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Book Four

Ch. 9.                    161

Example of the Afore-Mentioned Polygraphic Mode

S.P.D.Fratri suo

a. manu meâ

Recepi paginas tuas, probe & modestissime Gustave Selene, decimo guinto Calendas Aprilis, per Liciscam Serrvum. E vestigio animadverti consilium pol exardescens, optime obsecutus sum. Retribui qua-re, te mandante, Simeoni custodi tuo, duo, millia & undecim nummos ex reditibus. Si aliquid reliquum est, flagitato, satisfaciam, devinctus syncera, nec minus solida lenitate propinquorum tuorum: fac scientissimus de tuis germanis, ut conjunctim solatio fruar, vel tristiciam sentiam. Diu valeto. Exaratum Jetzelflissiij:8. Novembris.1622.  
Tuus fidelis frater  

Ausustus Selenus Germanus, manu  
Mea subscripsi.  

That is: P.GregorIVs DeCINVs qVIntVs, nomine, complectitur Annum Ch.M.D.C.XXIII.  

That I may carry one step farther the device of preparing such alphabets, I have ventured to add another alphabetic table, made up of German words and containing fourteen alphabets. I have taken it form an anonymous manuscript, and it reads as follows:

 
b. manu suâ
c. m.s.
d. m.p.
e. manu subscripsimeâ
f. manu propriâ
g. +
h. *
i. manu meâ subscripsi
l. o.
m. oo.
n. ooo.
o. subscripsimanu meâ
         o
      o    o
p.      o
q. + +
       o
r.    o o o
      o o o
s.      o
        o
t.      o
u.  * *
x.  * o *
y. * * o
z. o * *