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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">It's interesting how the discussion is developing, and thanks Jesse for these examples.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">Is anyone aware of printed text that uses other Tironian notes besides the 'et'? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#5E327C">Deborah J. Leslie, MA, MLS | Senior Cataloger | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003 |
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#5E327C">| Opinions her own</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu> <b>On Behalf Of
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 22, 2021 17:16<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Tironian "et" revisited: not an ampersand<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">For me, part of the difficulty of transcribing a Tironian et as an ampersand is that it's confusing for researchers/readers who do know the difference and it contributes to DCRMB's
general inconsistency around transcribing abbreviations/brevigraphs, which is a headache for me whenever I work with incunabula (follow the rule or follow the examples? if I'm following the examples, which one do I take as a model?).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">I have seen Tironian ets in print, and my general sense is that while they're unusual in Roman and italic typefaces, they do show up in early blackletter, which is, not surprisingly,
consistent with what was happening in manuscripts (and may be why I'm more familiar with them than those who work more with literature and the classics).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/dyNTCo2nxmiMm4YT1orjE?domain=loc.gov">https://www.loc.gov/cds/desktop/documents/DCRMBex/DCRMBex_01_ex01.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 12:55, Deborah J. Leslie <<a href="mailto:DJLeslie@folger.edu">DJLeslie@folger.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">Counsel for the opposition reporting in.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">I'm no expert, but here's some of the context surrounding the decision to transcribe a 'Tironian et' as an ampersand. As
Erin mentions, a lot of people were mistaking a blackletter ampersand for a Tironian et. I consulted Paul Needham, incunabulist. Skipping to the end of our conversation, he said that he transcribes all sigla representing 'and' in whatever language as an ampersand.
This approach to transcribing all sigla representing 'and' in print simplifies things and doesn't require that a cataloger know what Tironian notes are. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">Almost all the opposition to this change came from folks in the manuscript community. This got me thinking "why."
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/wTXvCwpyJxt7npxs8jn7c?domain=en.wikipedia.org" target="_blank">Tironian notes</a> were developed as a system of shorthand. Can you call a symbol a Tironian et if other notes
from the system aren't also in use? I could argue that a 7-shaped symbol for 'and' is just a graphical variant of an ampersand, just as both long and short s's are graphical variants of the letter 's'.
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">The widespread misidentification of Tironian et, even by highly experienced catalogers, argues for simplification of treatment in favor of consistency of meaning. </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="gmail-m3225633158616366962msolistparagraph" style="color:#1F497D;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Tironian notes are a manuscript tradition. DCRM(B), and for the moment DCRMR, concerns itself with printed text. I have limited experience with incunables myself, but haven't seen use of Tironian notes (not just the
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">As a system of manuscript shorthand that doesn't generally apply to printed text, it should be a part of manuscript-specific instructions. I would further venture to argue that Tironian et's should only be considered
such when they are used with other Tironian notes as part of a system of shorthand. Otherwise, it's just a siglum representing 'and' and the best representation of that is an ampersand. </span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#2E74B5">Deborah J Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Senior Cataloger | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol Street, S.E. Washington, DC 20003 |
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Erin Blake<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 21 September, 2021 12:24<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Tironian "et" revisited: not an ampersand<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Belatedly realized that there's a super-easy way to tell the difference between a Tironian sign "et" and an ampersand, I just didn't think to articulate it before: an ampersand
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Erin.<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 5:28 PM Erin Blake <<a href="mailto:erin.blake.folger@gmail.com" target="_blank">erin.blake.folger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I think Jessie Sherwood is right: the bottom two examples are just fancy Tironian signs (and if I'd opened up my copy of Jean F. Preston and Laetitia Yeandle's
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I was trying to make an e-t ligature out of them, but looking at handwritten Tironian "et" examples (and handwritten examples where "&" replaces the sound "et" in a word that isn't
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I'm going to update the blog accordingly.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Mon, 20 Sept 2021 at 12:43, Jessie Sherwood <<a href="mailto:jcsherwood@law.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">jcsherwood@law.berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">One question I have is why ampersands and Tironian notes are treated the same. To me they are separate symbols and ampersands should
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">That gave me a deja-vu feeling, so I went to the DCRM-L archives, and sure enough, back in
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2003</a>, then again in <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/AxqzCBBX3vS1NoKTPmu5D?domain=listserver.lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">2011</a>, and again in
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2013</a> the collective "we" of this list identified the instruction to transcribe a Tironian sign “et” (<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">⁊</span>) as an ampersand as a problem: mounting evidence showed that "[et]" would be a more appropriate transcription
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</b>This is the easy one. Ampersands are still in use today, so instead of expanding the brevigraph <b><i>&</i></b> in square brackets, rare materials catalogers simply use an ampersand. <br>
= & (Latin, <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/4xeDCERX3ytmjPxsL8LOU?domain=collation.folger.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#CC3535">see in context</span></a>)<br>
= & (English, <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/obODCG6X3AHm9g4sLfjtH?domain=collation.folger.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#CC3535">see in context</span></a>)<br>
= &c. (Latin, <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/HbSXCJ6K31HRoXwhWSacy?domain=collation.folger.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#CC3535">see in context</span></a>)<br>
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</b>An alternative shape for <b><i>&</i></b>, but actually the <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/wTXvCwpyJxt7npxs8jn7c?domain=en.wikipedia.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#CC3535">Tironian short hand</span></a> symbol <b><i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">⁊</span></i></b>,
which represents the <i>sound</i> “et” (rather than the word as such). If a particular font didn’t have a dedicated Tironian sign et, then <b><i>ꝛ</i></b> (a small “<a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/iGKHCKr73GUlkJWFVjSln?domain=en.wikipedia.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#CC3535">r
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= & (Latin, <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/DECHCL913GTA2v9syM8PB?domain=collation.folger.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#CC3535">see in context</span></a>)<br>
= &[cetera] (Latin, with r-rotunda, <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/GZVWCM8K3XtgYl3TAJJy6?domain=collation.folger.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#CC3535">see in context</span></a>; see no. 3 for [cetera])<o:p></o:p></p>
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