Strange alphabet

[Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not really related to the VMS, but...

This leaf in Kircher's correspondence shows some
inscriptions from "Chinese" and "Turkish" shields:
http://Brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/kircher/563/large/058r.jpg
I can't recognize the alphabet of the first two 
inscriptions.  Anyone has a clue?

All the best,

--stolfi

PS. Other possibly interesting ones

Engraving of a monstrous Tartar captured by Count Nicholas ...
http://Brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/kircher/563/large/005r.jpg

Indiae Orientales cifra nova
http://Brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/kircher/563/large/068r.jpg

Letters to Kircher in cipher from Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (?)
http://Brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/kircher/563/large/088v.jpg
http://Brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/kircher/563/large/089r.jpg

Catalogus linguarum et variorum dialectorum, / quarum singulorum ...
in albo Erne-/-sti Brinskii, consulis Harderwicensis Geldri
http://Brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/kircher/563/large/142r.jpg

Sample of Kircher's invented language (Polygraphia Nova):
http://Brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/kircher/563/large/189r.jpg
http://Brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/kircher/563/large/189v.jpg

Anonymous alchemical notes (apparently not in Kircher's hand)
http://Brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/kircher/563/large/271r.jpg

Alchemical recipes given to Pope Alexander VII (in Italian)
http://Brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/kircher/563/large/300r.jpg
http://Brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/kircher/563/large/300v.jpg
http://Brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/kircher/563/large/301r.jpg
("On doing the experiment one will see whatever God will give.")

Alchemical secret for making the Arbor lunaris
http://Brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/kircher/563/large/308r.jpg

Latin Riddle:
http://Brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/kircher/563/large/329r.jpg

Test which is better, your Physics or your Latin:
PROBLEMATA I. Solidum construere, quod intra liquidum nec subsidat...
http://Brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/kircher/563/large/336r.jpg