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Volume 1 of the two-volume set MITS 56: In 1508, Johannes Trithemius, the Black Abbot, dedicated his Polygraphia, a treatise on writing in ciphers, to Emperor Maximilian I, personally handing over an elaborate autograph. Unlike the editio princeps, which was to be printed a decade later, the manuscript retains the arcane and mysterious tone of the bibliophile scholar’s earlier works on the subject. This book offers the first critical edition and translation of this first version, together with an extensive commentary illuminating the numerous obscure allusions, the impressive literary knowledge of its author, and the genesis of the mechanisms discussed.

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Abbildungsnachweis Handschriften Drucke Die (Pseudo Autographen Recensio Editionsprinzipien Im kritischen Apparat verwendete Siglen Polygraphia Ioannis Tritemii  Ad imperatorem maximilianum  In polygraphiam Ioannis tritemii prefacio  Pinax tocius operis cuiuslibet libri contenta indicans  Liber primus  Liber secundus  Liber tercius  Liber quartus  Liber quintus  Liber sextus  Appendix i  Appendix ii

Die Polygraphia des Johannes Trithemius nach der handschriftlichen Fassung (Band 1): Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: 30/06/2022
      ISBN13: 9789004467095, 978-9004467095
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      Book Synopsis
      Volume 1 of the two-volume set MITS 56: In 1508, Johannes Trithemius, the Black Abbot, dedicated his Polygraphia, a treatise on writing in ciphers, to Emperor Maximilian I, personally handing over an elaborate autograph. Unlike the editio princeps, which was to be printed a decade later, the manuscript retains the arcane and mysterious tone of the bibliophile scholar’s earlier works on the subject. This book offers the first critical edition and translation of this first version, together with an extensive commentary illuminating the numerous obscure allusions, the impressive literary knowledge of its author, and the genesis of the mechanisms discussed.

      Table of Contents
      Abbildungsnachweis Handschriften Drucke Die (Pseudo Autographen Recensio Editionsprinzipien Im kritischen Apparat verwendete Siglen Polygraphia Ioannis Tritemii  Ad imperatorem maximilianum  In polygraphiam Ioannis tritemii prefacio  Pinax tocius operis cuiuslibet libri contenta indicans  Liber primus  Liber secundus  Liber tercius  Liber quartus  Liber quintus  Liber sextus  Appendix i  Appendix ii

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