Patterns of Historic Shelfmarks
| Id | Sample | Pattern | Remark | Used in | Provenance | MEI Record Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MM1 | [Capital letter][Capital letter][Arabic number] | Padova, Seminario | Copy Id. 02000349 | ||
| prima del 1912 | Padova, Biblioteca Universitaria | Copy Id. 02004473 | ||||
| 2 | 20.2.C.15 | [Arabic number].[Arabic number].[Capital letter].[Arabic number] | a matita sul risguardo anteriore | Roma, BNC | Copy Id. 02000597 | |
| 3 | Sal. 1a Est. 10o Cax. 4o | [Sala] [Arabic number] [Estante] [Arabic number] [Caxon] [Arabic number] | Madrid, Real Biblioteca | Copy Id. 02001269 | ||
| 4 | 3 Ch, 3.Ci | [Arabic numeral] [Capital letter][Small letter], [Arabic number].[Capital letter][Small letter] | Padova, Bibl. Universitaria | Copy Id. 02000351 | ||
| 5 | Banco C+G+D++ | [Banco] [Capital letter]+[Capital letter]+[Capital letter]++ | Padova, Bibl. Universitaria | Copy Id. 02000351 | ||
| 6 | D4 | [Capital letter][Arabic number] | Padova, Bibl. Universitaria | Copy Id. 02000350 | ||
| A 1289 | brown ink | London, BL | Sir Hans Sloane's library | Coopy Id. 02018208 | ||
| 7 | IV.12.F.10 | [Roman number].[Arabic number].[Capital letter].[Arabic number] | a matita | Roma, BNC | Copy Id. 02001312 | |
| 8 | IV.15.a | [Roman number].[Arabic number].[Lower-case letter] | a penna | Roma, BNC | Biblioteca del Collegio Romano | Copy Id. 02001335 |
| 9 | AA III 21 | [Capital letter].[Roman number].[Arabic number] | a penna | Roma, BNC | Biblioteca del Collegio di San Pantaleo | Copy Id. 02001434 |
| A VII 19 | in light brown ink, crossed out, 16th-century, right-hand lower margin | London, BL | Roma, S. Silvestro al Quirinale? | Copy Id. 02011671 | ||
| C.XXXIII.35 | in light brown ink upper portion of the spine | London, BL | Germany, Furstlich Wittgensteinsche Bibliothek | Copy Id. 02018559 | ||
| 10 | C.2 S.F O.7 N.19 | [Capital letter].[Arabic number].[Capital letter].[Arabic number].[Capital letter].[Arabic number].[Capital letter].[Arabic number] | a penna | Roma, BNC | Biblioteca del Collegio di San Bonaventura ai XII Apostoli | Copy Id. 02001810 |
| 11 | 57.6.17 | [Arabic number].[Arabic number].[Arabic number] | a penna | Roma, BNC | Copy Id. 02001817 | |
| 12 | T.6 | [Capital letter].[Arabic number] | a penna | Roma, BNC | Biblioteca di Luigi Valenti Gonzaga | Copy Id. 02001721 |
| sec. XX, c.[1]r | Pistoia, Archivio Capitolare | Copy Id. 02005288 | ||||
| 13 | IV.n.6.t.2 | [Roman number].[Lower-case letter].[Arabic number].[Lower-case letter].[Arabic number] | a pennello | Roma, BNC | Biblioteca del Convento di Santa Maria sopra Minerva | Copy Id. 02002122 |
| 14 | AA II 7 | [Capital letter].[Roman number].[Arabic number] | a matita | Roma, BNC | Biblioteca del Convento di San Francesco a Ripa | Copy Id. 02002778 |
| 15 | 15/3/25 | [Arabic number]/[Arabic number]/[Arabic number] in vertical arrangement | brown ink | Venezia Biblioteca del Museo Correr | Teodoro Correr | Copy Id. 02003819 |
| 16 | 391 | [Arabic number] | brown ink on the covers | Venezia Biblioteca del Museo Correr | Monastero di San Mattia, Biblioteca Murano? | Copy Id.02003819 |
| cartellino sul dorso, sec. XVIII | Pistoia, Archivio Capitolare | Copy Id. 02005288 | ||||
| à l'encre brune, en grand module, en haut de la 1re page imprimée | Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine | Paris, Bibliothèque royale - cote attribuée par les frères Dupuy (1645) | Copy id. 02132662 | |||
| à l'encre brune ou noire, au contreplat supérieur en général et à la page de titre (dans ce cas souvent rayé) ; parfois recto ou verso de la garde volante supérieure, ou au contreplat inférieur | Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine | Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine - cote de l'inventaire de 1690 http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/MAZC12655 | Copy id. 02132662 | |||
| à l'encre brune, en haut de la page de titre, précédée en général de “N°” | Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine | Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine - cote attribuée par Pierre Desmarais au milieu du 18e siècle ; se retrouve dans son catalogue topographique, Bibl. Mazarine ms. 4114 à 4121 | Copy id. 02132662 | |||
| à l'encre noire en haut à droite du 1er f. de texte, biffé, parfois suivie de la lettre “A” ; sur la garde volante, à l’encre rouge, précédé de la mention “XVe siècle n°” | Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine | Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine - cote attribuée aux incunables extraits du fonds général par Thiébaut de Berneaud en 1849 avant la création de la cote Inc actuelle fin 19e s. | Copy id. 02132662 | |||
| 17 | a 2 | [lower-case letter][arabic number] | a penna sul verso del foglio di guardia | Perugia, Università degli Studi | Copy Id.02003813 | |
| y. 8. | [lower-case letter]. [Arabic number]. | Black ink on the title-page | Marciana Library, Venice | Capodistria, Locus capuccinorum [S. Marta], OFMCap | Copy Id. 02020148 | |
| 18 | B-73 | [Capital letter]-[Arabic numeral] | a pluma en el extremo superior izquierdo del plano anterior | Barcelona UB, Reserva | Barcelona UB c.1850 | Copy Id. 02003988 |
