MANUSCRIPT ABBREVIATIONS AND OTHER SCRIBAL FEATURES IN THE "LIBER FLAVUS FERGUSIORUM"

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Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of manuscript abbreviations and other scribal features in a section comprising twenty-four folios of the important fifteenth-century manuscript now known as the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum (RIA MS 476 (23 O 48)). Some issues with regard to the expansion of manuscript abbreviations will also be discussed, and it will be seen that several abbreviations serve many more functions than their original ones.