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The provided passages do not contain any information about "The Burial of the Count of Orgaz" or its practical implications. The passages discuss ecclesiastical abbreviations, the methods of the Bollandists (scholars compiling hagiographies), and the history of manuscript abbreviation systems [1][2][3][4][5]. No passage mentions the painting, its subject, or any practical implications related to it.
Therefore, based strictly on the given text, I cannot answer the question. The passages are entirely unrelated to the topic requested.
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s an easy and safe way of communicating with one another and safeguarding their secrets from enemies and false brethren. Ecclesiastical Abbreviators .—In course of time the Apostolic Chancery adopted this mode of writing as the curial style, still further abridging by omitting the diphthongs ae and oe, and likewise all lines and marks of punctuation. The ecclesiastical Abbreviators are officials of the Holy See, inasmuch as they are among the principal officials of the Apostolic Chancery, which is one of the oldest and most important offices in the Roman Curia. The scope of its labour, as…
es of Belgium and the neighbouring regions. He had not gone beyond Paris to the south, or Cologne and Trier to the east. Bolland made appeal to collaborators, either Jesuits or others, residing in all the different countries of Europe. Then Rosweyde had proposed to publish at first only the original texts, without commentaries or annotations, relegating to the last volumes the studies intended to enable one to appreciate their value and to throw light on their difficulties. Bolland recognized at once how defective this plan was. So he decided to give in connection with each saint and his cult…
o speak of the unique scotica manus or libri scottice scripti (Irish hand, or books written in the medieval Irish hand). Eventually such productive centres of technical manuscripts as the Papal Chancery, the theological schools of Paris and Oxford, and the civil-law school of Bologna set the standards of Abbreviations for all Europe. The medieval manuscripts abound in Abbreviations, owing in part to the abandonment of the uncial, or quasi-uncial, and the almost universal use of the cursive, hand. The medieval writer inherited a few from Christian antiquity; others he invented or adapted, in…
← Methods of Abbreviation Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) Ecclesiastical Abbreviations by Thomas Joseph Shahan Abbreviators → From volume 1 of the work. 90153 Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) — Ecclesiastical Abbreviations Thomas Joseph Shahan Abbreviations, Ecclesiastical. —The words most commonly abbreviated at all times are proper names, titles (official or customary), of persons or corporations, and words of frequent occurrence. A good list of those used in Roman Republican and early Imperial times may be seen in Egbert 's " Latin Inscriptions " (New York, 1896), 417–459. The Jewish scribes…
o give an estimate of the work of these later Bollandists, having himself been a member of the body for too long a time. He is able, however, to cite the appreciations of the most distinguished and capable scholars in this field, who testify that the volumes published by the later Bollandists are in no wise inferior to those of their predecessors of the seventeenth an eighteenth centuries. The reservations made by certain critics in their commendation are generally due to the prolixity of the commentaries, which they think is often excessive, and to the timidity of certain conclusions, which…