<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Jason,<br><br>Given the context of your example referring to Queen Louisa Ulrike, I would guess it is the phase is S[erenissim]ae R[egi]ae M[aiesta]tis.<br><br></div>Good luck,<br><br></div>Patrick<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 1:46 PM, LeMay, Jason T. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason.lemay@emory.edu" target="_blank">jason.lemay@emory.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m hoping someone will have some insight to share on this. I’ve recently begun working on a project cataloging 17<sup>th</sup> and 18<sup>th</sup> century Latin dissertations from Sweden and Germany and have occasionally been running into
abbreviations/contractions on the title pages of some that I’m not sure how to transcribe.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The phrase I keep seeing is “S:ae R:ae M:tis,” where the ae’s are actually ligatures. I know that the colon is often used to abbreviate, and would generally be recorded as a period if it were at the end of each word. But in this case it
seems as though it is being used to create contractions. (an example of what I have can be seen at
<a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Carl_von_Linn%C3%A9_Museum_Sae_Rae_Mtis_Ludovicae_Ulric?id=kccxOB5D4CIC" target="_blank">
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Carl_von_Linn%C3%A9_Museum_Sae_Rae_Mtis_Ludovicae_Ulric?id=kccxOB5D4CIC</a> – thanks to Deborah Leslie for the link!).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For now, I’ve been recording this as “sae. rae. mtis.” based on other samples I’ve viewed in OCLC, but I don’t know how trustworthy those samples are…<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for any assistance and insight!<u></u><u></u></p>
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