| 19 | A-7-342 | [Capital letter]-[arabic number]-[arabic number] | targhetta manoscritta sul dorso | Milano, Carmelitani scalzi | Carmelitani scalzi di Concesa di Trezzo d'Adda (Milano) | Copy Id. 02003515 |
| etichetta con segnatura S-3-28 della Bibl. di Cultura Francescana della Prov. Lombarda sulla controguardia anteriore | Milano, Chiesa di Sant'Angelo (OFM) | Milano, Chiesa di Sant'Angelo (OFM) | Copy Id. 02007165 | |||
| Pencil. Verso of front free endpaper | Canterbury Cathedral Library | Canterbury Cathedral Library | Copy id. 02013862 | |||
| 20 | E-II 8 | [stamped capital letter]-[stamped Roman number] [arabic number in pencil] | Milano, Carmelitani scalzi | Carmelitani scalzi di Concesa di Trezzo d'Adda (Milano) | Copy Id. 02003515 | |
| 21 | CC-5o-128 | [double capital letter]-[Arabic ordinal number]-[Arabic number] | [in pencil on the title-page] | Milano, Carmelitani scalzi | Biblioteca dei Carmelitani Scalzi di Lombardia | Copy Id. 02003516 |
| 22 | B. 7 n. 3 | [Capital letter]. [Arabic numeral] n. [Arabic numeral] | manuscript on c. a2r | Firenze, Biblioteca Provinciale dei Frati Minori | Lucca, San Cerbone OFM | Copy Id. 02005628 |
| 23 | G V 26 | [Printed capital letter] [Printed capital letter] [manuscript Arabic numeral] | targhetta sul dorso | Monza, Biblioteca Carrobiolo | idem | Copy Id. 02005317 |
| 24 | L.VII.17 | [Capital letter].[Roman numeral].[Arabic numeral] | in manuscript, brown ink | London, BL | Piacenza, Cappuccini | Copy Id. 02006113 |
| brown ink on the lower half of the spine, accompanied by a pen arabesque | Venice, Biblioteca Marciana | Pavia, Somaschi, Collegio di S. Maiolo | Copy Id. 02122357 | |||
| 25 | N III. [left blank for number] | [Capital letter][Roman number].[left blank for number] | Rectangular printed blue/grey label | London, BL | Piacenza, Cappuccini | Copy Id. 02006113 |
| 26 | Z III 16 | [Capital letter] [Roman numeral] [Arabic numeral] | Printed octagonal paper label with foliate decoration | London, BL | Unidentified 18/19 sec. Italian? | Copy Id. 02006113 |
| A. I. 8. | black ink on the flyleaf | London, BL | from the Old Royal Library | copy no. 02124497 | ||
| Z. * I. * 25. * | [Capital letter] [Roman numeral] [Arabic numeral] | Printed rectangular paper label with border of type ornaments, on the front pastedown | Venice, Museo Correr Library | Venezia, Congregazione dell’Oratorio di Santa Maria della Consolazione detta 'della Fava' | Copy Id. 02019615 | |
| M:VI.8 | [Capital letter] [Roman numeral] [Arabic numeral] | Black ink on the pastedown | Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria | Arrangement of incunabula at the foundation of the Library and testified in the Catalogo Bencini (1730) | Copy Id. 02140123 | |
| 27 | V-3-D-7 | [Capital letter]-[Arabic numeral]-[Capital letter]-[Arabic numeral] | in manuscript | Lodi, Seminario | Unidentified Italian, 20th c.? | Copy Id. 02005758 |
| 28 | Y-VI-11 | [Capital letter]-[Roman numeral]-[Arabic numeral] | segnatura in inchiostro nero sulla carta *1v accanto alla tabula. La segnatura, preceduta da una croce e dalla scritta 'Frati Minori Rezzato', è disposta anch'essa verticalmente su tre livelli separati da barre | Milano, Chiesa di Sant'Angelo (OFM) | Milano, Chiesa di Sant'Angelo (OFM) | Copy Id. 02007165 |
| 29 | H VIII | [Capital letter].[Roman number]. | a penna | Monza, Biblioteca Capitolare del Duomo | Monza, Biblioteca Capitolare dei Duomo | Copy Id. 02005804 |
| 30 | B 9 | [Capital letter] [Arabic number] | a penna nel bianco di testa della prima carta del libro | Pisa, Biblioteca del convento di San Torpé | Copy Id. 02007342 | |
| 31 | C N VIII | [Capital letter][Capital letter][Roman number] | a penna sul dorso del volume, la prima lettera in testa al dorso, seguita da autore e titolo dell'opera, e quindi dagli ultimi due elementi | Pisa, Biblioteca del convento di San Torpé | Copy Id. 02007342 | |
| 32 | Inc Typ No 74 | Inc Typ No [Arabic number] | in black ink on a front leaf; may have full stops after “Inc” or “Typ” (often faint); “No” (sometimes “Nro”) with the “o” (or “ro”) superscript with two lines under it; written by Johann Baptist Bernhard between ca. 1810 and ca. 1820; may be accompanied by the word “Duplum” on the same or an adjacent leaf | Houghton Library, Harvard University | Königliche Hof- und Staatsbibliothek, München (later Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) | Copy Id. 02005013 |
| 33 | N 199 | [Capital letter][Arabic number] | in black or red ink, written large, at the foot of the spine of the binding | Houghton Library, Harvard University | Reichskartause Buxheim | Copy Id. 02007912 |
| D. 8. | [Capital letter]. [Arabic number]. | Black ink, written large, on the front edge | Marciana Library, Venice | Montepulciano, Domenicani, Convento di Santa Maria di Fonte Castello, OP | Copy Id. 02020115 | |
| In black on the margins (upper and lower) of the first printed leaf | Angers, Augustinians Convent Library | London, British Library | Copy Id. 00201140 | |||
| 34 | XVI/647 | [Manuscript capital letter] [manuscript Arabic numeral] | a matita | Monza, Biblioteca Carrobiolo | Milano, Biblioteca dell'Istituto Zaccaria | Copy Id. 02005321 |
