{"id":50157,"date":"2019-05-15T20:49:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/tironian-notes-roman-system-of-shorthand\/"},"modified":"2019-05-15T20:50:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T18:50:50","slug":"tironian-notes-roman-system-of-shorthand","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/tironian-notes-roman-system-of-shorthand\/","title":{"rendered":"Tironian notes – Roman system of shorthand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tironian notes (notae Tironianae<\/em>) were a Roman system of rapid writing, which appeared in the last years of the Roman Republic<\/a>. It assumed usage of shorthand. <\/p>\n

According to Plutarch, they were developed by Marcus Tullius Tiro<\/b>, secretary of the Marcus Tullius Cicero<\/a> (106-43 BCE). To be able to faithfully record the speech of his principal, Tiro invented a kind of contemporary shorthand. The special abbreviations used by Tiro were called notae Tironianae<\/em>. There is also a version that assigns the invention of the rapid typing system – and thus also the abbreviations – to the poet Ennius<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tironian system gained great popularity, it was used by writers who were recording the speeches of officials at folk meetings and in the senate<\/a>, speeches in which legal issues were raised and which often became the basis for new rights themselves. These writers, due to their use of notae Tironianae<\/em>, were called notary public<\/b>. At the end of the previous era, there were already around five thousand such notes – the task of their writing down were undertaken by Seneca the Elder (55 BCE – about 40 CE).<\/p>\n

Notae<\/em> were heavily processed and extremely simplified letters or fragments of letters, of which one characteristic element often remained. The inflectional endings were determined by a set of dots and commas with a position-dependent relation to the neighboring letter. Only a few characters originating from Tironian notes<\/em> entered the medieval brachygrafic systems. On the other hand, those gave birth to the medieval shortening system through special characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36157,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-50157","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/50157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/50157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=50157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}