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<p class="MsoNormal">Good afternoon, everyone!<o:p></o:p></p>
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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.<o:p></o:p></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">
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!).<o:p></o:p></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…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for any assistance and insight!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jason LeMay<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jason LeMay<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Assistant Law Librarian for Cataloging and Metadata<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Emory University School of Law | Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:jason.lemay@emory.edu"><span style="color:blue">jason.lemay@emory.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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