Timothy Bright, Charactery: An Art of Short, Swift, and Secret Writing by Character (1588)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1588
Author
Timothy Bright Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
Characterie. An Arte of shorte, swifte, and secrete writing by Character. Inuented by Timothie Bright, Doctor of Phisike
Publication place
London
Printer
I. Windet
Publisher
Timothy Bright
Transcription source
EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- shorthand
- thesaurus
Summary
An English word-list with glosses, followed by a table of concept terms with words associated with them ("Appellatiue words")
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: (a) Abandon Forsake
(b) AER
Breath
Exhalation
Miste
Reeke
Steame
Vapour
sample: (a) Abandon Forsake
(b) AER
Breath
Exhalation
Miste
Reeke
Steame
Vapour
STC
3743
Criticisms
Carlton, William J. "Shorthand Books." Bibliotheca Pepysiana. Part IV. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1940. 1-6. view record
Friedrich, Paul E. "Studien zur englischen Stenographie im Zeitalter Shakespeares: Timothe Brights Characterie entwicklungsgeschichtlich und kritisch betrachtet." Archiv für Schriftkunde 1.3-4 (1915-16): 88-140, 147-88. view record
Pocknell, Edward. "Timothy Bright's, or the first English, Shorthand, 1588." Shorthand 2 (1884): 126-32. view record
Friedrich, Paul E. "Studien zur englischen Stenographie im Zeitalter Shakespeares: Timothe Brights Characterie entwicklungsgeschichtlich und kritisch betrachtet." Archiv für Schriftkunde 1.3-4 (1915-16): 88-140, 147-88. view record
Pocknell, Edward. "Timothy Bright's, or the first English, Shorthand, 1588." Shorthand 2 (1884): 126-32. view record
