Galen's De temperamentis
This is a Wiki page about transcribing the book of Galen, De Temperamentis, which is run ad DP in two projects:
- Galeni De temperamentis (english introduction)
- Galeni De temperamentis, the Latin book proper.
This page and the following instructions only apply to the Latin project.
Proofreading instructions
Proof the long s (ſ) as a plain s letter; proof the "long i" (looking like j) as a plain i letter.
Represent ligatures æ and œ as ordinary ae and oe letters.
Rejoin words broken at end of line, whether a hyphen is printed or not. If you're unsure, use -*.
Replace scribal abbreviations with the corresponding letters with no brackets or special markup. The abbreviation rules are described below.
If you're unsure about the abbreviation (for instance if the standard rules seem to produce a nonexisting word), then add a single asterisk * near the unclear part.
- Example: Nõ oĩa poſſum9 omnes
- Correct:
Non oi*a possumus omnes - Also correct:
Non omnia possumus omnes(if oĩa is documented in this wiki page)
- Incorrect:
Non oina poffumus omnes(there is no such word "oina", and these are long s, not f letters)
Ordinary "modern-style" abbreviations followed by a dot are not expanded:
- Example: Deũ opt. max.
- Correct:
Deum opt. max.
Scribal abbreviations
The book uses a subset of the abbreviations commonly found in old Latin books.
From left to right: vowel with macron, pro- (at beginning of words), quod (a single word), -que, -quam, -tur, -us (end of words), ct (a mere ligature, not an abbreviation symbol.)
Most often a "macron" (a horizontal or somewhat squiggly bar) above a vowel means that vowel followed by m or n.
There are some cases where the bar means any number of m/n before/after the vowel:
- aĩa = anima
- hoĩus = hominus
- oĩa = omnia (and similarly oẽs = omnes, etc.)
- oĩo = omnino
There are a limited number of abbreviations which do not follow this scheme.
- aũt = autem
- ẽ = est
- eẽ = esse
- illd' = illud (using the d' of "quod")
- mõ = modo
- ñ = non
- ptãte = potestate
- qñ = quando
- rõnes = rationes (and similarly rõe = ratione, rõem = rationem, rõnalẽ = rationalem, etc.)
- tñ = tamen
- Vñ = Vnde
Links
General resources
Existing documentation in our wiki relevant for this book, for potential reference:
- Proofing old texts: the long s, -que symbol, ct ligature, catchword, question mark shape.
- We only have a subset of blackletter abbreviation symbols
- We also have a subset of Latin abbreviations in blackletter,
Books available online:
- Capelli's Dictionary of abbreviation can be useful for unknown abbreviations. Pick any one of existing versions as you wish (you don't need to know Italian or German to reach the alphabetically sorted plates):
- see a more complete bibliography of online books.
Other editions available online
- Paris, 1523 on Gallica. Contains less abbreviations than this one.
- Same edition, Google, color scans.
- (to be completed)