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* * * *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* * * * * * * *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. * * *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 * * *5) MODERN EQUIVALENTS OF LATIN PLACE-NAMES in early printed books* http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/latin_names.htm