At a glanceExternal key matched · none (key obtained, text not read)
- The letters
- Inv. 24874 and 24876, two Italian letters to Ottavio Piccolomini, undated on the frames and probably of 1646, by writers not identified. 24874 begins in mid-letter; 24876 has two cipher blocks among clear lines (news from Vienna, Linz and Ratisbona).
- Where
- State Regional Archives Zlámrsk (SOA Zámrsk), Rodinný archiv Piccolominů. The images are photographs of a microfilm-reader screen in the appendix of V. Vlnas’s 2017 thesis (appendix B21, B22); letters are 15–20 pixels high. Not on DECODE.
- The cipher
- Consonants written plain, vowels a e i o u as the odd digits 1 3 5 7 9, even digits and plain vowel letters as nulls. In this cursive hand the digit 5 and the short s look alike, and so do 9, g and q, so many words depend on a choice by sense.
- How it was deciphered
- With the key V. Vlnas printed in 2017 for the neighbouring inv. 24873 (ch. 4.2, table 3), applied unchanged; the additions are 0 as a null, long s, and class signs for the lookalikes. Two passes of transcription per letter, reconciled on the image, and one independent blind check.
- What it says
- In 24874: letters received, “gran consolazione dalla di lei lettera”, a request for a just and exact report, and “l’arciduca mio signore”; the clear tail announces Don Miguel de Salamanca. In 24876: that the Duke of Bavaria wants peace by all means. Only part of this builds sentences.
- Still open
- Most sentences have holes, about 15 signs are unresolved, and a clean scan from SOA Zamrsk has not been ordered. The writers and dates are not known.
- Credit
- The key is V. Vlnas’s (2017). WAINUT transcribed the two letters, decoded them and checked them, working with AI agents; no human palaeographer has checked the text.
01 The letters
Inv. 24873 to 24876 sit in a run of Piccolomini cipher frames that Vlnas dates, where dated, to 1646; 24873_2 is dated in clear “li 13 [?9bre] 1646”. In 1646 Piccolomini served Spain in the Low Countries, and Archduke Leopold Wilhelm was named governor of the Spanish Netherlands at the end of that year, which fits 24874’s “governo” and “l’arciduca mio signore”, though nothing in the text names him. 24876’s Bavarian passages fit Bavaria’s move toward a separate truce in late 1646; this is context, not a statement of the letter.
V. Vlnas deciphered 24873 in his thesis Počítačová analýza šifrované korespondence rodu Piccolomini (Hradec Králové 2017) and did not decipher 24874 and 24876. That decipherment is prior art; what is new here is the first transcription and decoding of these two.
02 The key and its test
The even digits (2, 4, 6, 8 and 0) carry no value where the word around them reads as Italian: 24874 has 65 of them in 645 signs. A six is close to b and to t in this hand, so at two places a six stands where the sense needs another letter; both are marked as repairs. The writer often writes a doubled consonant once, as in 24873.
The key was frozen before the bare frames were transcribed and then applied to part of the cipher postscript of 24873_2, which Vlnas did not print. The 14 groups copied there all decode to Italian unchanged (desidera Sua Altezza, ragguaglio, sono, come ancora lei, che venendo, se ne possa governare). That is weak evidence: the key is a published table that could not have been tuned, the solver chose and scored the groups, and there is no external decipherment to grade against. The stronger support is that the key turns both letters, in two hands, into running Italian on the solver’s signs and on the blind check’s copy alike.
03 What is decoded, and why it is not read
Of 116 words in the cipher part of 24874, 76 decode verbatim from the signs (65.5%), and of 50 in 24876, 32 (64.0%). These are word counts of the decode, not a read share: the words do not yet build sentences (2 of 6 cipher sentences in 24874, 1 of 3 in 24876). Counted strictly, with no s/i or g/q/u/v choice, the figures are 33 of 116 (28.4%) and 14 of 50 (28.0%). Marked repairs, 6 and 4 words, are counted apart, and so are 7 and 2 words known only from context. Both letters are therefore decoded, not read.
24874 gives, in part: “Ecelenza havrà recevuto la mia delli [tredeci] … gran consolazione dalla di lei [lettera] … desidera dunque una giusta et per[…] relatione … asicurandola che … havrà consolatione”. Lines 1 to 3, the faintest on the photograph, are mostly holes. The decoded text with every hole, and a draft English translation, are under Full texts; the clear passages there are draft readings from the photograph and are not counted.
