Cardinal Campeggio’s articles for the French crown, c. 1534

f41r_lasry_overlay.txt

# BnF fr. 3081 f. 41r: George Lasry's decipherment (24 May 2022), transcribed from his three overlay crops
# (cryptiana GL.htm, GL_BnFfr3081_f41_decipher1-3.png; copies in the main checkout targets/marechaux1520/prior/,
# git-ignored). One line per cipher line of the page, his letters as written over the signs (no word division);
# small letters in his overlay (n in AIANT, r in BOVRGON) taken as part of the word. Transcribed 23 Oct 2026,
# Claude Opus 5.5 (REREAD_BRIEF, batch b30). Lines marked * were checked on the native image p1.png (3424 px):
# see f41r_corrections.tsv.
h1  ARTICLESIVRESPARMONSIEVRLE
h2  CARDINALCAMPEGEESMAINSDE
h3  MESEIGNEVRSLESCARDINAVLX
h4  DEBOVRGONLORAINEETTORNON
01* AIANTMOILAVRENSCARDINALDECAMPEGEDAR
02* LONGVEEXPERIENCECOGNEVQVANTDEDOVM
03  AGEAPORTEALACRESTIENTEETMESMEMENT
04  AVSIEGEAPOSTOLICQVELADISENTIONDES
05  PRINCESCRESTIENSNEEPARDIVERSDESIRSDE
06  AVGMENTERLEVRSEIGNEVRIEETDITIONETAINSI
07* CONMELVNGAVOVLVSVPEDITERLAVLTREDAR
08* ARMESETCHASCVNDEFENDRELESIENLONEST
09  VENVALAGVEREETAVLXARMESENTRELESCREST
10  IENSCRVELEMENTPARPLVSIEVRSANSETAVCV
11  NSDESPAPESPASESONTESTECONSTRAINSDE
12  SVBIRETENTRERENMESMESPERILETDESPENS
13  DELAGVERETANTQVELESIEGEAPOSTOLIC
14  QVELESIEGEAPOSTOLICQVEETLACRESTIENTE
15  ESTOITQVASIDIMINVEEIVSQVESALADERNI
16  EREFINLAQVELECOVVOITISEAIANTPLVSI
17  EVRSFOISCONTESTEAVECQVESICEVLXOFICI
18  ERSQVILAPARTENOITESTANTAVPRESDEDIVE
19  RSPRINCESIAIMISTOVTEMONESTVDEDE
20  LEVERETACCORDERENTREEVLXPLVSSTABILE
21  ETVNIVERSELLEPAIXAFINQVEDEMOVRANT
22  LACRESTIENTEPACIFISQVEETLESPRINCESCONT
23  ENSDELEVRSCONFINSCEPENSASTDERECOVV
24  RERTANTDEPROVINCESOCVPEESDESINFI
25  DELESETDEBELERETCONBATRELECONMVNG
26  ENEMIDENOVSTREFOILEGRANTTHVRCETEXTIR
27  PERPLVSIEVRSHERESIESQVICOVRENTENCE
28* TEMPSSIESPLOREETCALAMITEVLXLESQVELES
29  CHOVSESSITRESARDVESETDIFILESNESEPEV
30  VENTFAIREPOVRNEDONERAPENCERSANSLE
31  BONCONSEILAIDEETPVISANCEDVROITRESCRE
# f. 41v line 1 continues: STIENETSERENISIMESEIGNEVRFRANCOISRO[Y] (f41v_lines01-19.md)

f41r_reading.md

# BnF fr. 3081 f. 41r: Cardinal Campeggio's articles for the conclave (October 1534), reading

Rests on: George Lasry's decipherment (key and overlays dated 24 May 2022, on S. Tomokiyo's cryptiana page GL.htm),
transcribed here letter by letter from his three overlay crops (`f41r_lasry_overlay.txt`; copies of the crops in the
main checkout, `targets/marechaux1520/prior/`, git-ignored). The figures were checked on the native DECODE image
(R2322 P1, 3424 px) at seven places (`f41r_corrections.tsv`): one overlay letter changed (l. 7 "DAR" is the Rg sign,
P, as on f. 41v: "par armes"), one look-alike kept as a hole (l. 1), and two overlay letters resolved on the figures (l. 22 "pacificque", l. 28 "si esplore"). Word division, apostrophes and punctuation are
added; the spelling is the figures' (no accents added, no modernisation). The text runs on to f. 41v
(`f41v_decryption.md`), which begins "stien et serenissime seigneur Francois roy ...".

Holes: [?par] (l. 1: the figures give D, the look-alike of P; 1 letter rests on a look-alike alternate); [sic] for a
repeated phrase (l. 13-14). Nothing else is bracketed.

