Glossary

Latinized names of people and places

 

  • Reinhard Bodenmann.  “L’auteur et son nom de plume: Autopsie d’un choix.” In L’Auteur á la Renaissance: L’altro que è in noi, ed by Rosanna Gorris Camos and Alexandre Vanautgaerden, Pp. 19-63. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009.
     
  • J. G. Th. Graesse. Orbis Latinus, Berlin: Schmidt, 1909.

Orbis Latinus, originally Orbis latinus' and by Dr. J. G. Th. Grässe, is a Latin-German dictionary of Latin place names. Most recently updated in 1972, it is the most comprehensive modern reference work of Latin toponymy, covering antiquity to modern times.

The 1909 edition: https://archive.org/details/b28035094/page/n9/mode/2up

The extended 1972 edition (three volumes, online readable): https://www.bavarikon.de/search?collectionid=bav:BSB-CMS-00000000000039…

 

 

How to count pages and how to describe a book

 

  • John Carter. ABC for Book Collectors. New Castle, Del. Oak Knoll Press, 1995.

"John Carter's ABC for Book Collectors has long been established as the most enjoyable as well as the most informative reference book on the subject. Here, in over 450 alphabetical entries, ranging in length from a single line to several pages, may be found definition and analysis of the technical terms of book collecting and bibliography, interspersed with salutory comment on such subjects as auctions, condition, facsimiles and fakes, 'points', rarity, etc.

This seventh edition, revised and with a new introduction by Nicolas Barker, editor of The Book Collector, incorporates additions and amendments which he has accumulated since the last edition was updated fourteen years ago. Nicolas Barker worked with his friend John Carter revising the ABC up to the latter's death in 1975 and has faithfully preserved the spirit of the original. The ABC thus retains its character as an indispensable guide to book collecting."--BOOK JACKET
Viewable at https://archive.org/details/abcforbookcollec0000cart_w6t3

 

 

Where to find biographies online

 

  • World Biographical Information System Online (WBIS)


"WBIS Online is the most comprehensive biographical database available, providing biographical information on over 6 Million people from the 8th century B.C. to the present. Included are 8.5 Million digital facsimile articles from biographical reference works." (From the website)

Link: https://wbis.degruyter.com (via subscribed institution)