| Aaron | Aar. |
| Abraham | Ab. |
| Adam | Ad. |
| Adelbert | Adlb. |
| Adolf | Adf. |
| Adrian | Adr. |
| Aegidius | Aeg. |
| Albert | Alb. |
| Albrecht | Albr. |
| Alexander, Alexandre | Alex. |
| Alfonso | Alf. |
| Alfred | Alfr. |
| Alphonse | Alph. |
| Amadeus | Amad. |
| Ambrose, Ambrosius | Amb. |
| Anastasius | Anast. |
| Andreas, Andrew | And. |
| Anna | A.. |
| Anselm | Ans. |
| Anthony, Antoine, Anton | Ant. |
| Archibald | Arch. |
| Arnold | Arn. |
| Arthur | Arth. |
| August, Augustus | A: |
| Augusta | A: a |
| Augustin | A: in |
| Augustinus | A: inus |
| Aurelius | Aur. |
| Austin | Aust. |
| Baldwin | Bald. |
| Balthasar | Balt. |
| Baptiste | Bapt. |
| Barbara | Barb. |
| Barnard | Barn. |
| Bartholomäus, Bartholomew | Bart. |
| Basilius | Bas. |
| Beatrice | B.. |
| Beatrix | Bx. |
| Belinda | Bel. |
| Benedict | Bened. |
| Benjamin | B: |
| Bernard | Bern. |
| Bernhard | Bernh. |
| Barthold | Brth. |
| Bertram | Bert. |
| Boniface | Boni. |
| Bruno | Bru. |
| Burchard | Bch. |
| Cadwallader | Cadwal. |
| Caleb | Clb. |
| Calvin | Calv. |
| Camillus | Cam. |
| Camilla | Cma. |
| Carl, Carlo, Charles | C: |
| Caroline | Caro. |
| Casimir | Cas. |
| Caspar | Cap. |
| Catharine | Cath. |
| Charlotte | C.. |
| Christian | Chr. |
| Christlieb | Chli. |
| Christoph | Cp. |
| Clarence | Clar. |
| Claude | Cl. {120} |
| Claudius | Cls. |
| Clemens, Clement | Clem. |
| Conrad | Conr. |
| Constantin | Const. |
| Cordelia | Cord. |
| Cornelius | Corn. |
| Crispian, Crispin, Crispus | Crsp. |
| Daniel | Dan. |
| David | D: |
| Deborah | Deb. |
| Detlev | Dtl. |
| Delia | D. |
| Diana | Di. |
| Dietrich | Dt. |
| Dominicus | Dom. |
| Donald | Don. |
| Dorothy | Dor. |
| Duncan | Dunc. |
| Ebenezer | Eb. |
| Eberhard | Ebh. |
| Edgar | Edg. |
| Edmund | Edm. |
| Edouard, Eduard, Edward | E: |
| Edwin | Edn. |
| Egbert | Egb. |
| Ehrenfried | Ehrfr. |
| Elias | El. |
| Elijah | Elij. |
| Elizabeth | E.. |
| Emanuel | Em. |
| Ephraim | Eph. |
| Erdmann | Erdm. |
| Erhard | Erh. |
| Eric, Erich | Er. |
| Ernest, Ernst | Ern. |
| Eugen, Eugene | Eug. |
| Eusebius | Eus. |
| Eustace, Eustachius | Eust. |
| Evelina | Evel. |
| Ezechiel | Ezech. |
| Ezra | Ez. |
| Fanny | F.. |
| Felix | Fel. |
| Ferdinand | Fd. |
| Fitz William | Fitz W. |
| Flavius | Flav. |
| Florence | Flo. |
| Francis | Fs. |
| Frances | Fcs. |
| Frank | Fk. |
| Franz | Fz. |
| Frederic, Friedrich | F: |
| Fürchtegott | Fchtg. |
| Gabriel | Gbr. |
| Gamaliel | Gam. |
| Gasparo | Gsp. |
| Gaston | Gast. |
| Gebhard | Gbh. |
| Geoffrey | Geof. |
| Georg, George, Georges | G: |
| Gerald | Ger. |
| Gerhard | Gh. |
| Gershom | Gersh. |
| Gertrude | Gert. |
| Giacomo | Giac. |
| Giam Battista | Gi. bat. |
| Gian Giacomo | Gi. Giac. |
| Gian Pietro | Gi. P: |
| Gideon | Gid. |
| Gilbert | Gilb. |