## Reading

Articles iures par monsieur le cardinal Campege es mains de messeigneurs les cardinaulx de Bourgon, Loraine et Tornon.

Aiant moi, Laurens cardinal de Campege, [?par] longue experience cogneu quant de doumage a porte a la crestiente, et
mesmement au siege apostolicque, la disention des princes crestiens, nee par divers desirs de augmenter leur seigneurie
et dition. Et ainsi comme l'ung a voulu supediter l'aultre par armes et chascun defendre le sien, l'on est venu a la
guere et aulx armes entre les crestiens cruelement par plusieurs ans. Et aucuns des papes passes ont este constrains de
subir et entrer en mesmes peril et despens de la guere, et tant que le siege apostolic, que le siege apostolicque [sic]
et la crestiente estoit quasi diminuee iusques a la derniere fin. Laquele covvoitise aiant plusieurs fois conteste
avecque si ceulx oficiers qu'il apartenoit, estant aupres de divers princes, i'ai mis toute mon estude de lever et
accorder entre eulx plus stabile et universelle paix, afin que, demourant la crestiente pacificque et les princes
contens de leurs confins, ce pensast de recouvrer tant de provinces ocupees des infideles, et debeler et conbatre le
conmung enemi de noustre foi, le grant Thurc, et extirper plusieurs heresies qui courent en ce temps si esplore et
calamiteulx. Lesquelles chouses si tres ardues et difiles ne se peuvent faire, pour ne doner a pencer, sans le bon
conseil, aide et puisance du roi tres cre-

## Notes

- "Bourgon": the figures (Lasry's B O V r G O N) give Bourgon for Bourbon; Cardinal Jean de Bourbon-Vendôme. Kept.
- "doumage": the V sign carries a tilde, not expanded.
- l. 13-14: "le siege apostolic" at the end of l. 13, "que le siege apostolicque" at the start of l. 14 (a dittography
  in the copy or the overlay; not checked sign by sign).

f41r_reading.md

# BnF fr. 3081 f. 41r: Cardinal Campeggio's articles for the conclave (October 1534), reading

Rests on: George Lasry's decipherment (key and overlays dated 24 May 2022, on S. Tomokiyo's cryptiana page GL.htm),
transcribed here letter by letter from his three overlay crops (`f41r_lasry_overlay.txt`; copies of the crops in the
main checkout, `targets/marechaux1520/prior/`, git-ignored). The figures were checked on the native DECODE image
(R2322 P1, 3424 px) at seven places (`f41r_corrections.tsv`): one overlay letter changed (l. 7 "DAR" is the Rg sign,
P, as on f. 41v: "par armes"), one look-alike kept as a hole (l. 1), and two overlay letters resolved on the figures (l. 22 "pacificque", l. 28 "si esplore"). Word division, apostrophes and punctuation are
added; the spelling is the figures' (no accents added, no modernisation). The text runs on to f. 41v
(`f41v_decryption.md`), which begins "stien et serenissime seigneur Francois roy ...".

Holes: [?par] (l. 1: the figures give D, the look-alike of P; 1 letter rests on a look-alike alternate); [sic] for a
repeated phrase (l. 13-14). Nothing else is bracketed.

## Reading

Articles iures par monsieur le cardinal Campege es mains de messeigneurs les cardinaulx de Bourgon, Loraine et Tornon.

Aiant moi, Laurens cardinal de Campege, [?par] longue experience cogneu quant de doumage a porte a la crestiente, et
mesmement au siege apostolicque, la disention des princes crestiens, nee par divers desirs de augmenter leur seigneurie
et dition. Et ainsi comme l'ung a voulu supediter l'aultre par armes et chascun defendre le sien, l'on est venu a la
guere et aulx armes entre les crestiens cruelement par plusieurs ans. Et aucuns des papes passes ont este constrains de
subir et entrer en mesmes peril et despens de la guere, et tant que le siege apostolic, que le siege apostolicque [sic]
et la crestiente estoit quasi diminuee iusques a la derniere fin. Laquele covvoitise aiant plusieurs fois conteste
avecque si ceulx oficiers qu'il apartenoit, estant aupres de divers princes, i'ai mis toute mon estude de lever et
accorder entre eulx plus stabile et universelle paix, afin que, demourant la crestiente pacificque et les princes
contens de leurs confins, ce pensast de recouvrer tant de provinces ocupees des infideles, et debeler et conbatre le
conmung enemi de noustre foi, le grant Thurc, et extirper plusieurs heresies qui courent en ce temps si esplore et
calamiteulx. Lesquelles chouses si tres ardues et difiles ne se peuvent faire, pour ne doner a pencer, sans le bon
conseil, aide et puisance du roi tres cre-

