- plural of liber.
libri
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Gradually, however, voluntary flagellation appeared in the libri poenitentiales as a very efficacious means of penance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
Have we not many similar instances, e. g. "codd." for "codices," "libb." for "libri;" or, one of every-day occurrence, "pp." for "pages?"
From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
In the second Punic war, the senate had commanded the surrender of the libri vaticini or precationes, and any written art of sacrificing.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
The two volumes are full of curious and readable matter, and as they usually deal with the libri rarissimi, we have to accept the accounts and extracts in the absence of the originals.
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt
A second part, under the title of Pandeclarium sive partitionum universalium Conradi Gesneri Ligurini libri xxi., appeared in 1548; only nineteen books being then concluded.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various
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