Gustavi Seleni Cryptomenytices et cryptographiae libri IX : in quibus & planissima Steganographiae a Johanne Trithemio, abbate Spanheymensi & Herbipolensi, admirandi ingenij viro, magice & aenigmatice olim conscriptae, enodatio traditur : inspersis ubique authoris ac aliorum, non contemnendis inventis

August, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, 1579-1666, Kilian, Lucas, 1579-1637, engraver, Kilian, Wolfgang, 1581-1662, engraver, Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1578-1637, dedicatee, Johann und Heinrich Stern, printer, Lunds universitetsbibliotek, former owner · 1624 · Lunaeburgi : Exscriptum typis & impensis Johannis & Henrici fratrum, der Sternen, bibliopolarum Lunaeburgensium · 34 pictures

Gustavi Seleni's 1624 treatise on cryptography and cryptomenytics, printed at Lüneburg by the Sternen brothers and dedicated to Emperor Ferdinand II, with engravings by Lucas and Wolfgang Kilian. The pictures are small woodcut-style ornamental headpieces and tail-pieces, built from a central mask, fruit and foliage, and interlocking strapwork, with a separate cluster of fleur-de-lis-like motifs that a designer could draw on for symmetrical emblem-style borders and framing devices.

Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516 · Cryptography · Ciphers

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