## Notes

- "Bourgon": the figures (Lasry's B O V r G O N) give Bourgon for Bourbon; Cardinal Jean de Bourbon-Vendôme. Kept.
- "doumage": the V sign carries a tilde, not expanded.
- l. 13-14: "le siege apostolic" at the end of l. 13, "que le siege apostolicque" at the start of l. 14 (a dittography
  in the copy or the overlay; not checked sign by sign).

f41r_en.md

# BnF fr. 3081 f. 41r: Cardinal Campeggio's articles for the conclave (October 1534), English

Translation of `f41r_reading.md` (George Lasry's decipherment, figures checked at seven places). Same holes.

Articles sworn by my lord Cardinal Campeggio into the hands of my lords the Cardinals of Bourbon, Lorraine and Tournon.

I, Lorenzo, Cardinal Campeggio, having learnt [?by] long experience how much harm the discord of the Christian princes,
born of their various desires to enlarge their lordship and dominion, has brought to Christendom, and above all to the
Apostolic See: as each has sought to overpower the other by arms and each to defend his own, it has come to war and to
arms among Christians, cruelly, for many years. And some of the past popes have been forced to undergo and enter into
the same danger and expense of war, so far that the Apostolic See [sic: repeated] and Christendom were almost brought
low to the very end. Having many times striven against this covetousness, with those officers to whom it belonged,
being about divers princes, I have put all my study into raising and settling among them a more stable and universal
peace, so that, Christendom remaining at peace and the princes content within their borders, it might think of
recovering so many provinces occupied by the infidels, and of subduing and fighting the common enemy of our faith, the
Great Turk, and of rooting out the many heresies that run in these times so woeful and calamitous. Which things,
so very hard and difficult, cannot be done, not to say thought of, without the good counsel, help and power of the most
Chris[tian] king

(continues on f. 41v: "... and most serene lord Francis, King of France, whose Majesty has often been asked to
contribute to the enterprise of the expedition against the said Great Turk ...")

f41v_letters.txt

STIENETSERENISIMESEIGNEVRFRANCOISRO[Y]
DEFRANCELAMAIESTEDVQVELAE?TESOVVENTE
FOISRESERCHEEDECONTRIBVERALENTREPRINSE
DELEXPEDITIONCONTREICELV[Y]GRANTT[H]VRC
S[I]ILATOVSIOVRS?IEELEPOVVANTFAIRE
SINONQVEPREMIERSAMAIESTEFEVS[T]REINTEGREE
ETRESTIVVEEENLADVCHEDEMILANCONTEDASTETSEI
GNEVRIEDEGENESDESQVELLENAVOITESTESPOLIE[E]
VIOLENTEMENTETPARFORCEETPENDANTQVESAMAIES
TENESTOITREINTEGREEENSESSEIGNEVRIESNEPO
VVOITPENCERAVNEEXPEDITIONSILOINGTAINE
NEAVXCHOVSESOCVPEESDICELVYGRANTTH
VRCPARQVOYVEOYANTLAVOLVNTEETGRANDE
ENVIEDVDITTRESCRESTIENROYNESTRESILOING
DESARMESQVILNELESPVISSEREPRENDREENMA
NIEREQVELAPAIXSVINAAVCVNLIENFERMESE
CONGNOISSESOITPOVRENGENDRERBIENTOVSTET
PRESTEMENTENITALIEAVLTREPLVSGRANDE
FLA?EDEGVEREQVEDEVANTSIMOYENANTL?S
GRACEDEDIEV LONNEVIENTAPENCERDIPOVR
VEOIRCEQVEPARGRANDEEXPERIENCESECOGN
OISTNEPOVVOIRFAIRESANS[CON]TENTERENQV
ELQVEPARTIELEDITTRESCRESTIENROIETPOVR
CESILPLAISTADIEVMEDONNERGRACEDESTRE
PAPESVISVENVAVECQVESLESNEGOTIATEVRS
DESAMAIESTEAVXARTICLESCISOVSCRIPT[S?][ET]
AVX[CON]VENTIONSPARMOII VREES
ETPREMIEREMENTIESAIERAIAVECQVESTOVT
EDEMONSTRATIONPERSVASIONETEXHORTATIO
NQVELONPOVROITVSERAINSIDEVERS[UNK]ETSES
SVCCES[?]VRS [CON]MEVERSLE[UNK1]DETENTEVR[?]IDV
DVCHEDEMILANETTOVTLESTATDVDITDVCHE
[CON]TEDASTETSEIGNEVRIEDEGENESQVELESDICT[?]
ESTAT[X]ETSEIGNEVRIE[S]SOIENTRENDV[S]ETRESTITV
E[?]ESMAINSDVDITSEIGNEVRROITRESCRESTIEN
OVDESILVSTRISINESSEIGNEVRSSESENFANSET
SVCESSEVRSETQVANT[P][A]R[UNK1]ESDICTESPERSVASIONSETVOIE

