The following code is a bit blurred, but there seem to be a
few of the glyphs seen in the VMS listed (probably coincidental).
Notice the VMS tables (upright and turned over) under CT at the top right.
"Ciphers used by Mary, Queen of Scots, 1586":
Shorthand Collection in Britain:
Regards,
Dana Scott
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 7:02
AM
Subject: VMs: Tranchedino
comments...
Hi everyone,
There are some interesting characters on
page 88v of the Milanese cipher
ledger (page 15 of Petr's
Tranchedino_81v_91r.pdf)... if you look at the
second row of characters
given for the base alphabet, there are a number of
"cc" characters with
bars above them.
ISTM (from the title of the page) that this was
probably for another
Tranchedino family member... interesting!
:-)
There's also another "4" / "4o" pair on page 94r (coding for
"quando" /
"max") from 1478.
FWIW, while going through the
Tranchedino pages, I've been looking for the
two red wierdo characters
from VMs f1r (which I call the "upside-down
picnic table" and the "hot
coffee" glyphs). The former appears in a number
of ciphers, but I haven't
seen the latter anywhere yet... steaming coffee
maybe, but no smoking gun.
:-o
Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
PS: the symbol at the bottom
of 100v looks a bit dubious... the code-maker
might have been playing a
joke, I don't know (you decide).
:-)
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