P. Gasparis Schotti ... Schola steganographica
Subtitle: in classes octo distributa, quibus, præter alia multa, ac jucundissima, explicantur artificia nova, queis quilibet, scribendo epistolam qualibet dere, & quocunque idiomate, potest alteri absenti, eorundem artificiorum conscio, arcanum animi sui conceptum, sine ulla secreti latentis suspicione manifestare : & scriptam ab aliis eadem arte, quacunque lingua, intelligere, & interpretari ... .
Series: German baroque literature, Harold Jantz collection -- no. 2262, reel 466.
Publisher: sumptibus Johannis Andreae Endteri, & Wolfgangi Junioris haered.; excudebat Jobus Hertz; prostant Norimbergae; apud dictos Endteros
Published: 1680
Place of publication: [Nuremberg]; Herbipoli
Language: lat
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Trithemius, Johannes, -- 1462-1516; Kircher, Athanasius, -- 1602-1680; Cryptography -- Early works to 1800; Ciphers -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Schola steganographica.
Work titles: Schola steganographica.
Notes: In the succession of Johann Trithemius, August von Braunschweig, et al., one of the famous works of its time on cryptography; on the last 4 pages an interesting postscript on Trithemius & a catalog of Schott's works.

Added engraved t.p. reads: Schola steganographica P. Gaspar. Schotti Combinatio tabellarum steganographicarum.

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".

Contains musical cyphers.

Includes index.

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.

Microfilm. New Haven : Research Publications, 1973. 35 mm. (German baroque literature, Harold Jantz collection ; no. 2262, reel 466)

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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, praesertim quae Joannis Trithemii Steganographiam ac polygraphiam concernunt; title: classis 8. Iin qua explicantur varia artificia tam ad steganographiam, quam ad steganologiam spectantia; title: Catalogus librorum a P. Gasparo Schotto ... hactenus editorum (recto of last leaf).