FIRST-LINE BREAKDOWN: 2nd digit = period designation; 3rd and fourth digits = country designation; 5th character (for 4800) = century
SECOND-LINE BREAKDOWN: first two digits = manuscript type; following four characters = collection (abbreviation of the city and library)
THIRD-LINE BREAKDOWN: Three-letter abbreviation for the generic name of the manuscript and folio number; e.g., Par112 (Paris Psalter, f.112)
Sample:
4367 Hiberno-Saxon manuscript
16LoLB 16
= Gospel Book + LoLB = London, British Library
Lin26v Lindisfarne Gospels,
folio 26 verso
| 10 | Bibles |
| 11 | Old Testament |
| 12 | Pentateuchs |
| 13 | Octateuchs |
| 14 | Psalters |
| 15 | New Testament |
| 16 | Gospel Books |
| 17 | Lectionary (Evangeliary, Evangelistarium, Pericope, etc.) |
| 18 | Epistle |
| 19 | Apocalypse |
| 20 | Liturgical |
| 21 | Missal, Sacramentary |
| 22 | Pontifical, Benedictional |
| 23 | Graduals |
| 24 | Exultet Rolls |
| 25 | Antiphonal, Troper |
| 26 | Hymnals, Chorales, Sticherarion, Siddur |
| 30 | Religious, Non-Liturgical |
| 31 | Bestiary |
| 32 | Martyrologies, Menologians |
| 33 | Saints' Lives |
| 34 | Books of Hours, Breviary |
| 35 | Calendars |
| 36 | Canon Law, Haggadah |
| 40 | Theological |
| 41 | Commentaries (Beatus Mss.) |
| 42 | Patristic Literature (Sermons) |
| 43 | Homilies |
| 50 | Secular |
| 51 | Scientific (Herbals, Medical Treatises, Astronomy, Astrology) |
| 52 | Historical (Chronicles, Epics, Biographies) |
| 53 | Literary (Classical texts, Vernacular texts) |
| 54 | Legal (Rules, Statutes, Orders & Law Collections, Charters) |
| 55 | Shan namas ("Book of Kings"; Islamic) |
Updated 3/21/02