As an aid in your cataloging, here are some sources for deciphering
Latin printing terms and place names.

Enjoy.

Angie
AGSL - UWM


*Sources for Early Latin
Printing Terms*

*and Place Names*

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*1.     **Orbis Latinus*

*2.     **CERL Thesaurus*

*3.     **Cathedral Libraries Catalogue Names of printing towns*

*4.     **Glossary of Common Latin Terms Found in Imprints of Early
Printed Books*

*5.     **MODERN EQUIVALENTS OF LATIN PLACE-NAMES in early printed books*

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*1) Orbis Latinus*

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html



File Description:

    Title: Orbis Latinus

    Editor: Graesse, Dr. J. G. Th.

    Publisher:The Electronic Text Service; Columbia University

    ID: Graesse

    Accessible to all WWW users.



Original Source:

    Title: Orbis Latinus (2nd edition)

    Author: Dr. J. G. Th. Graesse

    Publisher: Richard Carl Schmidt & Co.; Berlin 1909



Electronic Revision History:

    July 1996

    Name: Karen Green, ETS

    text scanned and corrected (minimally);

    HTML markup added;

    links added for cross-referencing and abbreviations





*2) CERL Thesaurus*

http://cerl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ct/



The CERL Thesaurus contains names of persons, corporate bodies, places
and printers/publishers recorded in books or other material printed
during the hand-press era (1450 - ca. 1830). Authority files contributed
by CERL member libraries and other libraries/projects concentrating on
the history of the book are brought together and made searchable in one
single system. The CERL Thesaurus currently comprises 679,701 records
(last update: 1th October 2007).





*3) Cathedral Libraries Catalogue Names of printing towns*

http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/cathlibs/towns/



This list gives English or other vernacular forms for the Latin names of
printing towns as found in early printed books. There are also some
references for early spellings of vernacular forms of names. This is a
working document of the Cathedral Libraries Catalogue and is not
intended to replace the lists in Orbis Latinus, Brunet, etc.



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*4) Glossary of Common Latin Terms Found in Imprints of Early Printed Books*

http://net.lib.byu.edu/~catalog/people/rlm/latin/names.htm



by Robert L. Maxwell,  Special Collections and Ancient Languages
Librarian, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University





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*5) MODERN EQUIVALENTS OF LATIN PLACE-NAMES in early printed books*

http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/latin_names.htm