# Hermes 2022: Polygraphia III: The Cipher that Pretends to Be an Artificial Language

> Jürgen Hermes, 2022. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The book and the cryptanalysis surveys use its measurements of word-for-letter tables as…

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# Polygraphia III: The Cipher that Pretends to Be an Artificial Language

Jürgen Hermes, 2022. _Proceedings of the International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3313)_.

Shows that Trithemius's Polygraphia III, a word-for-letter cipher of 1518, produces text that looks like an invented language, and measures it against the Voynich text.

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## What it's used for here

The book and the cryptanalysis surveys use its measurements of word-for-letter tables as a comparison for the manuscript's word statistics.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[Reading Without a Key](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D8NJAWT22V4/reading-without-a-key)

The book, version 2.0

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[3 methods surveys]

Cryptanalysis, linguistics, encoding procedures

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## Cite it

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Hermes, J. (2022). Polygraphia III: The Cipher that Pretends to Be an Artificial Language. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3313). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3313/paper7.pdf
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