f41v_lines01-19.md

# BnF fr. 3081 f.41v, lines 1-19 (first reading, sign-by-sign with Lasry's key)

Sign notes from this pass (beyond key3x.png):
- "ⵌⵌⵌ" (three/four vertical strokes on a bar; key lists as H row 3) reads Y in context (ROY, ICELVY). Treated as Y.
- Diamond with underline (key T top) = T; "ʀʒ" = P (row 3), "ʀc" = D (row 2): the two are easy to confuse.
- "ɓɳ" with loop above = CON sign.
- "cɷ" = X (key X top).

## Line 1
STIENETSERENISIMESEIGNEVRFRANCOISRO[Y]
... [chre]stien et serenis[s]ime seigneur Francois roy
(line continues from f.41r; SERENISIME has one S sign; last sign read as Y)

## Line 2
DEFRANCELAMAIESTEDVQVELAE?TESOVVENTE
de France, la Maieste duquel a e[s]te souvente-
(one faint stroke before T unread: probably a slip or S)

## Line 3
FOISRESERCHEEDECONTRIBVERALENTREPRINSE
fois reserchee de contribuer a l'entreprinse

## Line 4
DELEXPEDITIONCONTREICELV[Y]GRANTT[H]VRC
de l'expedition contre icelluy grant Turc
(the T-H-V-R-C group: ʂ° oᴛo ℑ' ◇° P; oᴛo is H in the key, so "grant Turc" assumes a stray/variant sign)

## Line 5
QVILATOVSIOVRSNIEELEPOVVANTFAIRE
qu'il a tousiours niee, le pouvant faire
(first sign is the big looped Q sign, not S (late correction); signs after TOVSIOVRS: ɖ K ɥ ⵡ = N I E E, confirmed at high zoom in the second pass: "niee" = refused, agreeing with "l'entreprinse")

## Line 6
SINONQVEPREMIERSAMAIESTEFEVS[T]REINTEGREE
sinon que premier sa Maieste feust reintegree
(sign after FEVS is a plain diamond; read T from context)

## Line 7
ETRESTIVVEEENLADVCHEDEMILANCONTEDASTETSEI
et restituee en la duche de Milan, conte d'Ast et sei-

## Line 8
GNEVRIEDEGENESDESQVELLENAVOITESTESPOLIE[E]
-gneurie de Gennes, desquelle[s] n'avoit este spoliee
(ꭗ-shaped sign = L, key L row 2; the N-A-V-O-I-T group is uncertain in the O)
(line 8 re-read at higher zoom: after QVEL the signs are ʗ ɥ q ʂ ʃt ᴧ K ◇̲ = N E L A V O I T, so perhaps "desquel[les] ne l'avoit (a) este spoliee"; wording uncertain, sense clear)

## Line 9
VIOLENTEMENTETPARFORCEETPENDANTQVESAMAIES
violentement et par force. Et pendant que sa Maies-

## Line 10
TENESTOITREINTEGREEENSESSEIGNEVRIESNEPO
-te n'estoit reintegree en ses seigneuries ne po-
(last two signs read P O with low confidence)

## Line 11
VVOITPENCERAVNEEXPEDITIONSILOINGTAINE
-voit pencer a une expedition si loingtaine

## Line 12
NEAVXCHOVSESOCVPEESDICELVYGRANTTH
ne aux chouses oc[c]upees d'iceluy grant Th-
(third pass: the group after CHOVSES is Ⴄ O, ɤ° C, ɉ' V, ɜ P, 4 E, ɥ E, h S = OCVPEES, 'occupees' with one C; grade C)
(ꭗ̃ = V gives "chouses", an attested spelling; the group ʖ ᴧy ᐱ° ℑ' ⅁ 4 ɥ ʖ is not understood; ⅁ read as O row 2)

## Line 13
VRCPARQVOYVEOYANTLAVOLVNTEETGRANDE
-urc. Par quoy, veoyant la volunte et grande
(confirms "Thurc" spelling: ʂ° oᴛo = T H, as in line 4)

