Jane,
I checked Cappelli and found PPP (with several possible meanings: Parentes pii posuerunt, pater pius posuit, Patri piissimo posuit (or posuerunt), Perpetuo Principi, etc.) and PPPPP (Praefecto praetorio per provinciam Pannonicam), but no PPPP. Perhaps the abbreviation is a corruption of one of these?
Kira
Wickenden Jane <cat1@INM.MOD.UK> wrote:Thank you Amy. Unfortunately the first site does not get through the office fire-wall, and the second has P.P.P. but not P.P.P.P. ...
Much obliged, however.
Jane
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From: Exlibris [mailto:EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME] On Behalf Of Amy Dawson
Sent: 27 January 2006 14:29
To: EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME
Subject: Re: [EXLIBRIS] Latin abbreviation query, brief.
FYI.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01022a.htmhttp://asgle.classics.unc.edu/abbrev/latin/Popp.htm
Amy E. Dawson
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Cleveland Public Library
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----- Original Message -----
From: Wickenden Jane
Date: Friday, January 27, 2006 9:15 am
Subject: [EXLIBRIS] Latin abbreviation query, brief.
> My Latin has failed me.
>
> Can anyone tell me what is meant by the abbreviation P.P.P.P.
> after the author's name on an eighteenth-century Swiss book?
>
> Not that I _need_ to know: but I've been asked by a curious reader.
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jane
>
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