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sigla
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sigla [ˈsɪglə]
n
(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) the list of symbols used in a book, usually collected together as part of the preliminaries
[Latin: plural of siglum, diminutive of signum sign]

sigla - The words for signs and abbreviations representing words.
See also related terms for signs.


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in his apparatus criticus sometimes subsumes readings of A (and/or u, E, S; [alpha]; the latter siglum indicates agreement of all or most of the codices A-ES) under [zeta], which strictly speaking is a collective siglum indicating the readings of 'codices deteriores' and of early printed editions.
In his preface, Griggio provides a census of the nearly 250 codices that contain letters to or from Barbaro, each with its own siglum denoting city and library where the manuscript is housed.
 
 
 
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