List of RISM abbreviations

The RISM library abbreviations, or sigla, are used for identifying locations of musical manuscripts. The special volume ''RISM-Bibliothekssigel. Gesamtverzeichnis'' (RISM Library Sigla. Complete Index), which appeared in 1999, has been available in a regularly updated version on the RISM website since 2006 and in a searchable database online since 2011.

The complete list is very long (see pdf). Only a selection of major source locations are listed here:


 * F-Pn Bibliothèque nationale de France
 * GB-Lbl British Library
 * GB-Ob Bodleian Library
 * I-FEca it:Curia Arcivescovile di Ferrara e Comacchio, Archivio
 * I-MOas it:Archivio di Stato di Modena
 * I-MOe it:Biblioteca estense universitaria di Modena
 * E-Mn es:Biblioteca Nacional de España
 * E-Bbc es:Biblioteca de Cataluña