| 35 | FM II 491 | [Manuscript capital letter] [manuscript Roman numeral] [manuscript Arabic numeral] | in pennarello rosso all'interno di etichetta prestampata con nome della biblioteca: Biblioteca Istituto Zaccaria Milano | Monza, Biblioteca Carrobiolo | Milano, Biblioteca dell'Istituto Zaccaria | Copy Id. 02005201 |
| 36 | A 10 | [manuscript capital letter][manuscipt arabic number] | a matita nella parte alta esterna del frontespizio | Gorla Minore, Biblioteca 'Lina Airoldi' del Collegio Rotondi | Gorla Minore, Biblioteca 'Lina Airoldi' del Collegio Rotondi | Copy Id. 02007500 |
| 37 | C IX 29 | [manuscript capital letter][manuscript Roman numeral] [manuscript arabic number] | a matita rossa e blu | Gorla Minore, Biblioteca 'Lina Airoldi' del Collegio Rotondi | Gorla Minore, Biblioteca 'Lina Airoldi' del Collegio Rotondi | Copy Id. 02007500 |
| 38 | K.4.31 | [Capital letter].[Arabic number].[Arabic number] | Barcelona, Convent de Sant Agustí (OSA) | Copy Id. 02008654 | ||
| Sulle carte preliminari, ad inchiostro bruno | Venezia, Biblioteca del Museo Correr | Treviso, cappuccini, Locus Capuccinorum, OFMCap | Copy Id. 02019557 | |||
| 39 | Inc 14 34 | Inc [Arabic numeral, in manuscript] [Arabic numeral, in print] | Al contropiatto anteriore, manoscritto in inchiostro marrone dentro un timbro; oppure, sul verso della carta di guardia anteriore e sul dorso; oppure su etichetta bordata di viola, in parte manoscritto in parte stampato | Alessandria, Biblioteca Storica del Seminario Vescovile | Idem | Copy Id. 02009700 |
| 40 | 2. G. 9. | [Arabic number]. [Capital letter]. [Arabic number]. | in brown ink | Lambeth Palace Library | Books returning from Cambridge | Copy Id. 02010048 |
| 52.I.26 | [Arabic number]. [Capital letter]. [Arabic number]. | Merton College Library | Copy Id. 02018704 | |||
| 4.D.31 | [Arabic number]. [Capital letter]. [Arabic number]. | manuscript in black ink on a rectangular printed label | Venice, Marciana National Library | books removed from the Marciana National Library during the Austrian domination, brought to Vienna, and subsequently returned | Copy Id. 02019878 | |
| 41 | C 4 7 | [Capital letter] [Arabic number] [Arabic number] | Firenze, Biblioteca Moreniana | Copy Id. 02008919 | ||
| 42 | X L 18 | [Roman number][Capital letter] [Arabic number] | in black ink | Lambeth Palace Library | Books returning from Cambridge | Copy Id.02010070 |
| 43 | I. l. 36. | [Capital Roman letter]. [Greek letter]. [Arabic number]. | in black ink | Lambeth Palace Library | Books in Cambridge between 1648/9 and 1664 | Copy Id.02010038 |
| 44 | no. 743 | [no]. [Arabic number] | in black ink | Lambeth Palace Library | Books of the Royal Library of Henry VIII | Copy Id.02010079 |
| 45 | 49 C 12 | [Arabic number] [Capital letter] [Arabic number] | etichetta prestampata col nome della biblioteca che corre su tre lati, i primi due elementi a stampa il terzo manoscritto | Monza, Biblioteca Civica | Monza, Biblioteca Comunale | Copy Id. 02005160 |
| 46 | 64 C 23 | [Arabic number] [Capital letter] [Arabic number] | manoscritto al dorso del volume in inchiostro nero | Monza, Biblioteca Civica | Gaetano Zucchi | Copy Id. 02005151 |
| 47 | C:27.1. | [Capital letter]:[Arabic number].[Arabic number]. | brown ink on titlepage | Oxford, Lincoln College | Copy Id.02010357 | |
| 48 | 179 14 | [Arabic number] [Arabic number] | Firenze, Biblioteca Moreniana | Copy Id. 02010291 | ||
| 49 | Ξ. γ. 10 | [Greek capital letter]. [Greek lower case letter]. [Arabic number] | Dark brown ink on the upper corner of the back flyleaf | London, The British Library | Found in a volume that belonged to C.M. Cracherode (1730-1799) | Copy Id. 02010839 |
| 50 | 2.D.f | [Arabic number][Capital letter][Lower case letter] | Brown ink on the upper corner of the first printed page | London, The British Library | This pressmark reflects the first and second placing system of the BM Library in the Montagu House (number = room, capital Letter = press in the room, lower case letter = shelf in the press; in room 2 there was the library bequeathed by C.M. Cracherode (1730-99) | Copy Id. 02010839 |
| 51 | 673.i | [Arabic number][Lower case letter] | Pencil on the verso of the front flyleaf | London, The British Library | Copy Id. 02010839 | |
| 52 | C.19.d.12 | [Capital letter].[Arabic number].[Lower case letter].[Arabic number] | Pencil on the verso of the front flyleaf | London, The British Library | This shelfmark was applied by A. Panizzi to books picked out from the Old Library and put in closed cases | Copy Id. 02010839 |
| 53 | CXCVII.3 | [Roman number].[Arabic number] | Brown ink on the verso of the front pastedown | Venice, Marciana National Library | The shelfmark was presumably applied during the stay of the library at Palazzo Ducale (1812-1904) | Copy id. 02010920 |
| Brown ink on the verso of the front flyleaf, lower right corner | Venice, Correr Library | Treviso, Serviti, S. Maria de Jesu, OSM | Copy id. 02019035 | |||
| Brown ink on the verso of the front pastedown, lower right corner | Treviso, Biblioteca Capitolare | Unknown | Copy id. 02019671 | |||
| 54 | A a 7 | [Capital letter] [Lower case letter] [Arabic number] | Pencil | London, Lambeth Palace Library | Found in a book that belonged to Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921) | Copy id. 02010062 |
