Short writing, began by nature compliated [sic] by art manifesting the irregularity of placing the artificial before the natural of symbolical contractions: and proposing a method more suited to sense, and more fully answering y [sic] requisited of a compleat character in the shortning both of words and sentences. Invented, taught & published with plain directions examples and a specimen of the writing by Laurence Steel

Title

Short writing, began by nature compliated [sic] by art manifesting the irregularity of placing the artificial before the natural of symbolical contractions: and proposing a method more suited to sense, and more fully answering y [sic] requisited of a compleat character in the shortning both of words and sentences. Invented, taught & published with plain directions examples and a specimen of the writing by Laurence Steel

Author

Steel, Laurence, d. 1684.

Publication

[N.p.] :: Sold in Bristoli by the author, & also by Charles Allen, bookseller in Broad-street of the same citty: and in London by Benjamin Clark stationer; in George Court Lumbard street and others,

printed in the yeare 1678.

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"Short writing, began by nature compliated [sic] by art manifesting the irregularity of placing the artificial before the natural of symbolical contractions: and proposing a method more suited to sense, and more fully answering y [sic] requisited of a compleat character in the shortning both of words and sentences. Invented, taught & published with plain directions examples and a specimen of the writing by Laurence Steel." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61383.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• The Explanation of the Title and Method viz. Shortwriting begun by Nature &c.
• part - 1
  • headnote
  • The Table of Emblems.
  • discourse
    • The Improve∣ment of the former Table by usefull end∣ings for the contracting of Sentences.
    • Proper Endings for the enlarging of any word of the Table as occasion is.
    • How other words not insert∣ed in the Table may be contracted by the same endings. How the marks for words and Sentences doe consist, when they meet in one Clause.
• The Second Part, shewing how words may be regularly written, containes the Alphabet, the Conson∣ants and Vowels
  • subpart
  • Places For the furtherance of speed, some Conso∣nants are this shortned which are called Contacts.
  • The rest of the Consonants are two or more Letters of the Alpha∣bet regularly joyned together. First observe, what Letters are joyned in the Cha∣racter, then learne the words signified by them. Some marks stand only for the parts of words: as car cor, mes, mis, per, rec, sah, sol, whose use see Column 23
  • The Contracti∣on of useful clause of Sentences belonging to the Table of Consonants.
  • The usefulness of the parts of words inserted in both Tables, Exemplified Explained
  • Additional parts of words, both for the beginning & end, with Examples of words written by them
  • The five Vowels are not to be exprest by their own Characters, unlesse when they begin a won but are understood by Places.
  • Examples of long words written by the Alphabet alone, and also in conjunction with other parts of Words
  • Note, no more Letters, Vowels or Consonants are to be exprest in this Art, then what will suffice to sound the word.
  • Examples of words contracted by ye moission of Vowels & parts of words in the beginning, without hurt to the Sound
• The Third Part, teaching a New & more expedite may for the Contract∣ing of Sentences by ye Prefixes, the Tenses & the Persons with their Places. Note, the Rarity of these Contractions is, that they doe not burthen ye Memory with any other Marks or Rides then what are used for words.
  • subpart
  • The Tenses or Times, which do resemble ye Ending Consonants
  • Contractions. made by the joyning of the persons & Tenses, together with the Nega∣tive (Not) and such Verbs as usually follow them
  • The Places of the Persons and manner of expressing Interrogatives, and placeing of the Tenses in Order
  • The manner of placeing the Tenses after many compleat Verbs Like∣wise a Rule for Verbs of Motion
  • The use of this Third Part may be seen in the underwritten Contrac∣tions, by which ye Lear∣ner may frame all others of ye like nature
• A · BRIEF · SPECIMEN · OF · T̄E · WRITING ❀
  • The Matter compri∣sed in the foregoing Circle in words at Length.
• A summary Collection of the Characters of this Book into Coherent matter, which is to be the Learners first Exercise to read and write out.
• colophon