P. Gasparis Schotti ... Schola steganographica : in classes octo distributa, quibus, præter alia multa, ac jucundissima, explicantur artificia nova, queis quilibet, scribendo epistolam qualibet dere, & quocunque idiomate, potest alteri absenti, eorundem artificiorum conscio, arcanum animi sui conceptum, sine ulla secreti latentis suspicione manifestare : & scriptam ab aliis eadem arte, quacunque lingua, intelligere, & interpretari ...

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Schott, Gaspar, 1608-1666.

Series:

German baroque literature, Harold Jantz collection ; no. 2262, reel 466.

Standardized Title:

Schola steganographica

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Cryptography--Early works to 1800.

Cryptography.

Ciphers--Early works to 1800.

Ciphers.

Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516.

Trithemius, Johannes.

Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680.

Kircher, Athanasius.

Physical Description:

30 unnumbered pages, 346 pages, 17 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations, 1 coat of arms, music ; 21 cm

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Schola steganographica.

Place of Publication:

[Nuremberg] : sumptibus Johannis Andreae Endteri, & Wolfgangi Junioris haered. ; Herbipoli : excudebat Jobus Hertz : prostant Norimbergae : apud dictos Endteros, 1680.

Contents:

classis 1. In qua explicatur inventum Joannis Trithemii

classis 2. In qua explicatur artificium primum Athanasii Kircheri

classis 3. In qua explicatur artificium secundum Athanasii Kircheri

classis 4. In qua explicatur artificium facile et universale

classis 5. In qua explicatur steganographia brevis, facilis, universalis

classis 6. In qua explicatur steganographia per paucas ac perbreves tabellulaq

classis 7. In qua explicantur varia erotemata steganographica, praesertim quae Joannis Trithemii Steganographiam ac polygraphiam concernunt

classis 8. Iin qua explicantur varia artificia tam ad steganographiam, quam ad steganologiam spectantia

Catalogus librorum a P. Gasparo Schotto ... hactenus editorum (recto of last leaf).

Notes:

In the succession of Johann Trithemius, August von Braunschweig, et al., one of the famous works of its time on cryptography; on the last 4 pages an interesting postscript on Trithemius & a catalog of Schott's works.

Added engraved t.p. reads: Schola steganographica P. Gaspar. Schotti Combinatio tabellarum steganographicarum.

The third publisher statement follows the date of publication.

Title page in red and black.

Signatures:)(-4)(⁴ 5)(² A-2X⁴ (-2X4?) 2Y² [chi]? The last printed leaf, "Ad bibliopegum", instructions to the binder, and blank verso (p. [355]-[356], is generally regarded as part of the book as issued.

"Ad Serenissimum S.R.I. Principem Ferdinandum Maximilianum Marchionem Badensem"--T.p., with his coat-of-arms on t.p. verso, followed by Schott's "Dedicatio."

Contains musical cyphers.

Includes index.

Microfilm. New Haven : Research Publications, 1973. 35 mm. (German baroque literature, Harold Jantz collection ; no. 2262, reel 466)

Cited in:

Gallard, J.S. Bib. of lit. of cryptology, p. 163, note

BM, v. 216, column 31

BN, v. 167, column 406

Grässe, VI, pt. 1, p. 315

OCLC:

24058624