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Subject(s)

• Cryptography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Ciphers—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Cryptography [Browse]

Editor

• Gamer, Maximilian [Browse]

Series

• Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; 56/2. [More in this series]
• Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; 56/2 [More in this series]

Summary note

Volume 2 of the two-volume set MITS 56: In 1508, Johannes Trithemius, the Black Abbot, dedicated his Polygraphia, a treatise on writing in ciphers, to Emperor Maximilian I, personally handing over an elaborate autograph. Unlike the editio princeps, which was to be printed a decade later, the manuscript retains the arcane and mysterious tone of the bibliophile scholar’s earlier works on the subject. This book offers the first critical edition and translation of this first version, together with an extensive commentary illuminating the numerous obscure allusions, the impressive literary knowledge of its author, and the genesis of the mechanisms discussed.

Notes

This book presents the first edition of Trithemius’ major crytographical work with a commentary which clarifies the obscure allusions in the theoretical parts and sheds light onto the learned abbot’s broad scholarship and knowledge of antique and medieval treatises.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

German.

Contents

• Intro
• ‎Inhalt
• ‎Abbildungsnachweis
• ‎Vorbemerkungen
• ‎Handschriften
• ‎Drucke
• ‎Die (Pseudo-) Autographen
• ‎Recensio
• ‎Editionsprinzipien
• ‎Polygraphia Ioannis Tritemii
• ‎Ad imperatorem maximilianum
• ‎Prefacio
• ‎Pinax
• ‎Liber primus
• ‎Liber secundus
• ‎Liber tercius
• ‎Liber quartus
• ‎Liber quintus
• ‎Liber sextus
• ‎Appendix i: Ad germanum de ganai
• ‎Appendix ii: Diadoses ex polygraphia.

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Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar

ISBN

9789004507760 ((electronic bk.))

LCCN

2021061407

OCLC

1340956406

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004507760

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