D.P.J.A. Scheers
Title: The Art of Decryption in the 17th century
Date of publication: Oct. 1, 2019
Language: English
Pages: +/-125
ISBN: 9780463602256
Link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/960808
Link amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09X4HDJPJ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i5
Summary:
Translated from the original French manuscript that is dated 1668–1714.
This handbook describes the decryption of simple and composite French and Spanish ciphers in the 17th century and shows the applied methods and examples.
Title: DEN OUDE KALENDRIER IN 2020
Subtitle: met sonderlinge geestigheyt ende wit, samengesteldt in Corona Tempus: met seer profijtelijck ghedichte om te lesen
Date of publication: Nov. 13, 2020
Language: Dutch, Nederlands
Pages: +/-104
ISBN-13 : 979-8563931732
Link: https://www.amazon.de/OUDE-KALENDRIER-2020-samengesteldt-profijtelijck/dp/B08NF33FS2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Summary:
Een boekje met een vertaling van de Franse Kalendrier des Bergiers, een schaapherderskalender uit 1491. Daarnaast Der Scaepherders Kalengier, de Nederlandse versie hiervan uit 1513 en ten slotte eigen maandverzen uit coronajaar 2020. Aangevuld met de nodige achtergrond informatie ter lering ende vermaak voorzien van mooie afbeeldingen.
Title: WRITTEN CIPHERS USED BY THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE, LUIGI PASINI, 1872.
Date of publication: Jan. 25, 2021
Language: English
Pages: +/-104
ISBN-13 : 9798700119559
Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08TZHBQWN
Summary:
The work of archivist Luigi Pasini, published in 1872, during his work in the Archives of Venice is translated. It provides a glimpse of the ciphers in the Archives and the hidden treasures of Venetian cryptography. It focusses on the translation and provides some insights on the Venetian Cancelleria and the earliest ciphers, of which the oldest example is from the year 1411.
Title: ZEALOUS WITH LANGUAGE AND CIPHERS
Subtitle: Shorthand, ciphers and universal language around the 17th century.
Date of publication: March. 9, 2021
Language: English
Pages: +/-248
ISBN-13 : 979-8719537368
Link: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08YHYS1CS
Summary:
The practical use of language, in particular the inventions of shorthand, numbers and universal characters, is explored. Extensive examples take the reader through history in search of the ultimate language. Examples of the techniques and photos of the real pages from medieval and 17th century books show what the universal language is and its relationship with shorthand, numbers and language in general.
Title: The Shorthand of Charles Dickens
Date of publication: 23 Dec. 2021
Language: English
Pages: 96
ISBN-13 : 979-8789353547
Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shorthand-Charles-Dickens-D-P-J-Scheers/dp/B09NRD6SB1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FA1WQZE3EI0K&keywords=the+shorthand+of+charles+dickens
Summary:
At the age of sixteen Charles Dickens decided to learn the Brachygraphy shorthand and trained himself to write shorter and faster. That it poses many difficulties can be read in his novel David Copperfield where the main character is frustrated by applying shorthand.
The first part of this book shows a summary of shorthand and universal language in general and the second part shows the Gurney shorthand system by text examples. Then some of the examples of shorthand notes and letters by Dickens are shown and dissected into their separate syllables.
Title: The Venetian Ciphers of Agostino Amadi
Agostino Amadi created this remarkable work at the end of the 16th century, and its authentic material was hidden for more than four hundred years and never published before. The manuscript of 700 pages is translated and published in different volumes:
Volume 1: English & Italian.
This volume 1 is published in two languages: Italian and English. The original Italian handwritten text was firstly transcribed and translated by Marco Ponzi into modern Italian and then translated into English. In the first Volume, more than 80 different ciphering methods are discussed together with diagrams, tables, symbolic images, with every cipher method containing one or more examples. These are all thoroughly investigated, checked and, where necessary, adjusted, with the addition of comments.
Volume 2: English.
Volume 3: English.
Volume 4-10: English.
The Complete Manuscript: English.
The complete translated manuscript contains all volumes 1-10 with all ciphers and solutions. A short description of the volumes:
Vol.1 with over hundred cipher examples by using rotating wheels and other methods such as pigpen, positional shifts, columnar, transposition, substitution, grilles, babuini tables, music cipher, Basingstoke and Egyptian symbols.
Vol.2 shows ciphers and decipherment techniques using superfluous symbols, poly-alphabetical methods and babuini tables.
Vol.3 discusses poly-steganography using geometric forms and psalms, cipher wheels, and many ancient scripts, such as Hebrew, Chaldean, Chaldee, Phoenician, Babylonian, Gerogliphices, Samaritan, Cofite, Diabolic, Vandals, Schiavone, Illiriche, Aetiopice, etc. Several other ways of secret communication are discussed such as using a clock, crown, music, Neapolitan cord, knots, etc.
Vol.4 is titled Apo-cryptography and contains the most sophisticated ciphers using poly-alphabetical tables and includes ciphers with keywords that Amadi invented himself.
Vol.5: is about chemicals and ingredients for hiding letters, repairing paper and how to tamper with seals.
Vol.7-10 must be used as working material for cipher students, and it contains 101 ciphers, with hints for decipherment and the final solutions.
View the books here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WK3Z86Q?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_dp_sirpi