04 What remains uncertain
- Neither letter builds sentences; the holes are mostly in 24874 lines 1–3 and 14–20 and in 24876 block A. A clean scan from SOA Zamrsk, not ordered, should raise both letters much further.
- About 15 signs stay unresolved after the blind check at three to four times magnification.
- Most read words depend on a class choice by sense for the lookalike shapes; the class-free figures are 28%.
- The clear passages are draft readings from the photograph only. The writers are not identified, the signature of 24873_2 is not legible, and 24874 and 24876 are undated.
- The held-out test is 14 groups chosen and scored by the solver. No human palaeographer has checked any sign.
Full texts
The transcription and the decryption of every document on this page, so that the reading can be used and checked. Short files are shown here; all are in the repository.
inv. 24874 (Vlnas 2017 appendix B21) decoded, not read
An outline only (the letter is decoded, not read). The writer, reporting for someone he calls 'l'arciduca mio signore', says that 'Sua [...]' (the title is a hole) took great consolation from Piccolomini's [?letter] and wishes 'una giusta et per [...] relatione', since Piccolomini knows best which advices are needed; the middle mentions a 'modo et governo' and 'the political government'. The clear tail announces the coming of Don Miguel de Salamanca. Archduke Leopold Wilhelm was named governor of the Spanish Netherlands at the end of 1646, which fits, but the text does not name him.
A mechanical decode with holes in most sentences: shown so that the transcription and the key can be checked and improved, not as a reading.
Transcription
# 24874 reconciled from pass 1 and pass 2 (6 Nov 2026), each disagreement settled on the image (3x segment zooms). # Tokens: SIGN_CONVENTIONS.md. '?' after a token = doubtful shape; [?] = sign not made out (L12, L15 ink blots; L17 stroke). # Disagreements settled: L01 r3c3GGt7 (pass 1 r3c3GG7r); L03 h7?G2 1G3t7 (pass 2 h4?21G3t7, unresolved: doubt kept); # L05 p5G and G3d3r43 (pass 1 fSGGf3r Gd3r43: the first sign is p with a looped descender, a 3 was missed); # L06 d1rlS p1rt3 mSnGt1m3 (pass 1 d5rlS f5rt3 mSnGl1m3: dotted minims, p not long s, t not l); # L07 begins nt3 (pass 1 n3?); L14 t3d51rl1 (dotted minim after 5, both passes). # Changed after the independent check (6 Nov 2026), where the first reconciled copy had written the sign the sense # needs where the passes and the blind check saw another sign: L09 l546?5 and p7l565c7 (pass 1 lS46S1S4S, p7lS6Sc7; pass 2 l54t5, # p7l565c7; the blind check also reads 6 in both words: a closed bowl with a rising stroke, as the 6 of L10 46p3r; # the first copy had t); L09 d1?l (pass 1 drl, pass 2 d1l: a short hooked minim without a clear dot); L12 # 1G3rt?5m3nl?5 (both passes l for the second t; the first copy had t?); L12 2ch403S4[?]n7 (an ink blot covers the # sign the first copy wrote as t). Reading 6 as t (politico) and l as t (avertimenti) is a repair, marked in the reading. L01 S7n7 dGbStr1t64 hG GrSt1r1 3c34?l3nz1 h1Gr1 r3c3GGt7 l1 mS1 L02 d3l4ul5? trS4d3c3S? 3t dSGGSl1 h1Gr1 SnlS3S? r3t1S L03 SG1 G1nt4l3z21 S3r7nSS2Sm2t1 h1 h7?G2 1G3t7 L04 Gr1n c7nS7l1zS7n43 d14hl1 dS l3S l3t3Gr1 L05 t1nt7 p5G p3r G3d3r43 l1ffr7nt3z1 Sn ch4r3 L06 S6S 3S4S6S04Sc3 dS d1rlS p1rt3 mSnGt1m3 L07 nt3 c7m3 46SS RSlt77G1n7 l1 p3c1 3SS