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Polygraphie et vniuerselle escriture cabalistique

Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516, Collange, Gabriel de, -1572, translator, Kerver, Jacques, -1583, printer, Stirling Maxwell, William, 1818-1878, former owner. MB, Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000, former owner. MB · 1561 · A Paris : Pour Iaques Keruer demeurant en la rue˜ sainct Iacques a l'enseigne de la Licorne · 40 pictures

Polygraphie et vniuerselle escriture cabalistique is a 1561 cryptography treatise by Johannes Trithemius, translated into French by Gabriel de Collange and printed in Paris by Jacques Kerver for a scholarly readership. Its pictures are letterpress diagrams of numbered wheels divided into segments, framed by ornamental borders and set beside dense French text, with a separate black-and-cream floral panel repeated as a decorative device; a designer might borrow the radial wheel layouts for circular infographics or the cut-paper style ornament for frames and dividers.

Cryptography · Ciphers

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