10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TACHYGRAPHICAL»
Discover the use of
tachygraphical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tachygraphical and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Journal of Hellenic Studies
The tachygraphical matter in the book falls into three divisions: first, certain
passages in the text, where, departing from his ordinary usage, the scribe
suddenly as it were drops into shorthand; secondly, a. formal table of
tachygraphical and ...
2
Journal of Theological Studies
Its tachygraphical character. A small palaeographical point seems to establish
the extreme probability that this archetype, which is not necessarily identical with
G, was a minuscule written at least to some extent in a semi-tachygraphic hand.
3
An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography
V If- we see a sign representing a particular syllable differentiated by being
doubled or marked to represent its homophones. The same system will be
observed in other instances. a is early represented by the tachygraphical sign, a
horizontal ...
Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, 1912
4
Studies in the History of Book Illumination
Except in the miniature of St Matthew, these books or scrolls are covered with
inscriptions written in small tachygraphical signs. Unfortunately the inscription in
the open book of St Luke is almost obliterated, so that only two or three
characters ...
Carl Adam Johan Nordenfalk, 1992
5
Greek abbreviation in the fifteenth century
After this time, though abbreviation as such was constant, it limited itself to certain
syllables (which eventually entered into print) ; the Basilian system went out of
use, and only a portion even of the commoner tachygraphical system was ...
Thomas William Allen, British Academy, 1926
6
The philosophy of arithmetic: exhibiting a progressive view ...
The Chaldean astronomers, and their successors, in the Lower Empire, although
acquainted with the simple and elegant system of the ancient Greek notation, yet
preferred in certain cases a sort of tachygraphical marks, extremely abbreviated ...
7
The Book of Enoch: Translated from the Ethiopic, with ...
Here comes into consideration also a small fragment of the Greek Enoch found
after the discovery and publication of the Ethiopic version. We refer to the Greek
text of chap. 89 : 42-49, written with tachygraphical notes, and published from a ...
8
The Descent of Manuscripts
65: ut fateare sed Here lzic dz'missfi is written in full, so also hic pmutatiz E, with
tachygraphical equivalents for both. Here again cf. A. f. lozra Div. ii. 127: quam
derecto+Fat. 41 : eae causae Quod hic sequitur requiritur in primo libro de natura
...
9
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
As a bachelor in Virginia, in 1770, Thomas Jefferson used Shelton's
tachygraphical alphabet to record in code what appear to be sexual liaisons.
James Wilson, a renowned jurist and a signer of the Declaration of
Independence, was reputed, ...
10
United States Diplomatic Codes and Ciphers: 1775-1938
Shelton's Tachygraphical Alphabet, 48, 119 Sherman, William, 217 Ships. See
names of individual ships Short, William, 104, 133, 148n. correspondence with
Thomas Jefferson, 37, 120-123, 176 Sickles, General Daniel E., 224, 226, 234-
237, ...