## Line 14
ENVIEDVDITTRESCRESTIENROYNESTRESILOING
envie dudit treschrestien roy, n'estre si loing

## Line 15
DESARMESQVILNELESPVISSEREPRENDREENMA
des armes qu'il
(third pass: the sign read E after R is ƅ, Lasry's M row 2, the same glyph as in 'en ma-' on this line: DESARMES; grade C)
(old reading:) de s[?]arees(?) qu'il ne les puisse reprendre, en ma-
(the group ʖ = ◇° 4 ɥ ʖ = S A R E E S is not understood; rest clear)

## Line 16
NIEREQVELAPAIXQVINAAVCVNLIENFERMESE
-niere que la paix, qui n'a aucun lien ferme, se
(after PAIX: big looped Q sign (late correction, not S), ꭗ' V, K I, ɖ N, = A, ȶ A = QVINAA; the A is written twice (A row 3 then A row 1), a scribal doubling: "qui n'a aucun")

## Line 17
CONGNOISSESOITPOVRENGENDRERBIENTOVSTET
congnoisse, soit pour engendrer bien toust et

## Line 18
PRESTEMENTENITALIEAVLTREPLVSGRANDE
prestement en Italie aultre plus grande

## Line 19
FLA?EDEGVEREQVEDEVANTSIMOYENANTL?S
fla[m]e de guer[r]e que devant; si moyennant l[e]s ...
(sign 4 is a small ҁ-hook not matched in the key; "flame" is a context guess. △ = R, key R row 2)

## Corrections found late (apply to earlier lines)
- The big looped sign "ɗꭗ" (read as S, key S top) is Q in lines 5, 16, 19: line 5 = QVIL A TOVSIOVRS NIE[E]..., line 16 = LA PAIX QVI NA AVCVN LIEN FERME, line 19 = QVE DEVANT.
  So line 5: QVILATOVSIOVRSNIEELEPOVVANTFAIRE, "qu'il a tousiours nie(e), le pouvant faire" (NIEE uncertain).
  Line 16: NIEREQVELAPAIXQVINAAVCVNLIENFERMESE, "-niere que la paix, qui n'a aucun lien ferme, se"
- Plain or dotted diamond is ambiguous: P (key P top) vs R (△, key R row 2) vs a T-like reading in FEVS[T], DVDI[T].

## Running text (lines 1-19, normalised)
... [tres chre]stien et serenis[s]ime seigneur Francois roy de France, la Maieste duquel a este souventefois
reserchee de contribuer a l'entreprinse de l'expedition contre iceluy grant Turc, qu'il a tousiours nie[e]
(?), le pouvant faire sinon que premier sa Maieste feust reintegree et restituee en la duche de Milan, conte
d'Ast et seigneurie de Gennes, desquel[les] ne l'avoit este spoliee violentement et par force. Et pendant que
sa Maieste n'estoit reintegree en ses seigneuries, ne povoit pencer a une expedition si loingtaine ne aux
chouses [?] d'iceluy grant Thurc. Par quoy, veoyant la volunte et grande envie dudit treschrestien roy
n'estre si loing de s[?]arees qu'il ne les puisse reprendre, en maniere que la paix, qui n'a aucun lien
ferme, se congnoisse, soit pour engendrer bien toust et prestement en Italie aultre plus grande fla[m]e de
guerre que devant; si moyennant l[e]s ...

f41v_lines20-38.md

# BnF fr. 3081 f.41v, lines 20-35 (reading with Lasry's key)

Line numbering: line centres found by ink projection on decode/p2.png; line 19 at y=2411, line 20 at y=2518 ... line 35 at y=4277 (last line). Gap (paragraph break) between line 27 and line 28.

Key note: the sign that looks like "Rg" (P row 3) is P, not T; it gives "penser", "pourveoir", "pouvoir", "par", "partie". The "4"-shape with a loop (ɥ°) acts as R (ɣ° R1 written that way).

## Line 20 (y=2518)
Letters: GRACEDEDIEV LONNEVIENTAPENCERDIPOVR
Reading: [grace de dieu] l'on ne vient a pencer d'y pour-
(first word may run on from line 19)

## Line 21 (y=2644)
Letters: VEOIRCEQVEPARGRANDEEXPERIENCESECOGN
Reading: -veoir, ce que par grande experience se cogn-

## Line 22 (y=2748)
Letters: OISTNEPOVVOIRFAIRESANS[CON]TENTERENQV
Reading: -oist ne pouvoir faire sans contenter en qu-
(CON = the special CON sign)

## Line 23 (y=2873)
Letters: ELQVEPARTIELEDITTRESCRESTIENROIETPOVR
Reading: -elque partie le dit tres crestien roi, et pour

## Line 24 (y=2991)
Letters: CESILPLAISTADIEVMEDONNERGRACEDESTRE
Reading: ce, s'il plaist a Dieu me donner grace d'estre
(last sign before E read as R, a tilde-form; "d'estre" fits)

