[Modus legendi abbreviaturas]

Roff. i.e., Roffredus, doctor.
Rog. i.e., Roglerius, legist.
Re or Rñ. i.e., by response or reply.
cr Re. i.e., require, as in the remissions.
Sali. i.e., Salicetus, doctor.
Sico ab. i.e., Sicolus, abbot.
Se ap. i.e., the Apostolic See.
Sol. i.e., solution.
Sa ap con. i.e., by the sacred approving council. Sequẽ. i.e., following.
Sequẽ. i.e., in the following [places].
cr S or §. i.e., above. When something is alleged in any book that was held previously before that place in another or the same book of the same law, however—namely, either civil or canon—this is alleged by "s" by the short "s."
But the long "s" alone i.e., namely original: "scilicet".
Spe. i.e., the Speculum Mirror, a large book.
Specu. i.e., the speculator, author of the Speculum Mirror, namely Guilhelmus Duranti.
Sub ap ob. i.e., under the obstacle of the motion of appeal, as in "concerning testaments," "when formerly" original: "cũ oli.".
Sa auc con. i.e., by the authority of the sacred council, as in "concerning oaths," "too much" original: "nimis".
Tan. i.e., Tancredus.
T or Ti. i.e., title, also t. i.e., title.
Tho. i.e., Thomas.
ex ¶ Vm. i.e., Vincentius, doctor.
Vince. i.e., Vincentinus, also a doctor.
Vber de Lo. i.e., Ubertus de Lobio.
Vlt. i.e., at the last.
V alone i.e., or, or "when," as v. q. v.
cr Wi. or Wil. i.e., Wilhelmus, which the Italians write Guilhelmus and the French Guilhelmus.
Wi. Duran. i.e., Wilhelmus Duranti.

V. i.e., verse or versicle.
Ve. i.e., the old original: "vetus", as in the Old Digest original: "ff vetus".
¶ X. i.e., ten.
XX. i.e., twenty, etc.
Xc. i.e., ninety, because placed before "c," it signifies a hundred in number; [it is] subtracted from it, as also in many other things. Franciscus.
Zab. i.e., Zabarella, namely the Lord, [mentioned] in "concerning consecration."
§. i.e., paragraph or paragraphs, of which it was spoken more broadly above. There are also other abbreviations of the rubrics of laws as well as canons, especially the Decretals, of which it will be clear.
¶ These things concerning the abbreviations of texts, glosses, summaries, and readings of the laws, besides the titles, now suffice. Which, indeed, appear difficult to those first studying the laws at the first approach. And they are rarely collected so copiously. Wherefore this little work is all the more accepted by the learned, and the more rarely it is thought of, the more diligently it has been collected.
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¶ Because for the knowledge of the first principles, it is necessary to have the rubrics or titles of both laws abbreviated and extended, I will set forth the rubrics of canon law because of their scarcity compared to the rubrics of civil law, which I will also add. Also, because canon law is preferred to civil law by reason of dignity and excellence, etc.
¶ There follow, therefore, the rubrics of the Decretals and subsequently of the Sixth [Decretal] and the Clementines, in that order in which they are placed in the Decretals, first abbreviated, then extended.