Dorabella Cipher

Wikipedia contributors, n.d.. Wikipedia.

Reference article with the background, claimed solutions (Sams, Atance, Roberts, Henderson, Packwood, Wase) and the 2007 Elgar Society competition statement.

Dorabella cipherWeb pageChecked against the original0

What it's used for here

Source for the competition result and minor claims whose primary pages are archived.

Cited by on this site 10 records

One of the later claims (Roberts, Henderson, Packwood) is correct.

Answer

ANS

The note encodes a melody, the eight orientations standing for notes and the arc count for a modifier.

Answer

ANS

Packwood's method shifts each glyph's value independently without a stated rule.

Evidence

EVD

The reading expands 87 symbols to 109 letters, which requires many interpretive choices.

Evidence

EVD

Elgar Society Dorabella competition for the 150th anniversary; no entry accepted

EVT

Enigma Variations performed; Variation X is "Dorabella"

EVT

Edward Elgar

FIG

The Dorabella cipher

The mystery article

MYS

The Elgar Society

ORG

Is any published decipherment correct?

Question

QST

Cite it

Wikipedia contributors (n.d.). Dorabella Cipher. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorabella_Cipher

@misc{wikipedia_dorabella,
  author = {Wikipedia contributors},
  title = {Dorabella Cipher},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia},
  year = {n.d.},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorabella_Cipher}
}

TY  - ELEC
TI  - Dorabella Cipher
AU  - Wikipedia contributors
PY  - n.d.
JO  - Wikipedia
UR  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorabella_Cipher
ER  -

. “Dorabella Cipher.” Wikipedia (n.d.).