VMs: Re: More shorthand trivia

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For any Voynichologists near Edinburgh, the National Library of Scotland 
also has a shorthand collection:

http://www.nls.ac.uk/print_collect/list.cfm?letter=W

WARDEN SHORTHAND COLLECTION

The collection formed by John Mabon Warden, of Edinburgh, Vice-President of 
the Esperantista Akademio, was presented to the Library in 1927. Warden 
built up a comprehensive collection of shorthand manuals from the 16th to 
the 20th century, mainly in English, but with c. 500 works in foreign 
languages, together with works of literature, sermons, reports of trials, 
etc. reproduced in shorthand. The collection contains c. 4,600 printed 
items comprising books, pamphlets and runs of periodicals, and 60 
manuscripts. STC (see p. 3) and Wing (see p. 3) items include Timothy 
Bright's Characterie, an Arte of Shorte, Swifte and Secrete Writing by 
Character (1588), Samuel Botley's Maximum in Minimo (1674), William 
Hopkins' The Flying Pen-man (1674), and editions of Thomas Shelton's 
Tachygraphy and Tutor, Jeremiah Rich's The Pen's Dexterity Completed, and 
William Mason's Pen Pluck'd from an Eagle's Wing. A large section of the 
collection is devoted to the work of Sir Isaac Pitman and his successors, 
including books reprinted in Pitman's phonography or modifications of it.

Typescript inventory of the manuscripts.