## Line 25 (y=3112)
Letters: PAPESVISVENVAVECQVESLESNEGOTIATEVRS
Reading: pape, suis venu avecques les negotiateurs

## Line 26 (y=3243)
Letters: DESAMAIESTEAVXARTICLESCISOVSCRIPT[S?][ET]
Reading: de sa maieste aux articles ci souscript[s] et
(the right half repeats S at the join; counted once. Final flourished sign after T read as [S?]; last sign is the ET sign)

## Line 27 (y=3356) - last line of the paragraph
Letters: AVX[CON]VENTIONSPARMOII VREES
Reading: aux conventions par moi iurees (= jurées).
(ɧɧɧ and K-shaped sign both = I, giving "MOII"; perhaps MOY/"moi i-". Line ends short, then gap.)

## Line 28 (y=3489) - new paragraph
Letters: ETPREMIEREMENTIESAIERAIAVECQVESTOVT
Reading: Et premierement ie [s]aierai (= j'essaierai?) avecques tout-

## Line 29 (y=3593)
Letters: EDEMONSTRATIONPERSVASIONETEXHORTATIO
Reading: -e demonstration, persuasion et exhortatio-

## Line 30 (y=3703)
Letters: NQVELONPOVROITVSERAINSIDEVERS[UNK]ETSES
Reading: -n que l'on pourroit user, ainsi devers [UNK] et ses
([UNK] = Lasry's second "Unknown" sign, the ɱɱɓ-like cluster; probably a code for a person, e.g. the Emperor/Pope. POVROIT: the small triangle read as R row 2)

## Line 31 (y=3818)
Letters: SVCCES[?]VRS [CON]MEVERSLE[UNK1]DETENTEVR[?]IDV
Reading: successeurs, comme vers le [UNK1] detenteur [?]i du
(C2 sign read twice in SVCC-; sign after SVCCES looks like A row 1 (crossed b), expected E/S; [UNK1] = Lasry's first "Unknown" sign (bold ʃ); a black triangle before "IDV" may be a blot or R row 2)

## Line 32 (y=3932)
Letters: DVCHEDEMILANETTOVTLESTATDVDITDVCHE
Reading: duche de Milan, et tout l'estat du dit duche

## Line 33 (y=4045)
Letters: [CON]TEDASTETSEIGNEVRIEDEGENESQVELESDICT[?]
Reading: conte d'Ast et seigneurie de Gennes, que les dict[s]

## Line 34 (y=4161)
Letters: ESTAT[X]ETSEIGNEVRIE[S]SOIENTRENDV[S]ETRESTITV
Reading: estatz et seigneuries soient rendus et restitu-
(ϕ-like sign after ESTAT = X row 2, i.e. "estatx/estatz"; the S before OIENT is a small S row 3)

## Line 35 (y=4277)
Letters: E[?]ESMAINSDVDITSEIGNEVRROITRESCRESTIEN
Reading: -e[z] es mains du dit seigneur roi tres crestien
(second sign is a small V-like sign (V row 1 form), expected Z; read "restitue[z]")

## Line 36 (y=4405)
Letters: OVDESILVSTRISINESSEIGNEVRSSESENFANSET
Reading: ou des il[l]ustris[s]i[m]es seigneurs ses enfans et
(sign read N (ƥ-like) where M expected in "illustrissimes"; possibly a misreading or scribe slip)

## Line 37 (y=4530) - last line of the page
Letters: SVCESSEVRSETQVANT[P][A]R[UNK1]ESDICTESPERSVASIONSETVOIE
Reading: successeurs. Et quant par [s]es dictes persuasions et voie ...
(a stain covers the two signs after QVANT; read P A. [UNK1] = Lasry's first "Unknown" (bold ʃ) again; "par ses dictes persuasions" suggests UNK1 = S, which also gives "vers les detenteur…" in line 31. A faint mark in the left margin is not counted. The text runs on past the page: no closing or signature on f.41v.)

## Continuous reading (lines 20-37)
[...] l'on ne vient a penser d'y pourveoir, ce que par grande experience se cognoist ne pouvoir faire sans contenter en quelque partie le dit tres crestien roi. Et pour ce, s'il plaist a Dieu me donner grace d'estre pape, suis venu avecques les negotiateurs de Sa Maieste aux articles ci souscripts et aux conventions par moi iurees.