| Giovanni | Gi. |
| Giuseppe | Giu. |
| Godfrey | Godf. |
| Gottfried | Gf. |
| Gotthard | Gthd. |
| Gotthelf | Ghf. |
| Gotthold | Ghld. |
| Gottlieb | Gli. |
| Gottlob | Glo. |
| Gottschalk | Gk. |
| Grace | G.. |
| Gregor, Gregory | Greg. |
| Guillaume | Guil. |
| Günther | Gth. |
| Gustav, Gustavus | Gst. |
| Hannah | Ha. |
| Hans | Hs. |
| Harold | Har. |
| Harriet | Ht. |
| Hartmann | Htm. |
| Hartwig | Htw. |
| Hector | Hect. |
| Hedwig | Hedw. |
| Heinrich, Henri, Henry | H: |
| Helen | H.. |
| Herbert | Herb. |
| Herrmann | Hm. |
| Hezekiah | Hzk. |
| Hieronymus | Hi. |
| Hippolyte | Hip. |
| Horace | Hor. |
| Hubert | Hub. |
| Hugh | Hu. {121} |
| Hugo | Hg. |
| Humphrey | Hum. |
| Ignatius, Ignaz | Ign. |
| Immanuel | Im. |
| Innocenz | Inn. |
| Isaac | I: |
| Isabella | I.. |
| Israel | Isr. |
| Jacob | Jac. |
| Jakob | Jak. |
| James | Ja. |
| Jane | J.. |
| Jasper | Jasp. |
| Jedediah | Jed. |
| Jemima | Jem. |
| Jeremiah, Jeremias, Jeremy | Jer. |
| Joachim | Joac. |
| Joel | Jl. |
| John, Johann, Jean, masc. | J: |
| Johannes | Js. |
| Jonathan | Jona. |
| Joseph | Jos. |
| Josepha | Josa. |
| Josephine | Jose. |
| Joshua | Josh. |
| Jószef | Jósz. |
| Jules, Julius | Jul. |
| Julia | Jla. |
| Juliet | Jlt. |
| Justin, Justus | Just. |
| Karl | K: |
| Kaspar | Ksp. |
| Katharine | K.. |
| Konrad | Konr. |
| Laurence | Laur. |
| Lawrence | Lawr. |
| Lazarus | Laz. |
| Leberecht, Lebrecht | Lbr. |
| Lemuel | Lem. |
| Leonard | Leon. |
| Leonhard | Lh. |
| Leopold | Lp. |
| Lewis | Lew. |
| Louis, Ludwig | L: |
| Louise | L.. |
| Lobegott | Lbg. |
| Lorenz | Lor. |
| Lothar | Lth. |
| Louisa | L.. |
| Ludolf | Ldf. |
| Malachi | Mal. |
| Marcus | Mcs. |
| Margaret | Marg. |
| Maria | Mar. |
| Marc, Mark | M: |
| Martin | Mt. |
| Mary | M.. |
| Mathäus, Matthew | Mat. |
| Matilda | Mta. |
| Maurice | Maur. |
| Max, Maximilian | Mx. |
| Mehitabel | Mehit. |
| Melchior | Mlch. |
| Michael | Mich. |
| Moriz | Mor. |
| Moses | Mos. |
| Nancy | N.. |
| Napoleon | Nap. |
| Nathan | Nat. |
| Nathaniel | Natl. |
| Nehemiah | Neh. |
| Nepomuk | Np. |
| Nicodemus | Nicod. |
| Nicolas, Nicolaus, Nicole | N: |
| Noah | No. |
| Norman | Norm. |
| Obadiah | Ob. |
| Octavius | Oct. |
| Octavia | Octa. |
| Oliver | Ol. |
| Olivia | O.. |
| Orlando | Orl. |
| Oscar | Osc. |
| Oswald | Osw. |
| Ottmar | Ottm. |
| Otto | O: |
| Patrick | Pat. |
| Paul | Pl. |
| Pauline | P.. |
| Peter, Pierre | P: |
| Philip | Ph. |
| Phineas | Phin. |
| Priscilla | Pris. |
| Rachel | Ra. |
| Raimund, Raymond | Rmd. |
| Raphael | Rapl. |
| Rebecca | R.. |
| Reginald | Reg. |
| Reinhard | Rhd. |
| Reinhold | Rhld. |
| Reuben | Reub. {122} |
| Richard | R: |
| Robert | Rob. |
| Rodolph | Rod. |
| Roger | Rog. |
| Roland | Rol. |
| Rudolf | Rud. |
| Rufus | Ruf. |
| Rupert, Ruprecht | Rup. |