| 55 | Misc. Var. T. 23 | [Shortened word].[Shortened word].[Tome].[Arabic number] | Brown ink | Venice, Marciana National Library | Apostolo Zeno's (1668-1750) shelfmark for his miscellanies, cfr. Catalogo autografo della biblioteca Zeno, BNM, Mss.It.XI 288-293(=7273-7278) | Copy id. 02010975 |
| 56 | f a/2 | [Lower case letter].[Lower case letter].[Arabic number].[Fraction] | Black ink | Oxford, Taylor Istitution Library | Found in a book which was part of the Libri Collection | Copy id. 02010970 |
| 57 | 17 B/BK/ | [Arabic number].[Capital letter].[Capital letters] | Pencil | Oxford, Taylor Institution Library | Found in a book which was part of the Libri Collection | Copy id. 02010970 |
| 58 | X L XIII | [Roman number] [Capital letter] [Roman number] | in black ink | London, Lambeth Palace Library | Books returning from Cambridge | Copy Id. 02010562 |
| 59 | Q XXX | [Capital letter] [Roman number] | on a label mounted on the front cover; the Roman number is in characters less than half the height of the letter | Houghton Library, Harvard University | Erfurter Peterskloster | Copy Id. 02009905 |
| Light brown ink on the pastedown | London, The British Library | From the Library of the Abbey of St Remi, Reims | Copy Id. 02016268 | |||
| 60 | E 305 | [Capital letter] [space] [Arabic number] | brown ink, manuscript on the top of the book spine | Venice, Marciana National Library | shelfmark from Girolamo Contarini's (1770-1843) library | Copy Id. 02011238 |
| brown ink, manuscript on the top of the book spine | Venice, Biblioteca del Museo Correr, Fondo Bernardi | Monselice, Biblioteca del Convento di San Giacomo | Copy Id. 02012467 | |||
| brown ink, manuscript on the top of the book spine | Venice, Marciana National Library | Convento di San Michele di Murano, Venice | Copy Id. 02012509 | |||
| sul dorso, manoscritto ad inchiostro bruno | Avola, Biblioteca comunale Giuseppe Bianca | Avola (Siracusa), Cappuccini, OFMCap | Copy Id. 02126047 | |||
| 61 | V.5.10. | [Roman number]. [ Arabic number]. [Arabic number] | in black ink | London, Lambeth Palace Library | Shelfmark found in a 17th c. catalogue of Lambeth Palace Library printed books | Copy Id.02010694 |
| 62 | 1170.f.22 | [Arabic number].[Lower case letter].[Arabic number] | in pencil | London, The British Library | Copy Id. 02011687 | |
| 63 | In f. n. 94 | [Book format] n. [Progressive Arabic number] | Brown ink on the spine | Venice, Marciana National Library | Venice, Convento domenicano dei SS. Giovanni e Paolo, cf. J. Morelli, 'Nota dei più rari libri stampati della libreria si Ss. Giovanni e Paolo [1789], in BNM, Cod. Marc. Ris. 93, fasc. I, pp. 19-22 e fasc. II | Copy id. 02011852 |
| 64 | M.VII.2893 | [Capital letter].[Roman numeral].[Arabic numeral] | Venice, Marciana National Library | Venice, Girolamo Ascanio Molin bequest, cf. Fondi Antichi registers, nr 41209 | Copy id. 02000119 | |
| 65 | Kf13 | [Capital letter][Lowercase letter][Arabic number] | Red ink, in the upper right corner of the front pastedown; or, if not possible (e.g. because of marbled paper or doublures), on the first free endpaper | Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library / Grenville Kane Collection | Pembroke library (Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, 1656-1733). See Seymour de Ricci, English collectors of books and manuscripts, 1530-1930, and their marks of ownership (1930 and reprinted), p. 40-41. | Copy id. 02012157 |
| 66 | Gg 11 | [Capital letter][Lowercase letter] [Arabic number] | Small label, printed in black, at the bottom of the spine, the letters and number on two separate lines. | Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library / Grenville Kane Collection | Pembroke library (Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, 1656-1733). | Copy id. 02012157 |
| 67 | CXXVI.a.I | [Roman numeral].[Lower case letter].[Arabic numeral] | black ink on the upper central part of the front pastedown | Iowa City Univ. Library | Unidentified | Copy Id. 02011775 |
| 68 | Y:3 12 | [Capital letter]:[Arabic number] [new line, Arabic number] | Brown ink | Venice, Marciana National Library | Convento dei Cappuccini (Giudecca, Venezia) | Copy id. 02012496 |
| 69 | XXVII.A.4 | [Roman number].[Capital letter].[Arabic number] | Dark brown ink on the front flyleaf | London, The British Library | Found in a book once owned by Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730-99) | Copy id. 02011666 |
| 70 | Gal 10 HH b | Gal[ery] [arabic number] [capital letter][lower case letter] | In pencil on the title-page | London, BL | Found in book previouly owned by Charles Burney (1757-1817) | Copy id. 02011614 |
| 71 | ff a 14 | [double lower case letter][lower case letter][arabic number] | In pencil on the recto of the front flyleaf | London, BL | Found in a book bound possibly in Italy in the 16th century | Copy id. 02011444 |
| 72 | 8C3 | [Arabic number][Capital letter][Arabic number] | In pencil on the verso of a flyleaf | London, BL | King George III Library (possibly arrangement in Kensington Palace) | Copy id. 02012667 |
| 73 | E.III.2.15 | [Capital letter].[Roman number].[Arabic number].[Arabic number] | In brown ink on the top right corner of the recto of a flyleaf | London, Wellcome Library | Possibly belonging to a library of the Venetian area (a ms note refers to another copy of the incunabulum held in the Camaldolesian library in Murano) | Copy id. 02012707 |
