Re: VMs: OT: Vindolanda Tablets

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 20:09 03/11/2003 -0600, Dennis wrote:
>         Perhaps others know of this, but I didn't.  These
> tablets, from a Roman fort in England, are a large
> corpus of antique Roman handwriting:
> http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/tablets/index.shtml

This well-constructed site contains answers to just about everything you're 
likely to ask about Roman writing tablets - though whether that "rings your 
bell" or not is another matter entirely. :-)

As far as Tironian notes go, here are some related books from the site's 
extensive bibliography: for example, I'll be sure to have a look at Ganz 
(1990) next time I'm in the British Library...

H.Boge (1973), Griechische Tachygraphie und tironische Noten. Berlin

G.Costamagna, M.F.Baroni, L.Zagni (1983), Notae Tironianae quae in lexicis 
et in chartis reperiuntur novo discrimine ordinatae. Fonti e studi del 
corpus Membranarum Italicarum, Ser.2, Fonti Medievali 10. Rome

D.Ganz (1990), "On the history of Tironian notes", in P.F.Ganz (ed. 1990): 
35-51

P.F.Ganz (ed. 1990), Tironische Noten. Wiesbaden

A.Mentz (1944), Die tironischen Noten. Berlin

W.Schmitz (1893), Commentarii notarum Tironianarum cum prolegomenis 
adnotationibus criticis et exegeticis notarumque indice alphabetico. Leipzig

At 20:09 03/11/2003 -0600, Dennis wrote:
>         On the site I find this reference to Tironian notae:
> > Among the tablets is a small group of documents in
> > shorthand, the only Latin shorthand documents to
> > survive from classical antiquity. They remain undeciphered.

I couldn't find this quote at all - can you remember where on the site you 
found it?

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


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