# The manuscript is a homophonic substitution cipher for eighteenth-century German, with Roman letters as…

> Most likely: The manuscript is a homophonic substitution cipher for eighteenth-century German, with Roman letters as spaces, and the published key reads…

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# The manuscript is a homophonic substitution cipher for eighteenth-century German, with Roman letters as…

The manuscript is a homophonic substitution cipher for eighteenth-century German, with Roman letters as spaces, and the published key reads the whole text.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests supported it: three pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- The published key reads every page as grammatical German with coherent content.
- An independent text in the same cipher reads correctly with the same key.
- The content is historically specific and checkable against external records.

## What would rule it out

- Pages that the key renders as nonsense, or an independent text that the key fails on.

## Evidence 3 for · none against

[The Oculist archive at Wolfenbüttel, a second corpus in the same cipher, was read with the same key in 2012.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/evidence/EVD0CYVFJW2316V/the-oculist-archive-at-wolfenbuttel-a-second-corpus-in-the)

Established

FOR

[The content, the Oculists' rules and Masonic high-degree rituals, is specific and matches a documented…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/evidence/EVD0CYVFK3W6G88/the-content-the-oculists-rules-and-masonic-high-degree)

Established

FOR

[The full transcription, deciphered German and English translation are published for every page.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/evidence/EVD0CYVFJM85TQV/the-full-transcription-deciphered-german-and-english)

Established

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## The questions it answers

[Is the 2011 decipherment of the Copiale cipher correct?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/questions/QST0CYVFHD600F6/is-the-2011-decipherment-of-the-copiale-cipher-correct)

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## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The manuscript is a homophonic substitution cipher for eighteenth-century German, with Roman letters as… [Answer ANS0CYVFJCE19GS]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0CYVFJCE19GS
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**ANS** 0CYVFJCE19GS

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