Et premierement ie [s]aierai avecques toute demonstration, persuasion et exhortation que l'on pourroit user, ainsi devers [UNK] et ses successeurs comme vers le[s] detenteur[s?] [?]i du duche de Milan et tout l'estat du dit duche, conte d'Ast et seigneurie de Gennes, que les dicts estatz et seigneuries soient rendus et restitue[z] es mains du dit seigneur roi tres crestien ou des illustrissimes seigneurs ses enfans et successeurs. Et quant par [s]es dictes persuasions et voie ... [continues]

## Second pass (retry)

Each doubtful place re-cropped from decode/p2.png at 3-4x with autocontrast. Grades: H certain, C probable, M possible, I unresolved.

| Line | Place | Signs seen | Reading | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | "a e[s]te" | ȶ (A) ɥ (E), then a faint, lightly inked ʌ-shaped sign, then ◇̲ (T) ⵡ (E) | the faint sign has the form of S row 3 (ʌ), only lightly inked: "a este" | C |
| 5 | NIE[E] | ɗꭗ (Q) ... ɖ (N row 2) K (I) ɥ (E row 2) ⵡ (E row 3), all clear | "qu'il a tousiours niee" (refused; feminine, agreeing with l'entreprinse) | H |
| 8 | "desquel[les] ne l'avoit" | ⵌⵌ (Q) ꭗ' (V) ɥ (E) q (L) ꝛ-loop with long curled tail (S row 4) ⵡ (E) ɖ (N row 2) ȣ (A row 2) ʃt (V row 2) ᴧɣ (O) K (I) ◇̲ (T) | DESQVELSENAVOIT, "desquels en avoit este spoliee" (the earlier ʗ = N and ʂ = A were misidentified) | C |
| 12 | SORVOEES after "chouses" | ʂ (S) ⵡ (E) ʂ (S) \| ᴧɣ (O row 1) ɣ° (R row 1) ꭗ' (V) ʒ (O row 2) ɥ (E) ⵡ (E) ʂ (S), all clear | letters CHOVSES ORVOEES (or CHOVSE SORVOEES) are certain; the word is not understood (perhaps a form of "surveoir"; not an emendation) | letters H, sense I |
| 15 | "de S?AREES" | ɷɥ (D) ⵡ (E) ʂ (S) = (A) ɣ° (R) ɥ (E) ⵡ (E) ʂ (S), all clear | DESAREES: no unread sign; the word ("de s'arrees"? "desarrees"?) is not understood | letters H, sense I |
| 16 | doubled A | ɗꭗ (Q) ꭗ' (V) K (I) ɖ (N) = (A row 3) ȶ (A row 1), two distinct signs, not a crop overlap | scribal doubling: "qui n'a aucun" | H (signs), C (slip) |
| 19 | sign 4 of "fla?e" | a sign with a head loop and flag to the right and a long descender curling left at the foot; closest to Lasry's Unknown 1 (bold ʃ) / G row 2; not an M form | "fla[m]e" remains a context guess; the sign itself is not M in the key | M |
| 27 | MOII | b (M) ᴧɣ (O) ⵌⵌⵌ (third H sign = Y) K (I) ꭗ' (V) ɣ° (R) E E S | MOYIVREES, "par moy iurees" | H |
| 30 | cluster before "et ses successeurs" | ɱɱɓ cluster = Lasry's Unknown 2 exactly, then the ET sign, S E S | a code group, most likely a person or power holding Milan (the Emperor?), not decipherable from this page | I |
| 31 | SVCCES?VRS | ʂ ꭗ' P ɣ° (C row 2) ⵡ (E) ⅄ (S) + a boxed sign with a stem through it, ꭗ̃ (V) ɣ°• (R) ʂ (S) | the boxed sign is an E row 2 (ɥ) variant rather than A row 1: SVCCESEVRS, "successeurs" | C |
| 31 | end "detenteur[?]i du" | ɇ (E) ꭗ̃ (V) ɣ°• (R) ▲ solid (S row 3) ɷɥ (D) ꭗ' (V); there is no I sign | "vers les detenteurs du duche" (the bold ʃ before DETENTEVRS = S, as in line 37) | H |
| 35 | E?ES | ɥ (E) ꝛ-loop with curled tail (S row 4, as in line 8) ɥ (E) ʌ (S) | "restitu-es es mains": the second sign is S, not Z/V | C |
| 36 | ILVSTRISINES | ... ʑ (T) ɣ° (R) K (I) ⅄ (S) ɥʅ (I row 2) ᵬ (M row 2, part under the stain) ⵡ (E) ʂ (S) | ILVSTRISIMES, "illustrissimes": the supposed N is M row 2 | C |
| 37 | two stained signs after QVANT | ʀg (P row 3) under the stain, ȣ (A row 2), then ɣ° (R), the bold ʃ (partly blotted) E S | "quant par ses dictes persuasions" | C |

