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Title

Facsimile of LJS 225, Litterarum simulationis liber

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

5-27-2015

Files

Comments

Presentation copy for Pope Callistus III of a work on cryptography that describes two systems: in the first, Italian words beginning with one letter are all represented by Italian words beginning with another letter; in the second, signs or symbols represent letters or entire Italian words (titles, city names, and numbers).

Keywords

Cryptography--Early works to 1800, Ciphers--Early works to 1800 Codices, Illuminations (visual works), Manuals (instructional materials), Treatises, Manuscripts Latin--15th century, Manuscripts Italian--15th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4817906

Link to Video

http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/53/

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs225.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 225, Litterarum simulationis liber" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 178.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/178