| 74 | J.10.9.27 | [Capital letter].[Arabic number].[Arabic number].[Arabic number] | In brown ink on the top of the front pastedown | London, Wellcome Library | From an Italian area (next to the shelfmark an Italian ms note by the same hand, 19th c.) | Copy id. 02012707 |
| H.4.9.19 | [Capital letter].[Arabic number].[Arabic number].[Arabic number] | Sometimes in brown, sometimes in red ink, on the top of the front pastedown | Vicenza, Biblioteca Bertoliana | Vicenza, Biblioteca Bertoliana, 18th and 19th century | Copy id. 02124291 | |
| 75 | R.b.8 | [Capital letter].[Lowercase letter].[Arabic number] | In brown ink on the top of the titlepage | London, Wellcome Library | Shelmark written next to the stamp of the Medical Society of London | Copy id. 02012842 |
| 76 | C.C.d.12 | [Capital letter].[Capital letter].[Lowercase letter].[Arabic number] | In brown ink on the front pastedown (18th-19th century) | London, Wellcome Library | Copy previously belonging to the Library of the London Medical Society | Copy id. 02012842 |
| 77 | VI.R.c.22 | [Roman number].[Capital letter].[Lowercase letter].[Arabic number] | In ink in oval cartouche of armorial bookplate | Princeton University, Scheide Library | Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843) | Copy id. 02012912 |
| 78 | RBR 185.19 BUR | RBR [Arabic number].[Arabic number] BUR | on the recto of second front endpaper, in pencil | Oxford, St Hilda's College | former shelfmark of the College | Copy id. 02013128 |
| 79 | A 31.3.3 | [Capital or lower letter] [new line: Arabic number].[Arabic number].[Arabic number] | Brown ink on the top spine; oppure su tassello in pelle impressa in oro: lettera maiuscola, dati editoriali, numeri arabi | Venice, Marciana National Library | shelfmark of the Somascans' Library from the Convento di Santa Maria della Salute (Venice) | Copy id. 02013353; 02013034 |
| 80 | Q * 6 | [Capital letter] [asterisk] [Arabic number] | Historical catalogue, BNM, Ms. It. X, 271(6904) | Venice, Marciana National Library | Convento di San Francesco della Vigna (Venice) | Copy id. 02013444 |
| 81 | F*: 3: 36 | [Capital letter] [asterisk] [Arabic number] [Arabic number] | Brown ink on the middle of the front pastedown | Venice, Marciana National Library | Convento dei carmelitani scalzi di Santa Maria di Nazareth (Venice) | Copy id. 02013490 |
| 82 | G di sop: Sc: IV | [Capital letter with position expressed] [new line: (shelfmark) Roman number] | Light brown ink on the top of a front flyleaf | Venice, Marciana National Library | From an antiquarian bookseller | Copy id. 02013498 |
| 83 | B Scanzia VI Numero 19 | [Capital letter] [new line: (shelfmark) Roman number] [new line: (number) Arabic number] | Brown ink in the middle of a front flyleaf | Venice, Marciana National Library | From an antiquarian bookseller | Copy id. 00200347 |
| 84 | n° 1070 | [Abbreviation for number] [Arabic number] | Light brown ink on the first and on the last leaf, within the inscription | Venice, Marciana National Library | Venezia, Benedettini, Monastero di S. Giorgio Maggiore | Copy id. 00200283 |
| Brown ink on the first leaf of printed text, 16th century, at the end of the ownership inscription | Subiaco, Biblioteca Statale del Monumento Nazionale di Santa Scolastica | Subiaco, Benedettini, S. Scolastica, OSB | Copy id. 02124553 | |||
| Dark brown ink on the first leaf, near the inscription | Venice, Marciana National Library | Reggio Emilia, SS. Petrus et Prosperus, OSB | Copy id. 00200913 | |||
| Dark brown ink on the first leaf, following the inscription | Venice, Marciana National Library | Bologna, Canonici Regolari Lateranensi, Monastero di San Salvatore | Copy id. 00200557 | |||
| Brown ink on the first flyleaf, near the inscription | Venice, Marciana National Library | Biblioteca di Marin Sanudo il giovane | Copy id. 02122340 | |||
| Sul frontespizio ad inchiostro marrone-bruno, sotto la nota di possesso: 'N.° 41', scritto anche per esteso 'Quadrageximus primus' | Venice, Marciana National Library | Biblioteca di Vettore Pisani | Copy id. 02123536 | |||
| 85 | 'ZZ.5 φ.2' | [Double Capital letter].[Arabic number][Greek letter].[Arabic number] | Light brown ink on a front flyleaf | Venice, Marciana National Library | The shelfmark was applied to the copy before the stay of the library at Palazzo Ducale (1812-1904) | Copy id. 00202385 |
| 86 | CCVIII.5 | [Roman number].[Arabic number] | Dark brown ink on the lower part of the front pastedown | Treviso, Biblioteca Capitolare | Could it be a previous shelfmark of the same Library? | Copy id. 00200499 |
| 87 | Rac. Cic. Inc. 29 | [Collection Cicogna Incunable; sometimes just Incunable] [Arabic number] | Brown ink on the front pastedown | Venezia, Biblioteca del Museo Correr | shelfmark assigned and written by Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna | Copy Id.00200451 |
| 88 | B. 2 | [Capital letter].[Arabic number] | Brown ink on the first leaf of text | Venice, Marciana National Library | Conegliano (Treviso), Conventual Franciscans, S. Maria Gratiarum, OFM Conv. | Copy id. 00200849 |
| R. 56 | [Capital letter].[Arabic number] | Light brown ink on the front paste-down | Venice, Marciana National Library | Paris, Collegium Societatis Jesu | Copy id. 02123003 | |
