ABBREVIATIONS
| Abhandl. | Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, begründet von M. Cantor, Teubner, Leipzig. |
| Addit. | Additional Manuscripts in the British Museum. |
| Amplon. | Manuscript collection of Amplonius Ratinck at Erfurt. |
| AN | Ante-Nicene Fathers, American Reprint of the Edinburgh edition, in 9 vols., 1913. |
| AS | Acta sanctorum. |
| Beiträge | Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters, ed. by C. Baeumker, G. v. Hertling, M. Baumgartner, et al., Münster, 1891-. |
| BL | Bodleian Library, Oxford. |
| BM | British Museum, London. |
| BN | Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. |
| Borgnet | Augustus Borgnet, ed. B. Alberti Magni Opera omnia, Paris, 1890-1899, in 38 vols. |
| Brewer | Fr. Rogeri Bacon Opera quaedam hactenus inedita, ed. J. S. Brewer, London, 1859, in RS, XV. |
| Bridges | The Opus Maius of Roger Bacon, ed. J. H. Bridges, I-II, Oxford, 1897; III, 1900. |
| CCAG | Catalogus codicum astrologorum Graecorum, ed. F. Cumont, W. Kroll, F. Boll, et al., 1898. |
| CE | Catholic Encyclopedia. |
| CFCB | Census of Fifteenth Century Books Owned in America, compiled by a committee of the Bibliographical Society of America, New York, 1919. |
| CLM | Codex Latinus Monacensis (Latin MS at Munich). |
| CSEL | Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum, Vienna, 1866-. |
| CU | Cambridge University (used to distinguish MSS in colleges having the same names as those at Oxford). |
| CUL | Cambridge University Library. |
| DNB | Dictionary of National Biography. |
| EB | Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition. |
| EETS | Early English Text Society Publications. |
| EHR | English Historical Review. |
| ERE | Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, ed. J. Hastings et al., 1908-. |
| HL | Histoire Littéraire de la France. |
| HZ | Historische Zeitschrift, Munich, 1859-. |
| Kühn | Medici Graeci, ed. C. J. Kühn, Leipzig, 1829, containing the works of Galen, Dioscorides, etc. |
| MG | Monumenta Germaniae. |
| MS | Manuscript. |
| MSS | Manuscripts. |
| Muratori | Rerum Italicarum scriptores ab anno aerae christianae 500 ad 1500, ed. L. A. Muratori, 1723-1751. |
| NH | C. Plinii Secundi Naturalis Historia (Pliny’s Natural History). |
| PG | Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus, series graeca. |
| PL | Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus, series latina. |
| PN | The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, ed. Wace and Schaff, 1890-1900, 14 vols. |
| PW | Pauly and Wissowa, Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. |
| RS | “Rolls Series,” or Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores, 99 works in 244 vols., London, 1858-1896. |
| TU | Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, ed. Gebhardt und Harnack. |
DESIGNATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Individual manuscripts are usually briefly designated in the ensuing notes and appendices by a single word indicating the place or collection where the MS is found and the number or shelf-mark of the individual MS. So many of the catalogues of MSS collections which I consulted were undated and without name of author that I have decided to attempt no catalogue of them. The brief designations that I give will be sufficient for anyone who is interested in MSS. In giving Latin titles, Incipits, and the like of MSS I employ quotation marks when I know from personal examination or otherwise that the wording is that of the MS itself, and omit the marks where the Latin seems rather to be that of the description in the manuscript catalogue or other source of information. In the following List of Works Frequently Cited are included a few MSS catalogues whose authors I shall have occasion to refer to by name.