Cryptomenysis patefacta: or The art of secret information disclosed without a key. Containing, plain and demonstrative rules, for decyphering all manner of secret writing. With exact methods, for resolving secret intimations by signs or gestures, or in speech. As also an inquiry into the secret ways of conveying written messages: and the several mysterious proposals for secret information, mentioned by Trithemius, &c. By J. F.
John Falconer
Category
Books
Date
1685
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3057845
Summary
Bibliographic description
[26], 180 p. ; 8vo. Running number: 7705. Imperfect: wanting blank leaves A1 and A8. Author's surname "alconer" added in manuscript in late seventeenth or eighteenth-century hand after initials 'J. F' on title page. Provenance: late seventeenth or eighteenth-century manuscript former shelfmark on front pastedown: "L.1.30". Manuscript price[?] in pencil on front fly-leaf: "1r. 6[?]". Manuscript list of letters and their cipher key equivalent on p. 21, following printed instruction given on p. [14] of prelims. Binding: late seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; scuffed on front cover, hole in rear cover; sewn on four raised bands; double blind fillet border, with blind roll pattern along spine-edge; gilt roll pattern along board edges; blind fillet panels on spine; red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
John Falconer