| D) 36. | [Capital letter])[Arabic number] | In pencil upper left corner of the front paste-down | London, The British Library | Vienna, Jesuits | Copy id. 02019318 | |
| 89 | S.a T 1 | [Room or Shelf] [Capital letter] [Arabic number] | Brown ink on the front pastedown | Venice, Marciana National Library | The shelfmark was applied to the copy in the 19. century, during the stay of the library at Palazzo Ducale (1812-1904) | Copy id. 00200949 |
| 90 | Inc.5.a.222 | Inc [Arabic number] [Lower-case letter] [Arabic number] | Al contropiatto anteriore, manoscritto in grafite; oppure, sul recto della prima carta di testo | Monaco, Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis | Venezia, Biblioteca del Museo Correr | Copy Id. 00201249 |
| 91 | C4:63 | [Capital letter][Arabic number]:[Arabic number] | Dark ink, on the verso of the flyleaf, upper left-hand side corner | London, BL | Sunderland Library | Copy Id. 00202387 |
| 92 | E 5 | [Capital letter] [Arabic number] | In pencil at upper left of front pastedown or front free endleaf verso | Princeton University, Scheide Library | Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892) | Copy id. 02012912 |
| 93 | Z.11-20 | [Capital letter].[Arabic number]-[Arabic number] | Blue crayon. Verso of front free endpaper | Canterbury Cathedral Library | Canterbury Cathedral Library | Copy id. 02013862 |
| 94 | DD.4. | [Capital letter][Capital letter].[Arabic number]. underscored | Brown ink. Upper left, on verso of front free endpaper | Canterbury Cathedral Library | Copy id. 02013862 | |
| 95 | M 6 19 | [Capital letter] [Arabic number] [Arabic number] | Blue crayon. Front pastedown | Canterbury Cathedral Library | Canterbury Cathedral Library | Copy Id. 02014653 |
| 96 | M 56, 26 | [Capital letter] [Arabic number], [Arabic number] | Blue crayon. Front pastedown | Canterbury Cathedral Library | Canterbury Cathedral Library | Copy Id. 02014874 |
| 97 | LXXIX.Aa.7. | [Roman number].[Capital letter]. [Lower case letter]. [Arabic number] | Pencil. Flyleaf | British Library | anonymous institution | Copy Id. 00200385 |
| 98 | Classis V. Sc. 2 N° 1590 | [Capital letter] [Roman number] [Lower case letter] [Arabic number] | Brown ink on the front pastedown or on the first pages | Venezia, Biblioteca del Museo Correr | Venezia, Convento di San Bonaventura, OFMRef | Copy Id. 02014978 |
| 99 | Misc. N° 498 | [Abbreviation for Miscellany] [Abbreviation for number] [Arabic number] | Transcribed by a 19th century librarian on the front fly-leaf of the volume | Venice, Marciana National Library | Jacopo Morelli's library | Copy Id. 02015042 |
| 100 | I.YY.3 | [Capital letter].[Double capital letter].[Arabic number] | In pencil on the first leaf | Perugia, Biblioteca Augusta | Perugia, Biblioteca Augusta | Copy Id. 02012616 |
| F.FR.3 | Dark ink, on the page of the colophon | London, The British Library | Books preserved in Germany (Baden-Württemberg) until the 19th century | Copy Id. 02015335 | ||
| 101 | Kp. 194 | [Capital letter][Lower-case letter]. [Arabic number] | Manuscript label at foot of spine | Harvard Law School Library | Fürstlich Stolbergische Bibliothek <Wernigerode> | Copy id. 02015173 |
| 102 | 61.a.2. | [Arabic number][Lower case letter].[Arabic number] | Pencil on the paste-down | London, BL | Copies from the Sunderland Library | Copy id. 02015375 |
| 103 | 17 B c | [Arabic number][Capital letter][Lower case letter] | Pencil on the first leaf | London, BL | In copies from Banks, from Sloane | Copy id. 02015283 |
| 14 LL a | a variant of the previous with double capital letter | Pencil on the front flyleaf | London, BL | book donated by Sir Arthur Paget | Copy id. 02123944 | |
| 104 | C.48.l. | [Capital letter][Arabic numeral][Lower case letter] | Pencil on the flyleaf | London, BL | Copy id. 02018266 | |
| 105 | I.E.f. | [Roman numeral][Capital letter][Lower case letter] | Pen, on the first printed leaf, repeated in pencil on the flyleaf | London, BL | Copy id. 02015002 | |
| 106 | B.4.10.Med. | [Capital letter].[Arabic numeral].[Arabic numeral].[discipline]. | the last elements is abbreviation for a discipline [e.g. Jur.] | Merton College Library | Copy id. 02018704 | |
| 107 | VII. D. c. 39 | [Roman number]. [Capital letter]. [lower case letter]. [Arabic numeral] | Worcester College Library | Inscribed into the Duke of Sussex ex-libris | Copy id. 02018323 | |
| 108 | Auct.III.Q.1.13 | [Auct].[Roman numeral].[Capital Letter].[arabic number].[arabic number] | Dark ink on the paste-down; Bodleian Library Shelf-mark | London BL | Duplicate from the Bodleian | Copy id. 02019247 |
| 109 | Locus 39 τόπος λθ' | [Locus] [Arabic number] [Parallel Greek shelfmark] | Dark ink on a front flyleaf | Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana | Bessarion's library shelfmark | Copy id. 02019904 |
| 110 | Scansia IV Fila XI al n° 135 | Shelf [Roman number] Row [Roman number] No [Arabic number] | Brown ink on the rear pastedown | Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana | Library of the family Perolari Malmignati from Lendinara? | Copy id. 02121779 |
| 111 | IV.90 | [Roman number].[Arabic number] | In pencil upper left corner of the front paste-down | London, The British Library | Vienna, Jesuits | Copy id. 02019318 |
