Finding-Aid for the Philip Arnold Collection (WTU00386)


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Descriptive Summary

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Collection Outline


Collection Outline

Photocopies of Ciphers of Captain Moise Ceffis of Venice. [n.d.]

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Descriptive Summary

Creator: Arnold, Philip
Title: Collection
Quantity: 8 pages
Identification: WTU00386

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Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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Administrative Information

Sources

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Box/folder
1 /Arnold

Photocopies of Ciphers of Captain Moise Ceffis of Venice. [n.d.] 8 pages, 20 in. x 7 in.

Photocopies of Ciphers of Captain Moise Ceffis of Venice so that "the secret matters of Princes and Potentates may be readily written and easy to be deciphered but easy only to the person to whom the letter is sent and it would be impossible for the teacher of this cipher to decipher that which can be written with the rules of this cipher." The cipher is "based on crosses with which an infinite number of ciphers by changing the number of the square, writing always in this form."

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