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List of RISM abbreviations

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The RISM library abbreviations, or sigla, are used for identifying locations of musical manuscripts. The special volume RISM-Bibliothekssigel. Gesamtverzeichnis (RISM Library Sigla. Complete Index), which appeared in 1999, has been available in a regularly updated version on the RISM website since 2006 and in a searchable database online since 2011.[1]

The complete list is very long (see pdf). Only a selection of major source locations are listed here:

References

  1. ^ RISM Zentralredaktion, announcement 29 November 2011 and Birgit Grün, "RISM Library Sigla," trans. Keith Harris, Forum Musikbibliothek 27 (2006/4), p. 331ff. Background information about the sigla
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External links

Online Directory of RISM Library Sigla

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