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Professor W. M. Lindsay in his NOkte Latinae (Cambridge University

Press, 21s, net) has given an exhaustive account of abbreviation in Latin manuscripts of the early minuscule period. " The project," he tells us in his preface, " has been fairly realized of examining every extant minuscule MS. of the eighth century, and a sufficient number of the first half of the ninth." The book is likely to be a most useful addition to the literature of palaeography.