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 Examples. Erasmus (Desiderius). Flacius (Mathias), Illyricus. Linnæus (Carl).

(3) In the spelling of foreign personal names the vernacular form is adopted, except in the case of ancient Greeks, names of persons mentioned in the Bible, and the official names of sovereigns, princes of sovereign houses, popes, and saints. In these the English form is preferred.

(4) Foreign names, excepting French, preceded by a preposition, by an article, or by both, are entered under the letter immediately following. French names preceded by a preposition only, follow the same rule; those preceded by an article, or by a preposition and an article, are entered under the initial letter of the article or preposition. English surnames of foreign origin are to be entered under their initial, even if originally belonging to a preposition.

Examples.

Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von), not Von Goethe Colonne (Guido delle), not Dalle Colonne. Latour (Antoine de), not De Latour. Le Fevre (Jacques) d'Etaples, not Fevre (Jacques de). Du Moulin (Pierre), not Moulin (Pierre du). De Vere (Robert), Earl of Oxford, not Vere (Robert de). De La Rue (James). Van Buren (Martin).

(5) Foreign compound surnames are entered under the initial of the first of them. In compound Dutch and English surnames the last name is preferred if no entry of a work by the same person occur in the catalogue under the first name only.

Examples.

Lamartine de Prat (Marie Louis Alphonse de). Smith (William Robertson). Locker, afterwards Locker-Lampson (Frederick).