Gustavi Seleni Cryptomenytices et cryptographiae libri IX : in quibus & planissima Steganographiae à Johanne Trithemio ... magicè & aenigmaticè olim conscriptae, enodatio traditur : inspersis ubiquè authoris ac aliorum, non contemnendis inventis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

August, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, 1579-1666.

Contributor:

Cryptology Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Cryptomenytices et cryptographiae libri IX

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Cryptography--Early works to 1800.

Cryptography.

Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516. Steganographia.

Trithemius, Johannes.

Penn Provenance:

Mendelsohn, Charles J. (Charles Jastrow), 1880-1939 (autograph) (donor)

Mendelsohn, Esther Jastrow (donor)

Physical Description:

36 unnumbered pages, 493 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of folded plates : illustrations ; 29 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Half-title: Systema integrum cryptographiae

Place of Publication:

[Lunaeburgi] : [Exscriptum typis & impensis Johannis & Henrici fratrum, der Sternen, bibliopolarum Lunaeburgensium], 1624.

Notes:

Place of printing and names of printers from colophon.

Signatures: a-c⁶ A-2R⁶ 2S⁸(-2S8).

Engraved t.p.

Half-title on first leaf reads: Systema integrum cryptographiae authore Gustavo Seleno.

Errata on leaf c6 verso.

Local Notes:

With some ms. notes about some of the ciphers by Charles J. Mendelsohn on 6 leaves laid in; a few ms. notes by Mendelsohn in margins.

Cited in:

Galland, J.S. Historical and analytical bibl. of the lit. of cryptology, 166

Shulman, D. Annotated bibl. of cryptography, I, p. 10

OCLC:

18851543