| Salomon | Sal. |
| Salvator | Salv. |
| Samuel | S: |
| Sarah | S.. |
| Severen | Sev. |
| Sebastian | Seb. |
| Siegfried | Siegf. |
| Sigismund | Sgsm. |
| Sigmund | Sigm. |
| Simeon, Simon | Sim. |
| Solomon | Sol. |
| Sophia | So. |
| Stanislas | Stan. |
| Stephen | Ste. |
| Susan | Su. |
| Tabitha | Tab. |
| Temperance | Temp. |
| Thaddeus | Thad. |
| Theobald | Thbd. |
| Theodor | Thdr. |
| Theophilus | Thph. |
| Theresa | T.. |
| Thomas, Tomas, Tomaso | T: |
| Tiberius | Tib. |
| Timotheus, Timothy | Tim. |
| Titus | Tit. |
| Tobias, Tobiah | Tob. |
| Traugott | Trg. |
| Ulrich | U: |
| Ursula | U.. |
| Valentine | Val. |
| Veit | Vt. |
| Victor | Vet. |
| Victoria | V.. |
| Vincentius | Vinc. |
| Virginia | Virg. |
| Volkmar | Volkm. |
| Waldemar | Wald. |
| Walther, Walter | Wa. |
| Washington | Wash. |
| Wenzel | Wz. |
| Werner | Wr. |
| William, Willem, Wilhelm | W: |
| Wilhelmina | W.. |
| Winfred | Winf. |
| Winifred | Winif. |
| Woldemar | Wold. |
| Wolfgang | Wolfg. |
| Xaver, Xavier | X: |
| Xenophon | Xen. |
| Xerxes | Xerx. |
| Zacharias, Zachary | Zach. |
| Zebadiah, Zebedee | Zeb. |
| Zechariah | Zech. |
| Zenobia | Z.. |
| Zephaniah | Zeph. |
| A: Augustus. | A.. Anna. |
| B: Benjamin. | B.. Beatrice. |
| C: Charles. | C.. Charlotte. |
| D: David. | D.. Delia. |
| E: Edward. | E.. Elizabeth. |
| F: Frederick. | F.. Fanny. |
| G: George. | G.. Grace. |
| H: Henry. | H.. Helen. |
| I: Isaac. | I.. Isabella. |
| J: John. | J.. Jane. |
| K: Karl. | K.. Katharine. |
| L: Louis. | L.. Louise. |
| M: Matthew. | M.. Mary. |
| N: Nicholas. | N.. Nancy. |
| O: Otto. | O.. Olivia. |
| P: Peter. | P.. Pauline. |
| R: Richard. | R.. Rebecca. |
| S: Samuel. | S.. Sarah. {123} |
| T: Thomas. | T.. Theresa. |
| U: Uriah. | U.. Ursula. |
| V: Victor. | V.. Victoria. |
| W: William. | W.. Wilhelmina. |
| X: Xavier. | |
| Z: Zenas. | Z.. Zenobia. |
Here C: is used both for Charles and Carlo, H: for Henry, Henri, and Heinrich, and so on. Mr. Dewey for greater distinctness advises the following:
Where : and .. is used in English names, use ; and ., for the German form, and ; and ,. for the French.
| abridger | abr. |
| afterwards | aftw. |
| annotater | annot. |
| born | b. |
| collector | col. |
| company | co. |
| commentator | comment. |
| compiler | comp. |
| continuer | contin. |
| died | d. |
| department | dept. |
| editor | ed. |
| Great Britain | Gr. Br. |
| pseudonym | pseud. |
| publisher | pub. |
| superintendent | supt. |
| translator | tr. |
| United States | U. S. |
| veuve | vve. |
| wittwe | wwe. |
| include maiden name of married woman. | ( ) |
| include words or parts of words supplied. | [ ] |
| probably, perhaps | ? after a word. |
Use also the common abbreviations for political, military, professional, and honorary titles.
