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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Augusto Buonafalce</title>
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		<title>Cod. Pal. Germ. 597&#8242;s cipher&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/05/15/cod-pal-germ-597s-cipher</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 12:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Augusto Buonafalce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another interesting comment from Rene Zandbergen yesterday (to my flying potions post) sparked off a furious flurry of bloggery here at Cipher Mystery Mansions. While browsing through a large set of online manuscripts digitized (and hosted) by the University of Heidelberg, he found Cod(ex) Pal(atinus) Germ(anicus) 597 &#8211; an alchemical manuscript where a large amount of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Yet another interesting comment from Rene Zandbergen yesterday (to my flying potions post) sparked off a furious flurry of bloggery here at Cipher Mystery Mansions. While browsing through a large set of online manuscripts digitized (and hosted) by the University of Heidelberg, he found Cod(ex) Pal(atinus) Germ(anicus) 597 &#8211; an alchemical manuscript where a large amount of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Mercantesca, Leonardo, and the Voynich Manuscript&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/22/mercantesca-leonardo-and-the-voynich-manuscript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/22/mercantesca-leonardo-and-the-voynich-manuscript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new day dawns, bringing with it a nice email from Augusto Buonafalce in response to my post on Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s &#8216;x&#8217;-like abbreviation for &#8216;ver&#8216; (as recently mentioned by Edith Sherwood). Augusto points out that if you remove the plain diagonal line in the reflected version, what remains appears to be similar to a &#8216;b&#8217;&#8230; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A new day dawns, bringing with it a nice email from Augusto Buonafalce in response to my post on Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s &#8216;x&#8217;-like abbreviation for &#8216;ver&#8216; (as recently mentioned by Edith Sherwood).

Augusto points out that if you remove the plain diagonal line in the reflected version, what remains appears to be similar to a &#8216;b&#8217;&#8230; but [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>450-year-old challenge cipher cracked!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/31/450-year-old-challenge-cipher-cracked</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/31/450-year-old-challenge-cipher-cracked#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Augusto Buonafalce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bellaso Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorabella Cipher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Gaffney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1564 printed edition of his cryptography manual, Giovan Battista Bellaso included seven challenge ciphers for his readers to break, along with a set of clues: these all remained unbroken and in obscurity until Augusto Buonafalce wrote about them in 1997, 1999, and 2006 in the journal Cryptologia. But that&#8217;s all changed now! Tony Gaffney - who Cipher [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the 1564 printed edition of his cryptography manual, Giovan Battista Bellaso included seven challenge ciphers for his readers to break, along with a set of clues: these all remained unbroken and in obscurity until Augusto Buonafalce wrote about them in 1997, 1999, and 2006 in the journal Cryptologia.
But that&#8217;s all changed now!
Tony Gaffney - who Cipher Mysteries regulars should [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich Ms Reading List Recommendations&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/25/voynich-ms-reading-list-recommendations</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/25/voynich-ms-reading-list-recommendations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lynn Thorndike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary D'Imperio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Caterina Sforza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Prager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isabella Cortese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mariano Taccola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paolo Preto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrizia Catellani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Eamon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a comment to a recent post on Alberti &#38; Averlino, &#8216;infinitii&#8217; asks what my recommendations would be for a Voynich Manuscript reading list&#8230; a deceptively hard question. Apart from the direct literature on the subject (Mary D&#8217;Imperio&#8217;s &#8220;An Elegant Enigma&#8221;, my &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221;, and perhaps even Kennedy &#38; Churchill&#8217;s &#8220;The Voynich [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In a comment to a recent post on Alberti &amp; Averlino, &#8216;infinitii&#8217; asks what my recommendations would be for a Voynich Manuscript reading list&#8230; a deceptively hard question.
Apart from the direct literature on the subject (Mary D&#8217;Imperio&#8217;s &#8220;An Elegant Enigma&#8221;, my &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221;, and perhaps even Kennedy &amp; Churchill&#8217;s &#8220;The Voynich Manuscript&#8221;), [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bellaso&#8217;s ciphers, updated&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/18/bellasos-ciphers-updated</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/18/bellasos-ciphers-updated#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Augusto Buonafalce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bellaso Ciphers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A huge thanks to the indefatigable Tony Gaffney who very kindly took the time recently to double-check my transcriptions (some of them derived from Augusto Buonafalce&#8217;s transcriptions) of Bellaso&#8217;s various challenge ciphers against the copies held in the British Library. Of the twelve corrections he suggested, roughly half were typos on my part, while the remainder were places [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A huge thanks to the indefatigable Tony Gaffney who very kindly took the time recently to double-check my transcriptions (some of them derived from Augusto Buonafalce&#8217;s transcriptions) of Bellaso&#8217;s various challenge ciphers against the copies held in the British Library.
Of the twelve corrections he suggested, roughly half were typos on my part, while the remainder were places where [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bellaso&#8217;s challenge ciphers (updated)&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/18/bellasos-challenge-ciphers-updated</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/18/bellasos-challenge-ciphers-updated#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Augusto Buonafalce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bellaso Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feynman Ciphers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After I recently mentioned Bellaso&#8217;s set of seven challenge ciphers from 1564 on this blog, Augusto Buonafalce very kindly emailed me with scans of Bellaso&#8217;s three challenge ciphers from 1555. I&#8217;ve now transcribed these (as best I can) and have added them to the existing Bellaso cipher transcriptions page. I do acknowledge that the font that my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[After I recently mentioned Bellaso&#8217;s set of seven challenge ciphers from 1564 on this blog, Augusto Buonafalce very kindly emailed me with scans of Bellaso&#8217;s three challenge ciphers from 1555. I&#8217;ve now transcribed these (as best I can) and have added them to the existing Bellaso cipher transcriptions page.
I do acknowledge that the font that my theme [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The mystery of Bellaso&#8217;s ciphers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/10/the-mystery-of-bellasos-ciphers</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/10/the-mystery-of-bellasos-ciphers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Augusto Buonafalce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bellaso Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cryptologia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A little while back, I asked Augusto Buonafalce about Renaissance cryptographer Giovan Battista Bellaso&#8217;s challenge ciphers, completely unaware that he seems to have published more articles on them than anyone else on the planet. (Shame on me for not subscribing to Cryptologia, I really ought to.) In fact, Bellaso published two sets of challenge ciphers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A little while back, I asked Augusto Buonafalce about Renaissance cryptographer Giovan Battista Bellaso&#8217;s challenge ciphers, completely unaware that he seems to have published more articles on them than anyone else on the planet. (Shame on me for not subscribing to Cryptologia, I really ought to.)
In fact, Bellaso published two sets of challenge ciphers in [...]]]></content:encoded>
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