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De subtilitate

Girolamo Cardano, 1550.

Girolamo Cardano's encyclopedic work on natural philosophy and inventions, in which he described the grille later named after him for hiding a message inside an innocent cover text.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptBookChecked against the original0

What it's used for here

The procedure-fingerprinting survey cites it for the Cardan grille, a later concealment method relevant as a possible mechanism.

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Cardano, G. (1550). De subtilitate. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL784313W
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