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‖ ˈsigla
[L. sigla neut. pl., perh. a contracted form of sigilla, pl. of sigillum sigil.]
a. Letters (esp. initials) or other characters used to denote words; abbreviations or marks of abbreviation. Also transf. and fig.
1706in Phillips (ed. Kersey). 1801Gentl. Mag. LXXI. ii. 1097 The characters..belong not to any alphabet, but are probably Sigla. 1832Gell Pompeiana II. 122 The sigla which are supposed to be the private marks of the scribes. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 358 The small mark after the T is one of the sigla which it was customary in inscriptions..to put..before and after numeral letters. 1963V. Nabokov Gift ii. 86 On the soft red sand one could make out the sigla of a summer day: the imprints of a dog's paws, the beaded tracks of a wagtail. 1973D. Osmond-Smith tr. Bettetini's Lang. & Technique of Film i. 61 If this image comes to be interpreted as the sigla of the preconceptual schema..it will only be of value for its semantic content.
b. Editorial designations of versions of an early literary text, esp. those used in the preparation of an edition. Also sing. siglum.
1939R. B. McKerrow Prolegomena for Oxf. Shakespeare iii. 83 Round brackets enclosing a siglum are also used as a warning that the edition thus indicated has a reading which differs. 1950Classica et Medievalia XI. 7, I prefer to use the same siglum for the New Testament and the Patrick section [of a manuscript]. 1962E. J. Dobson in Davis & Wrenn Eng. & Medieval Studies 128, I use the following sigla: A = MS. C.C.C.C. 402 (ed. J. R. R. Tolkien, E.E.T.S. 249, 1962); C = MS. Cotton Cleopatra C VI; [etc.]. Ibid., References to any text other than A are preceded by the siglum of that text. 1975N. & Q. Feb. 53/2 Twenty texts of the Epistola Cuthberti are not recorded by Dobbie. We give them below; for each of those that Brotanek enumerates we give his siglum..; we also give some versions not listed by Brotanek, with our sigla.
Hence siˈglarian a., pertaining to sigla.
1818Burney in Parr's Wks. (1828) VIII. 643 Garrard is the only book on the Siglarian subject which I possess. |