L08 61St4GSSSSl m7d7 3t G7G3rn7 d3l1m5 L09 l546?5 1S45 c7m3 d1?l G47G3rn7 p7l565c7 L10 d3S4Sd3r41 dGnGG43 Gn1 G5GSt1 3t46 p3r L11 p3t1 R3l1t57n3 m3ntr3 l35 S1 m3Gl457 L12 GG3ulS 1G3rt?5m3nl?5 2ch403S4[?]n7 n3c3 L13 4S20S1rS2S dS GG3l7 S7 tr1l1Sc4S7 p3r L14 n47n t3d51rl1 1Sp7t1 dGnGG3 nd h l3 p1r L15 tS4[?]7l1rS2t1 2ch3 p1459S1r1n7 24fGu3 L16 p7rt1Gn3 p3r Sl G7G43rn7 S d34l 1rcSd L17 G4c1 mS7 SSG[?]n7r3 1S45cGr1nd7l1 c46h3 L18 7l4tr3 lG3tS4t3 c4h3 n3 c41G1r41 L19 h1Gr1 c7nS72l1t57n03 Snc7nG4S1r1 L20 2b5b3
Decryption
L01 Sono dGbStrat hG GrStara ecelenza haGra receGGto la mSa L02 delli trSdeceS et dSGGSla haGra SnlSeS retaS L03 SGa Gantleza SeronSSSmta ha hoG aGeto L04 Gran conSolazSone dahla dS leS leteGra L05 tanto piG per Gedere lassronteza Sn chre L06 SS eSSSSce dS darlS parte mSnGtame L07 nte come SS RSltooGano la peca eSS L08 aStGSSSSl modo et GoGerno delami L09 lii aSi come dal GoGerno poliico L10 deSSdera dGnGGe Gna GiGSta et per L11 peta Relatione mentre lei Sa meGlio L12 GGelS aGertimenli cheS?no nece L13 SSarSS dS GGelo So tralaScSo per L14 non tediarla aSpota dGnGGe nd h le par L15 tS?olarSta che paiuSarano sGe L16 portaGne per Sl GoGerno S del arcSd L17 Gca mSo SSG?nore aSicGrandola che L18 oltre lGetSte che ne caGara L19 haGra conSolatione SnconGSara L20 bibe
Reading
# 24874: reading (Italian) and translation
Image: Vlnas 2017, appendix zip P_lohy_A_a_B.zip (theses.cz/id/p3p2kb), frame 24874.jpg (original: SOA Zámrsk,
Rodinný archiv Piccolominiů, inv. 24874). The frame begins in mid-letter; 19 cipher lines,
then 4 clear lines. Key: `key_frozen.tsv` (Vlnas 2017, table 3). Status: **decoded, not read** (reading review, 6 Nov 2026: 2 of
6 cipher sentences read; the sentence check in Italian finds 1 of 8 cipher sentences clean).
Counts (`python scripts/check_marks.py`): 116 words; **76 decoded verbatim from the signs (65.5%; not a read share)**, of which 33 (28.4%)
need no s/i or g/q/u/v class choice and 29 (25.0%) contain no S, G or 5; 6 with a marked repair; 7 guessed from
context; 27 holes. Verbatim plus marked repairs: 82 (70.7%). 77 class signs are resolved by context in the read words.
## Marked reading (one unit per decrypted word; checked by `scripts/check_marks.py`)
Marks: `{a/b}` reads a where the signs give b; `{+a}` letter not given by any sign; `{-b}` sign value dropped;
`[...]` word not read; `[?word]` guess from context only. S (s or 5) and G (g, q or 9) are read as the sense needs;
that choice is counted separately and is not a repair. Words split over a line end are counted once per line.
<!-- marked -->
L01 Sono [...] [...] [...] Ecelenza havra recevuto la mia
L02 delli [?tredeci] et [...] havra [...] [...]
L03 Sua [...] [...] ha [...] [...]
L04 gran consolazione da{l/h}la di lei [?lettera]
L05 tanto piu per vedere [?la_prontezza] in [...]
L06 si esi{+b}isce di darli parte minutame
L07 nte come si [?ritrovano] la [...] [...]
L08 [...] modo et governo [...]
L09 [...] asi come dal governo poli{+t}ico
L10 desidera dunque una giusta et per
L11 [...] relatione mentre lei sa meglio
L12 queli avertimen{t/l}i [?che_siano] nece
L13 ssarii di quelo so tralascio per
L14 non tediarla [...] dunque [...] [...] le par
L15 ti{c/?}olarita che [...] [...]
L16 [...] per il governo [...] del arcid
L17 uca mio sig{-?}nore asicurandola che
L18 oltre [...] che ne cavara
L19 havra consolatione [...]
L20 [...]