| Auflage, Ausgabe | Aufl., Ausg. |
| Band | Bd. |
| Bohn’s scientific library | B. S. L. |
| calf | cf. |
| cloth | cl. |
| copyright e. g., 1882 [c. ’80]. | c. |
| edited, -ion, -or | ed. |
| fac-similes | fac-sim. |
| folios | f. |
| group of portraits | gr. of por. |
| Harper’s family library | H. F. L. |
| illustrated, -ions | il. |
| leaves | l. |
| morocco | mor. |
| mutilated | mut. |
| no date of pub. | n. d. |
| no place of pub. | n. p. |
| no title-page | n. t. p. |
| page, pages | p. |
| pamphlet, pamphlets | pam. |
| paper | pap. |
| photographs | phot. |
| portrait of group | por. of gr. |
| portrait, portraits | por. |
| Roxburgh | rxb. |
| sheep | sh. |
| square | sq. |
| tables | tab. |
| title-page | t.-p. |
| title-page mutilated, wanting | t. p. m., t. p. w. |
| unbound | unbd. |
| unpaged | unp. |
| vellum | vel. |
| volume, volumes | v. (in the imprint), Vol. (in the title). [72] |
| with (before words) | w. |
| wanting (after words) | w. |
In notes the abbreviations in all these lists may be used.
[72] I. e., Vol. 1 but 2 v.
| abridged | abr. |
| abbreviations | abbr. |
| account | acct. |
| additional, -ons | add. |
| American | Amer. or Am. |
| analysis, -tical | anal. |
| anonymous | anon. |
| appended, -ix | app. |
| aus dem Lateinischen | a. d. Lat. |
| born | b. |
| biblical, bibliographical, bibliotheca, etc. | bibl. |
| biographical, -phy | biog. |
| book | bk. |
| Christian | Chr. |
| chronological | chron. |
| classical | class. |
| collected, -ions, college, colored | col. |
| commerce, -ial, committee | com. |
| compiled, -er | comp. |
| concerning | conc. |
| containing, contents, continued | cont. |
| copy, copyrighted | cop. |
| corrected | cor. |
| crown, size of book | cr. |
| cyclopædia | cyc. |
| Danish | Dan. |
| died | d. |
| department | dept. |
| domestic | dom. |
| elementary, -ts | elem. |
| encyclopædia | encyc. |
| English | Eng. |
| engraved, -er, -ings | eng. |
| enlarged | enl. |
| fiction | fict. |
| folios, i. e., leaves | ff. |
| from | fr. |
| French | Fr. |
| geography | geog. |
| geology | geol. |
| geometry | geom. |
| German | Germ. |
| gesammelte, gesammt | ges. |
| Geschichte | Ges. or Gesch. |
| grammar, -tical | gram. |
| great | gr. |
| Greek | Gr. |
| half | hf. |
| historical, -y | hist. |
| homœopathic | homœop. |
| herausgegeben | hrsg. |
| illustrated, -ions | il. |
| imperfect | imp. |
| improved | impr. |
| including | incl. |
| increased | incr. |
| intorno | int. |
| introduction, -ory | introd. |
| Italian | Ital. |
| juvenile | juv. |
| Latin | Lat. |
| library | lib. |
| literary, -ture | lit. |
| medical, -ine | med. |
| memoir | mem. |
| miscellaneous | misc. |
| manuscript, -ts | ms., mss. |
| national, natural | nat. |
| new series | n. s. |
| nouvelle | nouv. |
| number, -s | no., nos. |
| oblong | obl. |
| preface, -ed, prefixed | pref. |
| pseudonym, -ous | ps. |
| part | pt. |
| published, -er | pub. |
| recensuit, record | rec. |
| relating, relative | rel. |
| report | rept. |
| review, revised, -ion | rev. |
| Roman | Rom. |
| Russian | Rus. |
| sämmtlich | sämm. |
| science, scientific | sci. |
| selected, -ions | sel. |
| separate | sep. |
| series | s. or ser. |
| small | sm. |
| society | soc. |
| supplement, -ary, -ing | sup. |
| Swedish | Swed. |
| theology | theol. |
| transactions | trans. |
| translated, -or, traduit, tradotto, etc. | tr. |
| übersetzt | übers, |
| und | u. |
| vocabulary | vocab. |
| von | v. |
| van to be given in full. | |
| in, contained in | ( ) {125} |
| words added to title | |
| to and included in, or continued | — |
| matter omitted | ... |
| probably, perhaps | ? |
| end of line on title-page | | |
| transition to another title-page | || |
| vo, mo, to, in octavo, duodecimo, quarto | º |