Is it possible to decypher this.? Is it some kind of shorthand?

[domtik]

Can anybody identify this script?

[HeatherLynne]

I just stumbled across your post while searching for Shorthand posts. I'm surprised there have been no replies but this script looks very unusual.

I studied Pitman New Era shorthand in the early 80s and can say this isn't it. Nor does it look like any other shorthand/speedwriting system I've seen.

It seems to me it wouldn't be very quick to write as there are multiple repeats of the same stroke, 4 or 5 times. I wondered if it was made up to try and fox someone who was trying to read something private  but is actually just nonsense. Where was it found?

Heather

[Zacktyr]

Hi, domtik,

This is definitely a form of shorthand.  There were many developed throughout the 1700 and 1800s.  You may want to investigate a few of the types to see if you can identify which one was used for your document. 

https://archive.org/search?query=The+Universal+English+Short-Hand+ This link has several books of different forms of short hand.

https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Alfred-Janes.jpg  This link shows the letter formations for Alfred Janes form of shorthand.

Good luck. 

[Rosinish]

I'm surprised there have been no replies

Where was it found?

Possibly one of the reasons there's been no replies, nothing to go on, no background with any sort of clues?

Annie

[Copper1]

You've made a welcome start to our site domtik - and grasped the ability to upload a file from the beginning. Well done!
So you've seen over 300 views already and many waiting for you to now share the 'provenance' of the paperwork you wish to be answered

[BumbleB]

You've made a welcome start to our site domtik - and grasped the ability to upload a file from the beginning. Well done!
So you've seen over 300 views already and many waiting for you to now share the 'provenance' of the paperwork you wish to be answered

True - but domtik hasn't been on-line since a few days after the initial post in November last year 

[still_looking]

The paper it has been written on appears to be for music with a six line staff printed on the reverse. Difficult to tell if the other side has been used or not.

S_L

[GR2]

The paper it has been written on appears to be for music with a six line staff printed on the reverse. Difficult to tell if the other side has been used or not.

S_L

In that case, is it possible that the symbols don't represent letters, syllables or words, but are some kind of shorthand for musical notation?

[arthurk]

The usual stave for writing music has 5 lines, but a 6 line 'stave' is used for guitar notation, each line representing one of the strings. (Added: I think the staves here are joined in groups of four, and there may be something written on them.)

The writing reminded me a little of the Japanese you sometimes see on multi-lingual instructions. I have no knowledge of Japanese, but a bit of research revealed two possible writing systems: hiragana, which I think is used for Japanese words, and katakana, which seems to be for transliterating foreign words. So if it's the latter, it might be a message in English disguised by the use of Japanese characters which represent the same sounds.

However, since the OP appears to have no more interest in it, I'm not particularly inclined to spend time on it, even though I am a tiny bit curious.