Scribal abbreviation
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Scribal abbreviations (sigla [plural], siglum and sigil [singular]) are the abbreviations used by ancient and mediæval scribes writing in Latin and, later, in Greek and Old Norse. Modern manuscript editing (substantive and mechanical) employs sigla as symbols indicating the location of a source manuscript and to identify the copyist(s) of a work.
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See also
- Palaeography
- Claudian letters
- Palaeographic letter variants
- Acronym and initialism
- List of acronyms and initialisms
- List of classical abbreviations
- List of medieval abbreviations
- The abbreviations used in the 1913 edition of Webster's dictionary
- Macron - Non-diacritical usage
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