Steganographia : hoc est, Ars per occultam scripturam animi sui voluntatem absentibus aperiendi certa / authore ... Ioanne Trithemio ... ; praefixa est huic operi sua Clauis, seu vera introductio ab ipso authore concinnata, hactenus quidem a multis multum desiderata, sed à paucissimis visa, nunc vero in gratiam secretioris philosophiae studiosorum publici iuris facta ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516

Contributor:

Saur, Johannes, 1572 or 1573-1636, printer.

Hofmann, Balthasar, active 1605-1622, printer.

Berner, Johann, active 1597-1628, publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Cryptography--Early works to 1800.

Cryptography.

Ciphers--Early works to 1800.

Ciphers.

Penn Provenance:

Pancoast, Henry K. (Henry Khunrath), 1875-1939 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 180, 70, 7 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Ars per occultam scripturam animi sui voluntatem absentibus aperiendi certa

Ars per occvltam scriptvram animi svi volvntatem absentibvs aperiendi certa

Fingerprint:

use- s&i- e-de nipe (3) 1608 (R)

Place of Publication:

Francofurti : Ex officina typographica Ioannis Saurii : Sumptibus Ioannis Berneri, Anno MDCVIII [1608]

Notes:

Imprint varies: "Clauis steganographiae" has separate pagination and signatures and special dated title leaf which reads: Clauis steganographiae Ioannis Trithemii abbatis Spanheimensis. Ad serenissimum prinicipem Dn. Philippum, Comitem Palatinum Rheni, Ducem Bauariae, Imperij Electorem. Venundatur apud Iohannem Bernerum, bibliopolam Francofurtensem, Anno 1608. Cum priuilegio & consensu superiorum.

Imprint varies: "Clauis generalis triplex" has separate pagination and signatures and special dated title leaf which reads: Clauis generalis triplex in libros steganographicos Iohannis Trithemii abbatis Spanheimensis: ab ipso authore conscripta, et amatoribus huius artis gratitudinem declaraturis & secreto retinentibus communicanda. Darmbstadii excudebat Balthasar Hofmann, impensis Iohannis Berneri, bipliop. [sic] Francof. Anno 1608. Cum priuilegio & consensu superiorum.

Signatures: ):(⁴ A-Y⁴ Z², ²A-H⁴ I⁴(-I4?) a⁴.

Woodcut title vignettes, illustrations, initials and head-pieces.

Type ornaments.

Printed marginalia.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 1917 by Henry K. Pancoast.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. bibliographical note in brown ink on title leaf; imprint date transcribed in Arabic numerals in pencil at foot of title leaf; ms. bibliographical note in pencil on verso of special t.p. of Clauis generalis triplex.

Cited in:

VD 17 3:013378W

OCLC:

702174497