Just a quick list of exceedingly helpful codices and lexicons for Latin Abbreviations. Most of these are for medieval uncial scripts, but many if not most of the abbreviations carried over into the printing of the 15th through 17th centuries. Of the four listed, Cappelli is probably the most exhaustive.

Chassant, Alphonse, Dictionnaire des abreviations latines et francaises usitees dans les inscriptions lapidaires et metalliques, les manuscrits et les chartes du Moyen Âge. Hildesheim, Georg Olms, 1965.

 Cappelli, Adriano. Lexicon abbreviaturarum : dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane usate nelle carte e codici specialmente del Medio-Evo, riprodotte con oltre 14000  segni incisi, con l’aggiunta di uno studio sulla brachigrafia medioevale, un prontuario di sigle epigrafiche, l’antica numerazione romana ed arabica ed i segni indicanti monete, pesi, misure, etc. / per cura di Adriano Cappelli. Milano : Hoepli, c1990.

Lindsay, W. M. Notae latinae, an account of abbreviation in Latin MSS. of the early minuscule period (c. 700-850) by W. M. Lindsay. With a supplement (Abbreviations in Latin MSS. of 850 to 1050) by D. Bains. Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1963.

Pelzer, Auguste, Abreviations latines medievales. Supplement au Dizionario di abbreviature latine, ed. italiane, de Adriano Cappelli. Louvain, Publications Universitaires; Paris, Beatrice-Nauwelaerts, 1966.

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