Editing Tironian notes (section)

{{Short description|Roman shorthand system}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}}
{{Infobox writing system
|type=shorthand
|creator=[[Marcus Tullius Tiro]]
|date= 60s BC
|time= {{nowrap|1st century BC – 16th century AD}}
|status=a few Tironian symbols are still in modern use
|languages=[[Latin]]
|sample=Laon 444 275v.png
|imagesize=
|unicode= Et: [[General Punctuation|U+204A]], [[Supplemental Punctuation|U+2E52]]; [[Medieval Unicode Font Initiative|MUFI]]
}}

'''Tironian notes''' ({{langx|la|notae Tironianae|links=no}}) are a form of thousands of signs that were formerly used in a system of [[shorthand]] ('''Tironian shorthand''') dating from the 1st century BCE and named after [[Marcus Tullius Tiro|Tiro]], a personal secretary to [[Marcus Tullius Cicero]], who is often credited as their inventor.<ref name="DiRenzo">{{cite journal |title=His Master's Voice: Tiro and the Rise of the Roman Secretarial Class |last=Di Renzo |first=Anthony |date=2000 |journal=Journal of Technical Writing & Communication |volume=30 |issue=2 |url= http://faculty.ithaca.edu/direnzo/docs/scholarship/mastersvoice.pdf |access-date=31 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160708114901/http://faculty.ithaca.edu/direnzo/docs/scholarship/mastersvoice.pdf |archive-date=8 July 2016}}</ref> Tiro's system consisted of about 4,000 signs,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Job |first=Barbara |editor-last=Schierholz |editor-first=Stefan J. |title=Kürzel |trans-title=Shorthand |url=https://www.degruyter.com/database/WSK/entry/wsk_id_wsk_artikel_artikel_21967/html |access-date=2023-01-22 |series=Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online |language=de}}</ref> extended to 5,000 signs by others. During the [[medieval period]], Tiro's notation system was taught in European monasteries and expanded to a total of about 13,000 signs.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Guénin |first1=Louis-Prosper |last2=Guénin |first2=Eugène |date=1908 |title=Histoire de la sténographie dans l'antiquité et au moyen-âge; les notes tironiennes |location=Paris |publisher=Hachette et cie |language=fr |oclc=301255530}}</ref> The use of Tironian notes lasted into the 17th&nbsp;century. A few Tironian signs are still used today.<ref name="Mitzschke 1882">{{cite book |last1=Mitzschke |first1=Paul Gottfried |last2=Lipsius |first2=Justus |translator-last=Heffley |translator-first=Norman P. |date=1882  |orig-date=1875 |title=Biography of the father of stenography, Marcus Tullius Tiro; together with the Latin letter, "De notis", concerning the origin of shorthand |oclc=11943552}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kopp |first1=Ulrich Friedrich |last2=Bischoff |first2=Bernhard |date=1965 |title=Lexicon Tironianum |location=Osnabrück |publisher=Zeller |language=de |oclc=2996309}}</ref>