR	Archiv für katholisches Kirchenrecht
AS	Acta Sanctorum
ASD	Annali di storia del diritto
BAV	Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
BAV (DVL)	Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Digital Vatican Library (online)
BBKL	Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon
BC	Biblioteca communale
BDHI	Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom
BEC	Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Chartes
Bibl.	Biblioteca / Bibliothek / Bibliothèque
BIDR	Bullettino dell’Istituto di Diritto Romano
BISM	Bullettino dell’Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo e Archivio Muratoriano
BL	British Library
BM	Bibliothèque municipale
BMCL	Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law, New series
BN(F)	Bibliothèque nationale (de France) / Biblioteca nazionale
BSB	Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
CALMA	C.A.L.M.A., Compendium auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi (500-1500)
Cat. gén.	Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France (Départements, octavo series, unless otherwise indicated)
CCL	Corpus Christianorum, Series latina
CCCM	Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio mediaevalis
CERL Thesaurus	Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL), Thesaurus (online only)
CHR	Catholic Historical Review
CID	Cuadernos informativos de derecho histórico publico, procesal y de la navigación
Clavis	E. Dekkers, Clavis patrum latinorum, ed. 2
CMH	Cambridge Medieval History
COD	Conciliorum œcumenicorum decreta, ed. Centro di Documentazione . . . (COD3 = ed. 3)
COGD	Conciliorum oecumenicorum generaliumque decreta
CSEL	Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum
DA	Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters
DBE	Diccionario Biográfico Español
DBI	Dizionario biografico degli Italiani
DDC	Dictionnaire de droit canonique
DGI	Dizionario biografico dei giuristi italiani (XII-XX secolo)
DHEE	Diccionario de historia eclesiástica de España
DHGE	Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques
DHJF	Dictionnaire historique des juristes français: XIIe-XXe siècle, ed. 2
DMA	Dictionary of the Middle Ages
DNB	Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Dolezalek	Dolezalek, Manuscripta juridica (online)
DThC	Dictionnaire de théologie catholique
Du Cange	Du Cange, Favre, Henschel, Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis
EHR	English Historical Review
edit16	Censimento nazionale delle edizioni italiane del XVI secolo (online)
EncD	Enciclopedia del diritto
GC	Gallia christiana
HDIE	Histoire du droit et des institutions de l’Église en Occident
HJb	Historische Jahrbuch
HLF	Histoire littéraire de la France
HRG	Handwörterbuch zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte
HZ	Historische Zeitschrift
IRMAe	Ius romanum medii aevi
JEH	Journal of Ecclesiastical History
JK, JE, JL	Jaffé, Regesta pontificum romanorum . . . ed. secundam curaverunt F. Kaltenbrunner (JK: an. ?–590), P. Ewald (JE: an. 590–882), S. Loewenfeld (JL: an. 882–1198)
JMH	Journal of Medieval History
JTS	Journal of Theological Studies
Jöcher	C. Jöcher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon
LC	Library of Congress (U.S.A.)
LHR	Law and History Review
LMA	Lexikon des Mittelalters
LThK	Lexikon für Theologie unk Kirche (LThK2 = ed. 2)
Mansi	Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio
Mazzatinti	G. Mazzatinti (continued by A. Sorbelli et al.), Inventari dei manoscritti delle biblioteche d’Italia
MEFR	Mélanges de l’École française de Rome: Moyen âge – Temps modernes
MGH	Monumenta Germaniae historica
	• Auct. ant
	• Capit.
	• Conc.
	• Const.
	• D - DD
	• Dt. Chron.
	• Epp.
	• Epp. saec. XIII
	• Epp. sel.
	• Fontes iuris
	• Ldl
	• LL
	• LL nat. Germ.
	• Poetae
	• SS
	• SS rer. Germ.
	• SS rer. Germ. N.S.
	• SS rer. Lang.
MIC	Monumenta iuris canonici (cited as MIC A:1, where the letter is the subseries and the number the volume in the subseries)
	• Series A: Corpus Glossatorum
	• Series B: Corpus Collectionum
	• Series C: Subsidia
MIÖG	Mitteilungen des Instituts für österreichische Geschichts-forschung
Mirabile	Archivio digitale della cultura latina medievale, an aggregative database, available by subscription, that includes the CALMA database and Medievo latino, a databse of of SISMEL (Società internazionale per lo Studio del Medievo Latino)
NA	Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde
NCE	The New Catholic Encyclopedia
NDB	Neue Deutsche Biographie
NDI	Novissimo Digesto Italiano
ÖAKR	Österreichisches Archiv für Kirchenrecht
ODNB	Oxford Dicionary of National Biography
PG	Migne, Patrologia graeca
PL	Migne, Patrologia latina
Potth.	Potthast, Regesta pontificum romanorum
QF	Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken
QL	Schulte, Quellen und Literatur
RB	Revue bénédictine
RDC	Revue de droit canonique
REDC	Revista español de derecho canónico
RET	Revista español de teologia
RG	Rechtsgeschichte: Zeitschrift des Max-Planck Instituts für europäische Rechtsgeschichte
RHD	Revue historique de droit français et étranger (4th series unless otherwise indicated)
RHE	Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique
RHM	Römische historische Mitteilungen
RIDC	Rivista internazionale di diritto comune
RIS2	Muratori, Rerum italicarum scriptores: Raccolta degli storici italiani, nuova edizione
RQ	Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte
RS	Rolls Series (Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores)
RSCI	Rivista di storia della Chiesa in Italia
RSDI	Rivista di storia del diritto italiano
RTAM	Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale
SCH	Studies in Church History
SDHI	Studia et documenta historiae et iuris
Settimane Spoleto	Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull’Alto Medioevo
SG	Studia Gratiana
Stud. Greg.	Studi Gregoriani
ThLL	Thesaurus linguae latinae
TRE	Theologische Realenzyklopädie
TRG	Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis
WorldCat	WorldCat (union catalogue of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide) (online)
ZKG	Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte
ZRG Ger. Abt.	Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Abteilung
ZRG Kan. Abt.	Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kanonistische Abteilung
ZRG Rom. Abt.	Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Romanistische) Abteilung

