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When recording dates in Latin documents, it is important to be aware of the customs of the area where the record is being kept.

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The most comprehensive is Lexicon Abbreviaturarum by Adriano Cappelli, available online for free at. It may also be useful to consult a dictionary of Latin abbreviations.

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When faced with what appears to be an abbreviated date, it can be helpful to look at previous entries to see if the scribe wrote out the full word at the beginning of a page, and to check a number list for the full spelling of the name. Scribes frequently abbreviated common numeric expressions, such as writing mill o or m mo instead of millesimo when recording a date. Before the 'U' the scribe may place a '1' instead of an 'M' (such as with our 1591 example.) This 'U' like character signifes the space between the thousands place and the hundreds place. Some of the older documents you look at may use the following symbol: Small variations do occur, especially when scribes used lower case letters to represent the numerals, as shown in the chart of roman numerals below. Roman numerals were also written similarly to how they appear today. millesimo quingentesimo quinquagesimo primo millesimus quingentesimus quinquagesimus primo The following table shows the Cardinal, Nominative Ordinal, and Ablative Ordinal spellings of numbers in Latin. When expressing a date, numbers are most commonly expressed as ordinal numbers in the ablative case. However, when numbers functioned as descriptive ordinals in a sentence, they were declined differently depending on how they were used in the sentence. When expressing a quantity, scribes would write out the cardinal form of a number. Many times, scribes will choose to write out a number in Latin. Similarly shaped numbers such as 1 and 7 or 5 and 9 may still be confused, but a close reading of the document will usually result in the correct understanding of which number has been written. Because Arabic numbers are still used today, they can be fairly easy to read. Scribes may write out the date numerically, or express it in Arabic numbers or Roman numerals. In Latin records, numbers are written in a variety of ways.

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