Revised readings from this pass: line 8 "desquels en avoit este spoliee"; line 31 "successeurs, comme vers les detenteurs du duche"; line 35 "restitues es mains"; line 36 "illustrissimes"; line 27 "par moy iurees". Still open: line 12 ORVOEES, line 15 SAREES (letters certain, sense unknown), line 19 sign 4, line 30 Unknown 2 code group.

f41v_decryption.md

# BnF fr. 3081 f. 41v, decryption (running text, normalised)

Copied verbatim from NOTES.md, section "The reading of f. 41v" (deciphered with George Lasry's key, 21 Sept 2026; second and third passes in NOTES.md). Letter by letter: f41v_letters.txt; line by line: f41v_lines01-19.md, f41v_lines20-38.md.

> … [tres chre]stien et serenissime seigneur Francois roy de France, la Maieste duquel a esté souventefois
> recherchée de contribuer a l'entreprinse de l'expedition contre iceluy grant Turc, qu'il a tousiours niée,
> le pouvant faire sinon que premier sa Maieste feust reintegrée et restituée en la duché de Milan, conté d'Ast
> et seigneurie de Gennes, desquels en avoit esté spoliée violentement et par force. Et pendant que sa
> Maieste n'estoit reintegrée en ses seigneuries, ne povoit pencer a une expedition si loingtaine ne aux chouses
> oc[c]upées d'iceluy grant Thurc. Par quoy, veoyant la volunté et grande envie dudit treschrestien roy n'estre si loing des armes qu'il ne les
> puisse reprendre, en maniere que la paix, qui n'a aucun lien ferme, … soit pour engendrer bien toust et
> prestement en Italie aultre plus grande fla[m]e de guerre que devant; si moyennant l[e]s … l'on ne vient a
> penser d'y pourveoir, ce que par grande experience se cognoist ne pouvoir faire sans contenter en quelque
> partie le dit tres crestien roi. Et pour ce, s'il plaist a Dieu me donner grace d'estre pape, suis venu
> avecques les negotiateurs de Sa Maieste aux articles ci souscripts et aux conventions par moy iurees.
>
> Et premierement ie [s]aierai avecques toute demonstration, persuasion et exhortation que l'on pourroit user,
> ainsi devers [code: the Emperor?] et ses successeurs comme vers les detenteurs du duche de Milan et tout
> l'estat du dit duche, conte d'Ast et seigneurie de Gennes, que les dicts estatz et seigneuries soient rendus et
> restitues es mains du dit seigneur roi tres crestien ou des illustrissimes seigneurs ses enfans et
> successeurs. Et quant par ses dictes persuasions et voie …

f. 41v breaks off mid-sentence with no signature.

f41v_en.md

# BnF fr. 3081 f. 41v: Campeggio's articles for the conclave [October 1534], continued: English translation

Translation (Claude Opus 5.5, 23 Oct 2026) of `texts/f41v_decryption.md`, the running text of f. 41v deciphered with
George Lasry's key. Same holes: `…` an unread stretch, `[x]` letters supplied, `[code: the Emperor?]` a code sign read
by context. The sentence comes over from f. 41r (`texts/f41r_en.md`); f. 41v breaks off mid-sentence with no
signature.

## Translation

… [most Chri]stian and most serene lord Francis, King of France, whose Majesty has often been sought to contribute to
the enterprise of the expedition against that same Grand Turk, which he has always refused, not being able to do it
unless first His Majesty were reinstated and restored in the duchy of Milan, the county of Asti and the lordship of
Genoa, of which he had been despoiled violently and by force. And while His Majesty was not reinstated in his
lordships, he could not think of so distant an expedition, nor of the things occupied by that same Grand Turk.
Wherefore, seeing that the will and great desire of the said Most Christian King is not so far from arms that he
could not take them up again, in such a way that the peace, which has no firm bond, … is likely to engender very soon
and promptly in Italy another flame of war greater than before, if by means of th[e] … one does not come to think of
providing against it; which, by great experience, is known not to be possible without satisfying the said Most
Christian King in some part. And for this, if it please God to give me the grace to be pope, I have come with the
negotiators of His Majesty to the articles written below and to the conventions sworn by me.

And first, I shall [t]ry, with every demonstration, persuasion and exhortation that could be used, both towards [code:
?the Emperor] and his successors and towards the holders of the duchy of Milan and the whole state of the said duchy,
the county of Asti and the lordship of Genoa, that the said states and lordships be returned and restored into the
hands of the said lord, the Most Christian King, or of the most illustrious lords his children and successors. And
when by his said persuasions and way …