<!-- /marked -->
Notes on the marks: L04 `da{l/h}la`: the sign is a looped ascender read as h, the sense needs l (dalla). L06
`esi{+b}isce`: a six stands where the sense needs b (esibisce); in this hand six and b are close and the six may be
meant as b. L09 `poli{+t}ico`: the same case; the sign is a six (both passes and the independent blind copy), the
sense needs t. L09 `dal`: the a rests on a doubtful sign (a short hooked minim without a clear dot, read r in pass 1);
it is counted as verbatim; if that sign is not 1, "dal" is a repair and the count is 75 of 116 (64.7%). L12
`avertimen{t/l}i`: the sign is a tall stroke without a cross-stroke, read l by both passes and the blind copy; this
hand's t and l differ only by the cross-stroke (as in 24876 `tu{t/l}ta`). L12 `[?che_siano]`: an ink blot covers one
sign. L15 `{c/?}`: an ink blot covers the sign. L17 `{-?}`: a stroke after g that is not a letter of the word.
## Text (Italian, spelling of the signs; accents added; holes kept)
[...] Sono [...] [...] [...] Ecelenza havrà recevuto la mia delli [?tredeci] et [...] havrà [...] [...]. Sua [...]
[...] ha [...] [...] gran consolazione dalla di lei [?lettera], tanto più per vedere [?la prontezza] in [...]. Si
esibisce di darli parte minutamente come si [?ritrovano] la [...] [...], [...] modo et governo [...] [...], a sì come
dal governo politico. Desidera dunque una giusta et per [...] relatione, mentre lei sa meglio queli avertimenti
[?che siano] necessarii. Di quelo so tralascio per non tediarla. [...] dunque [...] [...] le particolarità che [...]
[...] [...] per il governo [...] del arciduca mio signore, asicurandola che oltre [...] che ne cavarà, havrà
consolatione [...] [...].
Clear text that follows (read from the photograph, not part of the cipher count): "per le lettere che arrivano, si ha
aviso della venuta del S.r Don Michele di Salamanca, arrivando da [...] ... di [...] ... a V. E." (the last two clear
lines are faint and only partly legible on this photograph).
## English
[...] am [...] [...] [...] Your Excellency will have received my [letter] of the [?13th] and [...] will have [...]
[...]. His [...] [...] has [...] [...] great consolation from your [?letter], all the more to see [?the readiness] in
[...]. He offers to inform you in detail how the [...] stand [...], [...] manner and government [...] [...], and also
of the political government. He therefore wishes a just and [...] report, since you know better which advices are
needed. What I know I leave out so as not to weary you. [...] then [...] [...] the particulars that [...] [...] [...]
for the government [...] of the Archduke my lord, assuring you that besides [...] which he will gain from it, he
will have consolation [...] [...].
Clear text: "by the letters that arrive there is news of the coming of Señor Don Miguel de Salamanca, arriving from
[...] ..."Translation
# 24874: English translation of the cipher part (and the clear tail) From the marked reading in `reading_24874.md`; holes kept as there (`[...]` not read, `[?word]` a guess from context). Status: decoded, not read (draft translation as a reading aid). [...] am [...] [...] [...] Your Excellency will have received my [letter] of the [?13th] and [...] will have [...] [...]. His [...] [...] has [...] [...] great consolation from your [?letter], all the more to see [?the readiness] in [...]. He offers to inform you in detail how the [...] stand [...], [...] manner and government [...] [...], and also of the political government. He therefore wishes a just and [...] report, since you know better which advices are needed. What I know I leave out so as not to weary you. [...] then [...] [...] the particulars that [...] [...] [...] for the government [...] of the Archduke my lord, assuring you that besides [...] which he will gain from it, he will have consolation [...] [...]. Clear text: "by the letters that arrive there is news of the coming of Señor Don Miguel de Salamanca, arriving from [...] ..."
inv. 24876 (Vlnas 2017 appendix B22) decoded, not read
Two cipher passages between clear news (the letter is decoded, not read). Block A is fragments: Bavaria, 'so that we must fight', complaints already answered. Block B, with holes at its head: 'the Duke of Bavaria wants peace by all means, so that he [?can] consider the advantage we shall have'. The clear text reports prisoners' news of the enemy and, from Vienna, a journey to Linz and then Ratisbona. Fits Bavaria's moves toward a separate truce in late 1646 (Ulm, March 1647); context only.
A mechanical decode with holes in most sentences: shown so that the transcription and the key can be checked and improved, not as a reading.