| 112 | NN3:25 | [Capital letter][Capital letter][Arabic number]:[Arabic number] | In ink, upper right corner of first leaf recto | Huntington Library | Mainz, Jesuit College | Copy id. 02123133 |
| 113 | VIII.4.12 | [Roman numeral].[Arabic number].[Arabic number] | In pencil, on a front endleaf or pastedown | Huntington Library | Francis Child, Osterley Park library; recorded by shelf location in Thomas Morell, Catalogus librorum in bibliotheca Osterleiensi, 1771. | Copy id. 02123399 |
| 114 | R.17. over N.10. | [Capital letter].[Arabic number]. above [Capital letter].[Arabic number]. | In large brown ink on label at foot of spine | Huntington Library | Unidentified, probably German monastic, 16th-17th century. | Copy id. 02019804 |
| 115 | XXXIV. K. 75. | [Roman numeral]. [Capital letter]. [Arabic number]. | Added in ms. to a printed bookplate dated 1767; the final number may have a letter added to indicate volume | Huntington Library | Salzburg, Benedictines, St. Peter | Copy id. 02123273 |
| 116 | Ven.6.49.3 | Ven.[number].[number].[number] | Cambridge University Library 1888 | John Venn | Copy id.00558897 | |
| 117 | AB-4-52 | [Capital letter] [Capital letter]-[Arabic number]-[Arabic number] | In pen on upper pastedown | Cambridge University Library | In-house numbering allocated to a select class of incunabula and early 16th-century books, 1790s-1880s | Copy id. 00558896 |
| 118 | C.II.T.6 | [Capital letter].[Roman numeral].[Capital letter].[Arabic numeral] | In ink on the pastedown | London, BL | Pastedown of a binding with the arms of Pope Pius VI | Copy id. 02124005 |
| 119 | Scaffa. 125 Num. 9 | [Shelf].[Arabic number].[Short form for Number].[Arabic number] | Brown ink on the top spine and on one of the first leaves | Siracusa, Biblioteca comunale | Siracusa, Biblioteca Provinciale dei frati minori Cappuccini | Copy id. 02123771 |
| 120 | C.n°.5. | [Capital letter].[n°].[Arabic numeral] | In pen on the pastedown | London BL | copy purchased by the British Museum in 1848 | copy no. 02124018 |
| Brown ink on the first leaf, 17th-18th century | Subiaco, Biblioteca Statale del Monumento Nazionale di Santa Scolastica | Subiaco, Benedettini, S. Scolastica, OSB | Copy id. 002124581 | |||
| 121 | 4°.L.4°.3 | [Shelfmark number].[Capital letter].[Format].[Arabic numeral] | Brown ink on a front and on a rear flyleaf | Rome Corsiniana | probably a former owner's shelfmark | copy no. 02124650 |
| 122 | 129.1.F | [Arabic number].[Arabic number].[Capital letter] | Brown ink on the top spine of the front flyleaf | Ravenna, Biblioteca comunale Classense | copy id. 02126004 | |
| 123 | III.M.1 | [Roman number]. [Capital letter]. [Arabic number] | In pencil | Ravenna, Biblioteca comunale Classense | probably a former owner's shelfmark (Giacomo Manzoni's library) | copy id. 02126149 |
| 124 | a.12.5 | [Lower case letter].[Arabic number].[Arabic number] | Brown ink on the top spine of the front paste-down | Ravenna, Biblioteca comunale Classense | the former shelfmark of the 'Raccolta dantesca' at the Biblioteca Classense in Ravenna | copy id. 02126253 |
| 125 | Founders Library B.1.4 | [Founders Library] [Capital letter].[Arabic number].[Arabic number] | in pen and ink (20th century) on the pastedown | Oxford, New College | copy id. 02126338 | |
| 126 | Auct. T.17.8(1) | [Auct.] [Capital letter].[Arabic number].[Arabic number] | in pen and ink over the booklabel | Oxford, New College | copy id. 02126342 | |
| 127 | Auctar Wagon V.8 | [Auctar Wagon] [Capital letter].[Arabic number] | in pen and ink over the booklabel | Oxford, New College | copy id. 02126342 | |
| 128 | 132.Or.4.K | [Arabic number].Or.[Arabic number].[Capital letter] | Brown ink on the top spine of the front flyleaf | Ravenna, Biblioteca comunale Classense | variant of n. 122 | copy id. 02126768 |
| 129 | Inc. c. a. 32. | Inc.[Lower case letter].[Lower case letter].[Arabic number]. | Brown ink on label on the top spine of the book | Ravenna, Biblioteca del Centro dantesco dei Frati minori conventuali | copy id. 02126780 | |
| 130 | 2a S. 2 | [Arabic number] [Lower case letter 'a' subscript] [Capital letter].[Arabic number] | In pencil on the top spine of the front paste-down | Bagnacavallo, Biblioteca comunale 'Giuseppe Taroni' | old shelfmark of the library (XIXth c.); variant of nn. 134, 135, 136, 137 | copy id. 02127389 |
| 131 | M.° 54. H | [Capital letter].° [Arabic number]. [Capital letter] | In pen and brown ink | Ravenna, Biblioteca diocesana 'San Pier Crisologo' | old shelfmark of the library (19th century) | copy id. 02126795 |
| 132 | C.1.A5 | [Capital letter].[Arabic numeral].[Capital letter][Arabic numeral] | In pencil at the top right-hand margin of the fly leaf | London BL | Holkham Hall | Copy id. 02128564 |
| 133 | S. 49 N. 3 | [S. for Scaffale][Arabic numeral][N. for numero][Arabic numeral] | Brown ink on the spine | Noto, Cappuccini, OFMCap | Modica, Biblioteca Comunale 'Salvatore Quasimodo' | Copy id. 02131124 |
| 134 | IIa. S. 2 | [Roman number] [Lower case letter 'a' subscript].[Capital letter].[Arabic number] | In pencil on the top spine of the front paste-down | Bagnacavallo, Biblioteca comunale 'Giuseppe Taroni' | old shelfmark of the library (XIXth c.); variant of nn. 130, 135, 136, 137 | Copy id. 02129177 |
