# Megyesi n.d.: The Copiale Cipher (project page, Decipherment of Historical Manuscripts)

> Beáta Megyesi, Stockholm University, n.d.. 23 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The dataset source and the authoritative description.

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# The Copiale Cipher (project page, Decipherment of Historical Manuscripts)

Beáta Megyesi, Stockholm University, n.d.. _su.se_.

The project's own page: manuscript description (105 pages, about 75,000 characters, about 100 symbols, brocade cover, two watermarks, c. 1730), the names of those who made it available, and downloads of the page images, covers, watermarks, full transcription, deciphered German, English translation and the Wolfenbüttel Oculist archive material (added February 2012).

**Copiale cipher** Web pageCopy of **[The Copiale cipher manuscript](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/artifacts/ART0CYVFS7629PZ/the-copiale-cipher-manuscript)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The dataset source and the authoritative description.

## Cited by on this site 23 records

[The manuscript was written around 1730 to the 1740s, as the project site and Önnerfors's reading of the hand…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/answers/ANS0CYVFP1M5KE4/the-manuscript-was-written-around-1730-to-the-1740s-as-the)

Answer

ANS

[The Copiale cipher manuscript](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/artifacts/ART0CYVFS7629PZ/the-copiale-cipher-manuscript)

ART

[The Oculists' archive (documents in the same cipher)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/artifacts/ART0CYVFSYM7QFP/the-oculists-archive-documents-in-the-same-cipher)

ART

[The Copiale cipher manuscript: scan](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/copies/CPY0CYVFSF01R82/the-copiale-cipher-manuscript-scan)

CPY

[The Copiale cipher manuscript: transcription](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/copies/CPY0CYVFTE874VS/the-copiale-cipher-manuscript-transcription)

CPY

[The Copiale cipher manuscript: transcription](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/copies/CPY0CYVFTP220FM/the-copiale-cipher-manuscript-transcription)

CPY

[The Copiale cipher manuscript: transcription](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/copies/CPY0CYVFSPT3WXF/the-copiale-cipher-manuscript-transcription)

CPY

[The Oculists' archive (documents in the same cipher): transcription](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/copies/CPY0CYVFT6E3FFB/the-oculists-archive-documents-in-the-same-cipher)

CPY

[The Oculists' archive (documents in the same cipher): transcription](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/copies/CPY0CYVFVDG4MFV/the-oculists-archive-documents-in-the-same-cipher)

CPY

[The Oculists' archive (documents in the same cipher): transcription](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/copies/CPY0CYVFVNA31AZ/the-oculists-archive-documents-in-the-same-cipher)

CPY

[Copiale cipher: page images, covers and watermarks](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0CYVFRQJ4HEW/copiale-cipher-page-images-covers-and-watermarks)

Dataset

DAT

[Copiale cipher: transcription, deciphered German and English translation](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0CYVFRFR7KKK/copiale-cipher-transcription-deciphered-german-and-english)

Dataset

DAT

[Oculist archive, Wolfenbüttel: transcription and deciphered German](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0CYVFRZC32TB/oculist-archive-wolfenbuttel-transcription-and-deciphered)

Dataset

DAT

[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)

Evidence

EVD

[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)

Evidence

EVD

[The project marks part of the Wolfenbüttel material as uncorrected, so minor errors in that extra material…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/evidence/EVD0CYVFKKG4KCZ/the-project-marks-part-of-the-wolfenbuttel-material-as)

Evidence

EVD

[The project page dates the manuscript to about 1730; Önnerfors proposed the 1740s from the handwriting.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/evidence/EVD0CYVFP9E7V6H/the-project-page-dates-the-manuscript-to-about-1730)

Evidence

EVD

[An owner writes "Philipp 1866" in the book](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/events/EVT0CYVFGNR2NY2/an-owner-writes-philipp-1866-in-the-book)

EVT

[The Oculist archive at Wolfenbüttel is transcribed and deciphered with the same key](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/events/EVT0CYVFH5C0F53/the-oculist-archive-at-wolfenbuttel-is-transcribed-and)

EVT

[Beáta Megyesi](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/people/FIG0CYVFF6W36DP/beata-megyesi)

FIG

[The Copiale cipher](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher)

The mystery article

MYS

[Staatsarchiv Wolfenbüttel](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/organisations/ORG0CYVFG6417FZ/staatsarchiv-wolfenbuttel)

ORG

[When was the manuscript written and by whom?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/copiale-cipher/questions/QST0CYVFHWT74XG/when-was-the-manuscript-written-and-by-whom)

Question

QST

## Cite it

```
Megyesi, B., & Stockholm University (n.d.). The Copiale Cipher (project page, Decipherment of Historical Manuscripts). su.se. https://www.su.se/english/research/research-catalogue/research-projects/d/decipherment-of-historical-manuscripts/the-copiale-cipher
```

[Read it free at su.se](https://www.su.se/english/research/research-catalogue/research-projects/d/decipherment-of-historical-manuscripts/the-copiale-cipher)

Key

**SRC** 0CYVFD0J3F4P

Kind

Web page

Rights

The publisher's

Kept

29 Oct 2026, for editors

Checked

Against the published original

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