P. Gasparis Schotti e Societate Jesu, Schola steganographica
Subtitle: in classes octo distributa, quibus, præter alia multa, ac jucundissima, explicantur artificia nova, queis quilibet, scribendo epistolam qualibet de re, & quocunque idiomate, potest alteri absenti, eorundem artificiorum conscio, arcanum animi sui conceptum, sine ulla secreti latentis suspicione manifestare; & scriptam ab aliis eâdem arte, quacunque linguâ, intelligere, & interpretari ... Cum figuris æri incisis, & privilegio
Publisher: Sumptibus Johannis Andreae Endteri, & Wolfgangi Junioris Hæred.; Excudebat Jobus Hertz, typographus Herbipol.; Prostant Norimbergæ apud dictos Endteros.
Published: 1680
Place of publication: Nuremberg
Language: lat
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Cryptography; Early works to 1800; Ciphers
Other titles: Schola steganographica.
Work titles: Schola steganographica
Notes: Added engraved t.p. reads: Schola steganographica P. Gaspar: Schotti Soc: Iesu. Combinatio tabellarum steganographicarum. Sumptibus Iohannis Andreæ Endteri, et Wolffgangi Iunioris Hæred: Anno M.DC.LXV.

Half title: P. Gasparis Schotti Societatis Jesu, Schola steganographica.

The third publisher statement follows the date of publication.

Title page in red and black.

Signatures: )(-4)(⁴ 5)(² A-2X⁴ (-2X4?) 2Y² [chi]? The last printed leaf, "Ad bibliopegum", instructions to the binder, and blank verso (p. [355]-[356], is generally regarded as part of the book as issued.

"Ad Serenissimum S.R.I. Principem Ferdinandum Maximilianum Marchionem Badensem"--T.p., with his coat-of-arms on t.p. verso, followed by Schott's "Dedicatio".

Includes index.

Contains musical cyphers (p. 323-326)

Gallard, J.S. Bib. of lit. of cryptology, p. 163, note;

BM, v. 216, column 31;

BN, v. 167, column 406;

Grässe, VI, pt. 1, p. 315;
Table of contents: title: classis 1., in qua explicatur inventum Joannis Trithemii; title: classis 2., in qua explicatur artificium primum Athanasii Kircheri; title: classis 3., in qua explicatur artificium secundum Athanasii Kircheri; title: classis 4., in qua explicatur artificium facile et universale; title: classis 5., in qua explicatur steganographia brevis, facilis, universalis; title: classis 6., in qua explicatur steganographia per paucas ac perbreves tabellulaq; title: classis 7., in qua explicantur varia erotemata steganographica, præsertim quæ Joannis Trithemii Steganographiam ac polygraphiam concernunt; title: classis 8., in qua explicantur varia artificia tam ad steganographiam, quàm ad steganologiam spectantia; title: Catalogus librorum à P. Gasparo Schotto ... hactenus editorum (recto of last leaf)