Die Polygraphia des Johannes Trithemius nach der handschriftlichen Fassung (Band 1)

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Volume 1 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.
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2022
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30 Jun 2022
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Maximilian Gamer, Ph.D. (2021), studied History and Medieval and Neo-Latin in Heidelberg and Zurich and was research assistant to the Chair of Medieval and Neo-Latin at the University of Zurich.
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Polygraphia Ioannis Tritemii
 Ad imperatorem maximilianum
 In polygraphiam Ioannis tritemii prefacio
 Pinax tocius operis cuiuslibet libri contenta indicans
 Liber primus
 Liber secundus
 Liber tercius
 Liber quartus
 Liber quintus
 Liber sextus
 Appendix i
 Appendix ii

All readers interested in the history of cryptography in late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and early modern times, in Johannes Trithemius, in his cryptological treatises, and in his handling of antiquarian information.
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