VMs: Re: Mediaeval book written entirely in cipher

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Just two more Giovanni Fontana links to go, and that's my lot. :-)

(1) This page (Italian, on the history of pyrotechnics) namechecks Giovanni 
de Fontana's 1420 manuscript, held by the Biblioteca Nazionale di Monaco.

	http://web.tiscali.it/pirotecnia/storia.htm

(2) A Belgian site briefly mentions him: it also has a larger jpeg of 
Fontana's magic-lantern-projected devil, with his cipher lettering being 
slightly clearer:-

	http://www.limburg.be/beeldvoorbeeld/dorinemignot.html
	http://www.limburg.be/beeldvoorbeeld/fotoduiveltje.html

It's doesn't appear to be a shorthand alphabet, but then again, neither 
does it particularly remind me of any of the Milanese cipher alphabets I've 
seen (which date from circa 1450-1500). :-/

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....