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xxv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS REGULARLY USED IN THIS VOLUME (*) not seen (micro.) microfilm used (photo.) photographs or photocopies used Inc. Incipit Expl. Explicit Gr.-Lat. Greek and Latin ADB Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der römische Welt BAV Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana BL British Library BM British Museum, Catalogue of Printed Books BMC Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum BNF Bibliothèque Nationale (de France), Catalogue des livres imprimés C Copinger CR Copinger-Reichling DBI Dizionario biografico degli italiani DK Deutscher Gesamtkatalog GW Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke H Hain HC Hain-Copinger HCR Hain-Copinger-Reichling HR Hain-Reichling IGI Indice generale degli incunaboli delle biblioteche d’Italia ISTC Incunabula Short Title Catalogue MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica NDB Neue Deutsche Biographie NUC National Union Catalog. Pre-1956 Imprints ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography PG Patrologia Graeca PL Patrologia Latina PW (Pauly-Wissowa-Mittelhaus-Ziegler), Real-Encyclopädie der classischen   Altertumswissenschaft R Reichling STC (Pollard and Redgrave, eds.), Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England VD 16 Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI.Jahrhunderts For American libraries (found in parentheses in the list of editions), the same abbreviations are used as in the Union List of Serials. These abbreviations can be found through the following website provided by the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/marc/organizations/org-search.php ...

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