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ID:2877
Name:Yale_Beinecke_ Mellon_MS_29_Lumen_luminum

Current Location
Country:USA, Connecticut
City:New Haven
City:Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mellon MS 29

Origin
Dates: -
Author:Elia da Cortona (1180-1253)
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Receiver:
Region:Italy
City:Venice?

Content
Type:Cipher
Status:Non-decrypted
Cipher Type:Unknown
Symbol Sets:Graphic signs
Pages:68

Creation
Owner:22
Creator:22
Creation Date:2022-01-06 10:46:07
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ID	2877
Name	Yale_Beinecke_ Mellon_MS_29_Lumen_luminum
Owner
Current Location and Name	New Haven,Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mellon MS 29 Yale_Beinecke_ Mellon_MS_29_Lumen_luminum
Dates	1525 - 1525
Authors	Elia da Cortona (1180-1253) Italy Venice?
Languages	Cleartext:Latin Plaintext:
Country	USA, Connecticut
City	New Haven
Holder	Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mellon MS 29
Author	Elia da Cortona (1180-1253)
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Receiver
Region	Italy
Origin City	Venice?
Start Year	1525
Start Month	1
Start Day	1
End Year	1525
End Month	12
End Day	31
Record Type	Cipher
Status	Non-decrypted
Symbol Set	Graphic signs
Cipher Type	Unknown
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Symbol Sets (notes)
No. of Pages	68
Inline Cleartext	Yes
Inline Plaintext	No
Cleartext Language	Latin
Plaintext Language
Private Ciphertext	True
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Paper
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Creation Date	1/6/22
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Additional Information
The image is not in the public domain. Publishing it is only possible with the permission of the Library. Also available at https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog Manuscript on paper of Elias Cortonensis O.F.M., Lumen luminum, said according to this copy to have been composed in 1315, an erroneous date, and drawn from Saracen and Hebrew sources, translated into Latin. With a cryptic text, ascribed to a church figure, with a cipher code; and miscellaneous recipes in Italian. Binding: Original, North Italian. Dark leather, the sides ruled with triple bordering lines to form a rectangle within a rectangle, the smaller rectangle with a roll tool of vinelike foliage impressed in blind, a smaller interior rectangle formed by the panel of roll tooling with gold-stamped ivy leaves at the corners and a circular stamp incorporating the "yhs" monogram in the center framed by a lozenge of tooling with the same roll already mentioned; back with five raised bands; modern gold-stamped title label pasted onto second compartment from top. Backstrip and corners extensively repaired; gilt edges stamped with a herringbone knotwork pattern. Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 26, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965. ff. 33 of probably 40 originally, the extant leaves numbered by an old hand 1-25, 27-30, 32-33, 36-37 (f. 26, 31, 34, 35, and 38-40, now missing, the last three possibly blanks) In Latin, with Italian prologue. Script: Written in an italic hand and partly in cipher. Watermark: a circle containing an unidentified design element, with a six-pointed star on a shaft above, not identified.
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