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Record Information
ID:98
Name:ASV_i1025_SdS_Spain_6_I-6
Current Location
Country:Vatican City State
City:Vatican City
City:Vatican Secret Archive, i. 1025, Segretario di Stato, doss. 6/I
Origin
Dates: -
Author:Cardinal Alessandrino
Sender:Cardinal Alessandrino
Receiver:The Nuncio
Region:Spain
City:
Content
Type:Cipher
Status:Partially decrypted
Cipher Type:Nomenclatures, Polyphonic
Symbol Sets:Numerical
Pages:1
Creation
Owner:6
Creator:6
Creation Date:2016-10-18 00:00:00
Access mode:Authentication required

ID 98
Name ASV_i1025_SdS_Spain_6_I-6
Owner
Current Location and Name Vatican City,Vatican Secret Archive, i. 1025, Segretario di Stato, doss. 6/I
ASV_i1025_SdS_Spain_6_I-6
Dates 1568 - 1570
Authors Cardinal Alessandrino
Spain
Languages Cleartext:
Plaintext:Italian
Country Vatican City State
City Vatican City
Holder Vatican Secret Archive, i. 1025, Segretario di Stato, doss. 6/I
Author Cardinal Alessandrino
Sender Cardinal Alessandrino
Receiver The Nuncio
Region Spain
Origin City
Start Year 1568
Start Month 1
Start Day 16
End Year 1570
End Month 5
End Day 30
Record
Type
Cipher
Status Partially decrypted
Symbol Set Numerical
Cipher Type NomenclaturesPolyphonic
Cipher Type (notes) Non-deterministic decryption
Symbol Sets (notes)
No. of Pages 1
Inline Cleartext No
Inline Plaintext No
Cleartext
Language
Plaintext
Language
Italian
Private Ciphertext True
Available Documents CleartextKeyTranscription
Paper
Access Mode Authentication required
Creation Date 10/18/16
Key: encoded plaintext type
Key: numbers
Key: content words
Key: function words
Key: syllables
Key: morphological endings
Key: phrases
Key: sentences
Key: punctuation
Key: nomenclature size
Key: sections
Key: headings
Key: plaintext arrangement
Key: ciphertext arrangement
Key: memorability
Key: symbol set
Key: diacritics
Key: code length
Key: code types
Key: metaphors
Key: material properties
Key: instructions

Additional Information

Comment from archive: I cardinale Alessandrino al nunzio. Lettere orig. e cifre del cardinale Alessandrino dal 16 gennaio 1568 al 3§ maggio 157§.

It is not possible to automatically decrypt ciphertexts, since this is a polyphonic cipher and decryption is not deterministic. There will be multiple possible ways of decrypting a certain sequence of digits. Decryption should be done manually by a linguist or historian.


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