The following short forms are used throughout:

In references to standard editions and to commonly known general works on the sources and literature of Roman and canon law in the Middle Ages – such as Savigny, Maassen, Schulte, Fournier-Le Bras, Kuttner’s, Repertorium, Van Hove’s Prolegomena (2nd ed.), the Monumenta iuris canonici, etc. – only a shortened title will be given, without bibliographical detail. The Proceedings of the International Congresses of Medieval Canon Law will be referred to as (e.g.): Proceedings Boston 1965. E.g.:

Savigny, Geschichte 6.71–98

Schulte, QL 2.313 n.5

Kuttner, Repertorium 435

M. Bertram, ‘Kanonistische Quaestionensammlungen von Bartholomaeus Brixiensis bis Johannes Andreae’, Proceedings Cambridge 1984 (MIC C:8; Città del Vaticano 1988) 265–281

For the serial publications of the great academies:

Abh. Akad. . . . followed by name of city, e.g. Berlin, München, etc. = Abhandlungen der . . . preussischen, bayerischen, etc. Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische Klasse.

Similarly for Mémoires, Memorie, Proceedings, Rendiconti, Sitzungsberichte, etc. the abridged form is always understood as referring to the series covering philosophy and the humanities where several classes or sections exist in a single academy; e.g.

Mém. Acad. Inscr.

Proceed. Brit. Acad.

Rendic. Istit. Lombardo

Sb. Akad. Wien

In addition to the above, the following short forms are used:

Belloni, Professori giuristi = A. Belloni, Professori giuristi a Padova nel secolo XV: Profili bio-bibliografici e cattedre (Frankfurt 1986)

Juristas universales = Juristas universales, Rafael Domingo Oslé ed., 4 vols. (Madrid 2004)

Kuttner, Catalogue = S. Kuttner et al. (ed.), A Catalogue of Canon and Roman Law Manuscripts in the Vatican Library, 2 vols. (Studi e Testi 322, 328; Città del Vaticano 1986–87)

Lange, Glossatoren = Hermann Lange, Römisches Recht im Mittelalter: 1 Die Glossatoren (München 1997)

Lange/Kriechbaum, Komentatoren = Hermann Lange and Maximiliane Kriechbaum, Römisches Recht im Mittelalter: 2 Die Kommentatoren (München 2007)

Tractatus (Lyon 1549) (followed by vol. and folio in the form ‘15.22ra’) = Tractatus ex variis juris interpretibus, 18 vols. (Lyon 1549)

Tractatus (Venezia 1584) (followed by vol. and folio in the form ‘15.22ra’) = Tractatus universi juris, duce, & auspice Gregorio XIII . . . in unum congesti, 22 vols. (Venezia 1584–1586). In the text this is sometimes referred to as ‘TUI 1584’.

In citations to manuscripts, the city is spelled out in full, using the official spelling of the name. This is followed by a standardized abbreviation of the name of the library, followed by the shelfmark of the manuscript. The name of the library spelled out in full may be found in the Index of Manuscript Libraries, together with any links that we have to the library’s online description and/or catalogue.