Transcription
# 24876 reconciled (6 Nov 2026). Disagreements settled on the image: L01 b1G53r1 (pass 1 G55: the second sign has # the flat top and belly of a 3); L04 GS1 (pass 1 G51: the middle sign is the open s/5 shape, not a dotted minim); # L07 d5 (pass 1 dS: a clear five). In this hand the dotted minim (1) and a plain letter a are distinct shapes. # Changed after the independent check (6 Nov 2026): L02 d76?ubS1m7 (both passes d7buS1m7: one b/6-shaped sign was # missed; there is one before the u and one after it; the first may be a doubled b); L04 c7nep?7r02a43 (both passes # c7nep7r02n43: the sign after 02 is a closed loop like the a of S4aS, not an n; p or f not settled); L07 a?b1G453r1 # (a dark u/a loop between d5 and b that both passes missed). All three added signs are nulls under the key. L01 48ad52 b1G53r1 2un74n G7n6G7n7 m1S7r7 4dSnSS7 L02 l427 cwh3 S45 d76?ubS1m7 b1t24t3r3 34c L03 2l3t42r3 ru3 d5 l1m3nt21t57n5 t94l26t1 L04 GS1 S3 lSwrSSp47nad3 c7nep?7r02a43 Slb1S72G3 L05 n7 3t Sl d7G3r3 Snp47r7rt1 L06 46aeSnp1rlSc2 tl1r7cb7h3 S1l adaGu L07 4c1 d5 a?b1G453r1 G6G7Gl2aS1 SntGltatS L08 m[?]dS l1 p1c3 S4aS c2h3 pG7l4l 6a2ue L09 c7nS25d3r1r3 l124uG1nt1G2G57 cha L10 3n7Sh1Gr3m7
Decryption
L01 di baGiera non GonGono maSoro dSnSSo L02 lo che Si dobSamo battere ec L03 letre re di lamentationi tulta L04 GSa Se lSrSSponde conpore SlbaSoGe L05 no et Sl doGere Snpororta L06 SnparlSc tlarocbohe Sal dG L07 ca di baGiera GGoGlSa SntGlttS L08 m?dS la pace SS che pGoll - L09 conSiderare laGantaGGio ch L10 enoShaGremo
Reading
# 24876: reading (Italian) and translation
Image: Vlnas 2017, appendix zip P_lohy_A_a_B.zip (theses.cz/id/p3p2kb), frame 24876.jpg (original: SOA Zámrsk,
Rodinný archiv Piccolominiů, inv. 24876). Clear opening (9 lines), cipher block A (5 lines,
L01-L05 here), 2 clear lines, cipher block B (5 lines, L06-L10). Another hand than 24874, same system; this writer
also mixes plain vowel letters (a, e, u) and w among the signs, which are nulls (Vlnas table 3 treats them so).
Key: `key_frozen.tsv` (Vlnas 2017, table 3). Status: **decoded, not read** (reading review, 6 Nov 2026: 1 of
3 cipher sentences reads; the sentence check in Italian finds 0 of 3 cipher sentences clean).
Counts (`python scripts/check_marks.py`): 50 words; **32 decoded verbatim from the signs (64.0%; not a read share)**, of which 14 (28.0%) need
no s/i or g/q/u/v class choice and 10 (20.0%) contain no S, G or 5; 4 with a marked repair; 2 guessed from context;
12 holes. Verbatim plus marked repairs: 36 (72.0%). 29 class signs are resolved by context in the read words.
## Marked reading (conventions as in reading_24874.md)
<!-- marked -->
L01 di Baviera non [?vengono] [...] [...]
L02 lo che si dobiamo battere [...]
L03 [...] [...] di lamentationi tu{t/l}ta
L04 gia se li_risponde [...] [...]
L05 [...] et il dovere [...]
L06 [...] [...] [...] du
L07 ca di Baviera vuoglia in_tu{t/l}t{-t}i
L08 m{o/?}di la pace si che [?puol] -
L09 considerare l'avantaggio ch
L10 e_noi_havremo
<!-- /marked -->
Notes: L03 and L07 `tu{t/l}t`: this hand's t and l differ only by the cross-stroke, faint here. L08 `m{o/?}di`: a
blot after m. L08 `-`: a group of nulls only (6 a 2 u e) after a colon.
