Re: VMs: Re: Janus Gruterus' dictionary of shorthand characters...?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Janus Gruter[us] seems to have been an interesting character: a librarian & 
philologist, he lived in exile in England for a while, produced (amongst 
many other things) a 3-volume florilegium (in his case, a collection of 
proverbs and sayings from various European countries).

One typical proverb: "a woman without a man is like a garden without 
grass". Now, of course, we're more likely to find this as "...is like a 
fish without a bicycle". You choose which you prefer. :-)

From what I've seen, it seems quite clear that Gruter[us] would have been 
exactly the kind of person who would have compiled a dictionary of 
shorthand symbols. It seems as though what Wilkins was referring to was 
"Inscriptiones antiquae


Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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