Sources for Latin printing town names

If you have additions to make to this list or to the main list of Latin printing towns, please mail

N.B. There is now another list of Latin Place Names found in the imprints of books printed before 1801 . This database was compiled from the imprint information in cataloging records of several Anglo-American research libraries. It can be found at http://www.lib.byu.edu/~catalog/people/rlm/latin/names.htm.

See also the Web files for Graesse's Orbis Latinus at http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html

J.-C. Brunet

Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres; Supplement: Dictionnaire de géographie ancienne et moderne à l'usage du libraire et de l'amateur de livres ... par un bibliophile [Pierre Deschamps], Paris, 1870.

Geoffrey Ashall Glaister

Glossary of the book (1960, 1979, rep 1996).

R B McKerrow

Introduction to bibliography for literary students (1927, corr edn 1928; reprinted with introduction by David McKitterick, 1994)
Appendix Seven, pp. 337-340.

Orbis latinus

J.G.Th. Grasse, Orbis Latinus : Lexikon lateinischer geographischer Namen des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, grossausg., bearb. und Leraugegeben von H. Plechl unter Mitarbeit von S.C. Plechl, Braunschweig, 1972

R. A. Peddie

Place Names in Imprints: An Index to the Latin and Other Forms Used on Title Pages (Grafton, London, 1932 or Gale Research reprint, Detroit, 1968)

William T. Stearn

Botanical Latin: History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary. (4th edition, David & Charles, 1992).
"Geographical Names", pp. 209-228.