Anderson, Diane Warne: The Medieval Manuscripts of the Cologne Cathedral Library. Vol I, Ms. 1-100. By Diane Warne Anderson and Jonathan Black, edited by Diane Warne Anderson. Collegeville 1995.
| abp. | archbishop | |
| abt. | abbot | |
| BM | bibliothèque municipale, biblioteca municipale, etc. | |
| BN | bibliothèque nationale, biblioteca nazionale, etc. | |
| bp. | bishop | |
| c | century (e.g., "13c") | |
| c. | circa (before dates) | |
| cap. | capitulum, capitula, chapter(s) | |
| (Coloph) | colophon (in contents entries) | |
| (Com) | comments (in contents entries) | |
| d. | died | |
| (Ed) | edition(s) (in contents entries) | |
| ed. | edition, edited | |
| (Expl) | explicit (in contents entries) | |
| expl. mut. | explicit mutilatus | |
| f., ff. | folium, folia | |
| FC | front cover | |
| FEL | front endleaf | |
| FIC | front inside cover | |
| fl. | floruit, flourished | |
| FPD | front pastedown | |
| (Inc) | incipit (in contents entries) | |
| inc. mut. | incipit mutilatus | |
| mm | millimeters | |
| ms., mss. | manuscript(s) | |
| OCist | Cistercian Order | |
| OM | Fransiscan Order | |
| (Omss) | other manuscripts (in contents entries) | |
| OP | Dominican Order | |
| OSB | Benedictine Order | |
| p., pp. | page(s) | |
| (Prol) | prologue, preface (in contents entries) | |
| Ps., Pss. | Psalm(s) | |
| r | recto | |
| ra, rb (etc.) | recto first column, recto second column (etc.) | |
| RC | rear cover | |
| REL | rear endleaf | |
| RIC | rear inside cover | |
| RPD | rear pastedown | |
| [Sal] | salutation (for letters; text of salutation usually omitted) | |
| seq., seqq. | and following page(s) | |
| SJ | Society of Jesus | |
| (Tit) | titulus (in contents entries) | |
| trans. | translator, translated | |
| UB | Universitätsbibliothek | |
| v | verso | |
| va, vb (etc.) | verso first column, verso second column (etc.) | |
| < > | (letters or words supplied by cataloguer, not in ms. or illegible) | |
| (!) | (sic: word or phrase found thus in ms.) |
Common orthographical variants not noted with "(!)" sign:
ae/e/oe
y/i
u/o
def-/dif-
h/(no h)
ci/ti
(double/single consonants)
agustinus/augustinus
mt/nt
mpn/mn
aut/aud, quid/quit, caput/capud (etc.)
con/com
Capitalization in transcriptions: First letter of words capitalized if clearly so appearing in ms.; also words Deus and Iesus Christus; otherwise lower case letters are used. Greek letters transcribed as majuscules, as they appear in the mss., except no distinction can be made in our type font between the square capital form for alpha and the uncial form
Gloss-text incipits and explicits: Often more than one incipit for a gloss is given, showing a first and second section of the gloss, in order to provide a more useful incipit; however, usually only the last appearing gloss text is given for the explicit, unless more than one explicit can be distinguished on the last page.