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Kelly Minot RafeyAWLL12: Diversity of Writing Systems
27 March 2019
The Character of
Early Modern Shorthand1588–1700
Heath, Stenographie (1644), Title Page,Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, via EEBO
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I. What is Early Modern Shorthand?
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J[ohn] B[ullokar], An English expositor (1616), fol. D4v. Huntington Library, via EEBO
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Page from Samuel Pepys’s diary, 30 June 1661, written in Thomas Shelton’s ‘Tachygraphy’ (1641)
Pepys Library, Magdalene College Library, Cambridge
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Open view of William Hewer’s diary and commonplace book (contemporaneous with Pepys’s diary), written in Shelton’s ‘Tachygraphy’ (1641)
Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng 991.1
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William Mather, The young man’s companion(1692), pp. 45–6. Trinity College, Dublin, 24.y.17
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II. How are Shorthand characters formed?
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1. Alphabetically
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Timothy Bright, Characterie(1588), Title Page.
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, via
EEBO
Peter Bales, Writing Schoolmaster (1590), Title Page,British Library, C.194a.829
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Timothy Bright, Characterie (1588),Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, via EEBO
The first 24 words in Bright’s ‘Characterie’
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Bright’s ‘Characterie’ put to use
Jane Seager, The divine prophesies of the ten sibills. (1578), British Library, Add MS 10037. Image from wikipedia.
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Epistle to Titus, in Mr Bright’s Short-hand Character (1586)
British Library, Lansdowne MS 51/27, letter from Vincent Skinner to Michael Hicks
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Peter Bales, Writing Schoolmaster (1590),UL, University of Cambridge, Dd*.3.43(E)
The first 24 words in Bales’ ‘Brachygraphie’
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2. Like Letters
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Theophilus Metcalfe (1610–1646?)
William Mason(1645?–1718?)
William Addy(fl. 1693–1695)Jeremiah Rich (1630?–1667?)
William Hopkins (fl. 1673)
Samuel Shelton
(fl. 1672)
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Henry Dix, A nevv art of brachygraphy (1633),National Library of Scotland, via EEBO
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MAJUSCULEminuscule
Italic
Henry Dix, A nevv art of brachygraphy (1633),National Library of Scotland, via EEBO
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Secretary
MAJUSCULEminuscule
Italic
Henry Dix, A nevv art of brachygraphy (1633),National Library of Scotland, via EEBO
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Secretary
MAJUSCULEminuscule
Italic
Shorthand
Henry Dix, A nevv art of brachygraphy (1633),National Library of Scotland, via EEBO
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Henry Dix, A nevv art of brachygraphy (1633), p. 39, National Library of Scotland, via EEBO
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3. Phonetically
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John Willis, The art of stenography (1602), British Library, C.58.BB.20; [text from] fol. B6r, Folger Shakespeare Library, via EEBO
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Physickes/fɪsɪks/F[y]six
orthography
sound
abbreviation
Character
‘Physics’
John Willis, The art of stenography (1602), British Library, C.58.BB.20
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4. Ideographically/Logographically
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Elisha Coles, The Newest, Plainest, and the Shortest Short-hand (1674), University Library, Cambridge, via EEBO
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John Willis, The art of stenography (1602), British Library, C.58.BB.20;fol F4v, Folger Shakespeare Library, via EEBO
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☿Planet
DayMetal
AnatomyColour
AgeSentiment
StoneTree
BeastFowl
♄ ♀ ☽☉♂♃
John Willis, The art of stenography (1602), British Library, C.58.BB.20;fol G1v, Folger Shakespeare Library, via EEBO
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Jeremiah Rich, The Penns Dexterity (1659), unnumbered, Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, via EEBO
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Thomas Heath, Stenography (1664), unnumbered, Bodleian Library, Oxford, via EEBO
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Timothy Bright, Characterie (1588), fol. A3r-v,Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, via EEBO
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Pitman Shorthand (1837)Pitman, Brief Course in Isaac Pitman Shorthand
(New York: Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1914), p. 108.
Gregg Shorthand (1888)Gregg, Gregg Shorthand Manual (New York: Gregg
Publishing Company, 1908), p. 108.
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Jeremiah Rich (1630?–1667?)
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Jeremiah Rich (1630?–1667?)
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William Hopkins (fl. 1673)
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Theophilus Metcalfe (1610–1646?)
William Hopkins (fl. 1673)
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1. Swift
Everardt, Epitome of Stenography (1658), frontispiece.Image from the British Museum Library, London, via EEBO.
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1. Swift
Everardt, Epitome of Stenography (1658), frontispiece.Image from the British Museum Library, London, via EEBO.
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1. Swift
Page from Samuel Pepys’s diary, 30 June 1661, written in Thomas Shelton’s ‘Tachygraphy’ (1641)
Image from Pepys Library, Magdalene College Library, Cambridge.
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1. Swift
Open view of William Hewer’s diary and commonplace book (contemporaneous with Pepys’s diary), written in Shelton’s ‘Tachygraphy’ (1641)
Image of MS Eng 991.1 Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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1. Swift
Everardt, Epitome of Stenography (1658), frontispiece.Image from the British Museum Library, London, via EEBO.
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[left] Images of Rich, The whole book of Psalms [1659?].UL, Cambridge, CCE.66.25[1][right] Images of Rich, [The New Testament], 1659.UL, Cambridge, Syn.9.65.1; [bottom] Houghton Library, 505.6* Miniatures box 4, sec. 6
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Rich, [Sermon in Shorthand], mid-17th century.Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Eng. misc. g. 2.Image from the Bodleian Treasures website.
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1. Swift
Everardt, Epitome of Stenography (1658), frontispiece.Image from the British Museum Library, London, via EEBO.