An abbreviator (plural "abbreviators" in English, abbreviatores in Latin) or breviator was a writer of the Papal Chancery who adumbrated and prepared...

consilio" of 29 June 1908, signed the papal Bulls instead of the earlier abbreviatores. Apostolic protonotaries supernumerary (protonotarii apostolici supranumerarii)...

Correctors, abolished by Pius VII, only a substitute-corrector among the Abbreviatores was maintained In the regular order of the Minims it was the style of...

or ranks ; the one called abbreviatores de parco majore, who are twelve in number, and all prelates; the other, abbreviatores de parco minore, called also...

Nicholas V, who made him economous of St. Peter's Basilica. He served as Abbreviatore de parco maggiore under Pope Eugene IV; as corrector of papal letters...

Llançol i de Borja (the future Pope Alexander VI). In Rome, he became abbreviatore di parco minore; then a papal notary; and then a protonotary apostolic...

Alexander VI), eventually becoming the cardinal's secretary. By 1481, he was abbreviatore di parco minore. On 4 February 1484, he became a canon of the cathedral...

made a canon of the Liberian Basilica on 1 April. He later became an abbreviatore del parco maggiore on 1 January 1876, protonotary apostolic ad instar...

daughter of Nicodemo Uffreduzzo, Patrician of Todi. Giovanni had been Abbreviatore del Parco Maggiore and Bishop of Cervia (1534–1545). He was appointed...