Albert Blaise first published his Manuel du latin chretien in 1955. As he mentions in his preface, it was originally intended to be an introduction for his Dictionnaire latin-francais des auteurs chretiens but was eventually published as a separate work. Hence all abbreviations used in citations in the Manuel can be found in the front matter of that dictionary, and all preferences by Blaise to 'the dictionary' refer to that work. The Manuel was reprinted in 1986 with a foreword by the publisher and without the original bibliography since a new, update bibliography was in preparations by G. Sanders and M. Van Uytfaughe.