Meanings
reportative formulation (a set phrase which is used to report something (i.e. tell of something which the speaker did not experience firsthand), e.g. a story, a quotation, etc.)
Die hiſtoriſche Berichtsformel: ἐὰν εἴπῃ ὁ ποὺς, wenn der Fus ſpraͤche.The historical reporting formula: ἐὰν εἴπῃ ὁ ποὺς, when the foot would speak.
Switzerland · bureaucratesereport formula (a set phrase used in official documents)
Als Probe von den Ihnen lezthin angekündigten altteutschen Denkmählern schicke ich Ihnen eine Berichtsformel aus dem XIten Iahrhunderte mit der Uebersetzung und den Anmerkungen eines ungenannten Benediktbeurischen Religiosen.As a sample of the old German monuments which you recently announced, I am sending you a reporting formula from the XIth century with the translation and comments of an unnamed Benedictine monk.