| 135 | 6 F II 26 | [Arabic number] [Capital letter] [Roman number] [Arabic number] | In brown ink on the top spine of the front paste-down | Bagnacavallo, Biblioteca comunale 'Giuseppe Taroni' | old shelfmark of the library (XIXth c.) | Copy id. 02129112 |
| 136 | 2° 2.S | [Arabic number]° [Arabic number].[Capital letter] | In pencil on the top spine of the front paste-down | Bagnacavallo, Biblioteca comunale 'Giuseppe Taroni' | old shelfmark of the library (XIXth c.); variant of nn. 130, 134, 135, 137 | Copy id. 02129097 |
| 137 | 3 K.8 | [Arabic number] [Capital letter].[Arabic number] | In pencil on the top spine of the front paste-down | Bagnacavallo, Biblioteca comunale 'Giuseppe Taroni' | old shelfmark of the library (XIXth c.); variant of nn. 130, 134, 135, 136 | Copy id. 02129217 |
| 138 | II° 2. S. | [Roman number]°[Arabic number].[Capital letter]. | In brown ink on the top spine of the front paste-down | Bagnacavallo, Biblioteca comunale 'Giuseppe Taroni' | old shelfmark of the library (XIXth c.); variant of n. 136 | Copy id. 02129180 |
| 139 | O 4 - 542 | [Capital letter] [Arabic number] - [Arabic number] | In brown ink on the top spine of the front paste-down | Ravenna, Biblioteca comunale Classense | old shelfmark of the library (XVIIIth c.) | Copy id. 02132739 |
| 140 | J32 - J - I | [Capital letter][Arabic number] - [Capital letter] - [Capital letter] | In brown ink on the top spine of the front flyleaf | Ravenna, Biblioteca comunale Classense | old shelfmark of the library (XVIIIth c.) | Copy id. 02132749 |
| 141 | J 48 J | [Capital letter][Arabic number] [Capital letter] | In brown ink on the spine | Ravenna, Biblioteca comunale Classense | old shelfmark of the library (XVIIIth c.); variant of n. 140 | Copy id. 02132750 |
| 142 | C IIII XX XVII [paraphe] | [Chiffre romain] [paraphe] | à l'encre brune en bas du dernier feuillet imprimé ou en haut de la page de titre ; parfois précédé des lettres A ou B | Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine | Cote apposée à Amboise sur les livres saisis dans la bibliothèque des rois aragonais de Naples par Charles VIII en 1495 | Copy id. 02132662 |
| 143 | M D II | [Chiffre romain] | à l'encre brune, dans la marge sup. du 1er feuillet avec texte (parfois surmonté d’un trait) | Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine | Cote attribuée par Nicolas Rigault aux livres de la Bibl. royale (Paris) en 1622 (1er catalogue : cotes surmontées d'un trait ; second catalogue : cotes sans trait ou en toutes lettres, cf. pattern 144) | Copy id. 02132662 |
| 144 | huit cents trois | [nombre en toutes lettres minuscules] | à l'encre brune en haut du premier feuillet imprimé, biffé | Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine | Cote attribuée par Nicolas Rigault aux livres de la Bibl. royale (Paris) en 1622 (2e catalogue seulement) | Copy id. 02133233 |
| 145 | MM. 4. p. 873 | [Lettre majuscule qui peut être doublée ou triplée]. [chiffre arabe]. [p pour page]. [Chiffre arabe] | à l'encre brune sur la page de titre ou au premier feuillet imprimé | Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine | Système utilisé par Desmarais au milieu du 18e s. pour préparer un catalogue thématique des ouvrages d'histoire ; se retrouve sur le catalogue en cartes à jouer. | Copy id. 02132865 |
| 146 | Tabula historie III | Tabula [discipline en latin] [chiffre romain] | à l'encre noire au départ du texte, biffé | Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine | Cote dite « de la bibliothèque de Blois », attribuée par Matthieu Lavisse après le transfert de la bibliothèque royale de Blois à Fontainbleau (1544) | Copy id 02132731 |
| 147 | X 1767 B | [Lettre majuscule] [Chiffre arabe] [Lettre majuscule] | à l'encre noire au feuillet de garde | Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine | Cotation mise en place par Nicolas Clément pour les livres de la Bibliothèque royale (Nicolas Clément, 1er catalogue 1675-1684) | Copy id 02132672 |
| 148 | 90 / 12 | [chiffre romain] / [chiffre romain] | deux chiffres romains superposés, à l'encre brune, au contreplat. | Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine | Cotation de la bibliothèque de Raphaël Trichet du Fresne ; elle est reportée dans un exemplaire annoté de son catalogue imprimé (1662) : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9925652 | Copy id 02133245 |
| 149 | Vélins 620 | Vélins [chiffre arabe] | sur étiquette impr. collée au dos de l'ouvrage ; sur étiquette impr. collée au contre-plat supérieur | Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine | Cotation de la collection de livres imprimés sur vélin à la Réserve des livres rares de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, à l'origine constituée par Joseph Van Praet. Cf. Catalogue des livres imprimés sur vélin de la Bibliothèque du Roi. Paris, De Bure frères, 1822-1828. 6 vol et Delisle (Léopold), Inventaire alphabétique des livres imprimés sur vélin de la Bibliothèque nationale. Complément du catalogue publié par Van Praet, Paris, Champion, 1877 | Copy id 02132677 |
| 150 | E3.3.8 | [Capital letter][Arabic number].[Arabic number].[Arabic number] | Dublin, Marsh's Library | Dublin, Marsh's Library | Copy Id. 02146215 | |
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