## Text (Italian; clear passages in plain type from the photograph, cipher in the marked spelling)
Clear opening (draft reading of the photograph): "Mi ritrovo senza i soliti favori di V. Ecc.za, sichè mi vedo con mia
gran mortificatione privo di suoi benigni comandi; spero però a suo tempo godrò di quello [...] quando V. Ecc.za
stimerà opportuno. Poco posso dirli con la presente, solo che li prigioni avisano l'inimico [...], sì che converrà
[...] [...] Baviera, [...] che di nuovo [...] pregiudichi all'armi questo Marchese(?) [...] in somma"
Cipher A: di Baviera non [?vengono] [...] [...] lo che si dobiamo battere [...] [...] [...] di lamentationi; tutta già
se li risponde [...] [...] [...] et il dovere [...].
Clear: "di Vienna si ha l'aviso come S. M. Ces.a(?) sij al primo del mese ventura per incaminarsi verso Linz, et poscia
a Ratisbona, per concludere [...] ma la più necessario, del resto molti vogliono dis(correre?) assai,"
Cipher B: [...] [...] [...] duca di Baviera vuoglia in tutti modi la pace, sì che [?puol] considerare l'avantaggio
che noi havremo
Clear: "a tutto ciò è necessario [...]"
## English (cipher passages)
A: "... of Bavaria [?do] not [?come] [...] [...], so that we must fight [...] [...] [...] of complaints; to all of it
an answer is already given to him [...] [...] [...] and the duty [...]."
B: "[...] [...] [...] [the] Duke of Bavaria wants peace by all means, so that [?he can] consider the advantage that we
shall have."Translation
# 24876: English translation of the cipher passages From the marked reading in `reading_24876.md`; holes kept as there (`[...]` not read, `[?word]` a guess from context). Status: decoded, not read (draft translation as a reading aid). A: "... of Bavaria [?do] not [?come] [...] [...], so that we must fight [...] [...] [...] of complaints; to all of it an answer is already given to him [...] [...] [...] and the duty [...]." B: "[...] [...] [...] [the] Duke of Bavaria wants peace by all means, so that [?he can] consider the advantage that we shall have."
inv. 24873_2, cipher postscript (excerpt; letter of the key source) decoded, not read
An excerpt of 14 groups of the postscript, which Vlnas did not print: 'desidera Sua Altezza [il] ragguaglio ... sono come ancora lei ... che venendo ... se ne possa governare'.
A mechanical decode with holes in most sentences: shown so that the transcription and the key can be checked and improved, not as a reading.
Transcription
heldout_24873_2_transcription.txt
# Held-out excerpt, 6 Nov 2026: sign groups of the cipher postscript on frame 24873_2 (not deciphered or printed by
# Vlnas, whose ch. 4.2 covers only the cipher lines of frame 24873). Transcribed from a 1.7x crop before the key was
# applied to it (file time 15:15, after the key file of 15:12; the order rests on file times only). The solver chose
# the groups ("only groups whose signs are clear on the photograph") and scored them; this is an excerpt, not the
# full postscript, and not a blind test. [...] marks signs left out inside or at the end of a line, as found by the
# independent check (VERIFY.md section 2): in L01 the first gap holds w6Sl (= il) and the line goes on after the
# last group; L03 has about 20 signs before c4h3 (among them m3?GG24lS7 = meglio). Where the rest of L02 and L04 lies
# was not recorded; read both as excerpts of their lines. Lnn = line of the postscript as far as the excerpt shows.
L01 d3SS2d3r1 SG1 1lt3z4 [...] r1G22GG12GlS7 [...]
L02 S7n7 c7m3 1nc7r1 l35
L03 [...] c4h3 G3n3nd7
L04 S3 n3 p7S24 G7G3rn1r3Decryption
heldout_24873_2_decryption.txt
L01 deSSdera SGa altez [...] raGGGaGlSo [...] L02 Sono come ancora lei L03 [...] che Genendo L04 Se ne poS GoGernare
Key: key.tsv
05 Sources
- V. Vlnas, Počítačová analýza šifrované korespondence rodu Piccolomini, BA thesis, Univerzita Hradec Králové 2017 (theses.cz/id/p3p2kb): ch. 4.2, table 3 (the key) and appendix B21, B22 (the images). No images or copy of the thesis are in this repository.
- SOA Zamrsk, Rodinný archiv Piccolominů, inv. 24873–24876.
- Transcriptions, decodes, readings and the independent check: targets/piccolomini1646, by WAINUT.
Notes, transcriptions, the key, decryptions, readings and the independent check are in targets/piccolomini1646.
Cite this page
WAINUT and Daniel Bourdeau, “Two Italian cipher letters to Ottavio Piccolomini, c. 1646”, Cyphersolver, posted 6 November 2026, https://cyphersolver.com/piccolomini1646.html.