Gustavi Seleni Cryptomenytices et cryptographiae libri IX : in quibus & planissima Steganographiae à Johanne Trithemio, abbate Spanheymensi & Herbipolensi, admirandi ingenij viro, magicè & aenigmaticè olim conscriptae, enodatio traditur : inspersis ubiquè authoris ac aliorum, non contemnendis inventis.
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Title
Gustavi Seleni Cryptomenytices et cryptographiae libri IX : in quibus & planissima Steganographiae à Johanne Trithemio, abbate Spanheymensi & Herbipolensi, admirandi ingenij viro, magicè & aenigmaticè olim conscriptae, enodatio traditur : inspersis ubiquè authoris ac aliorum, non contemnendis inventis.
Added title page title
Systema integrum cryptographiae
Created/published
Lunaeburgi : Exscriptum typis & impensis Johannis & Henrici fratrum, der Sternen, Bibliopolarum Lunaeburgensium, MDCXXIII [i.e. MDCXXIIII]
Description
[36], 493, [3] p., 1 folded leaf of plates : ill. (1 engraving), music, charts ; 30 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Note
Gustavus Selenus is the pseudonym for August, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg.
Signatures: a-c⁶ A-2R⁶ S⁸.
Pagination errors: p. 178 is misnumbered as 188.
A folded letterpress leaf is inserted before A1.
Engraved, historiated title page
Half-title: Systema integrum cryptographiae authore Gustavo Seleno.
Dedicated to Ferdinand II, p. [5-8].
Date on title page: MDCXXIII. Place of publication and printer statement from colophon which reads: Lunaeburgi, Excriptum typis & impensis Johannis & Henrici fratrum, der Sternen, Bibliopolarum Lunaeburgensium. Anno MDCXXIIII.
Printer's device with motto: "Ad astra per aspera", p. [1] at end.
Includes name index, p. [13-16].
Errata p. [36].
Leaves Q3, 4 and 5 are oversized and folded.
Engravings signed by Lucas Kilian and Wolfgang Kilian.
Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.
Signatures: a-c⁶ A-2R⁶ S⁸.
Pagination errors: p. 178 is misnumbered as 188.
A folded letterpress leaf is inserted before A1.
Engraved, historiated title page
Half-title: Systema integrum cryptographiae authore Gustavo Seleno.
Dedicated to Ferdinand II, p. [5-8].
Date on title page: MDCXXIII. Place of publication and printer statement from colophon which reads: Lunaeburgi, Excriptum typis & impensis Johannis & Henrici fratrum, der Sternen, Bibliopolarum Lunaeburgensium. Anno MDCXXIIII.
Printer's device with motto: "Ad astra per aspera", p. [1] at end.
Includes name index, p. [13-16].
Errata p. [36].
Leaves Q3, 4 and 5 are oversized and folded.
Engravings signed by Lucas Kilian and Wolfgang Kilian.
Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2015. Decoding the Renaissance. November 11, 2014 to February 26, 2015. Open to p. 324-325.
Cited/described in
Galland, J.S. Bibliography of cryptology, 166
Shulman, D. Bibliography of cryptography, 10
Caillet, A.L. Sciences psychiques, 10114
Faber du Faur 422b
Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVII. Jahrhunderts (VD 17), 23:285820R
Shulman, D. Bibliography of cryptography, 10
Caillet, A.L. Sciences psychiques, 10114
Faber du Faur 422b
Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVII. Jahrhunderts (VD 17), 23:285820R
Linked resources
Place of creation/publication
Germany -- Lüneburg.
Call number
Z103 .A9 1623 Cage
Folger-specific note
In early mottled sheep; double gilt fillets, angled corner pieces and centerpiece. Leather label affixed to back paste-down endpaper stamped in gilt: Christianus Sommer J.V. Lic. Adv. Ordin. 1687.