Ciphers. Codes.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Codes used specifically to disguise the content of a message, involving a rule defined by a secret key known only to the transmitters and legitimate receivers of the message. (AAT) Use for all documents in, or including, cipher, and also for cipher keys. Where a cipher key is present record the fact in the catalogue record. (NLS) .
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.
File
Identifier: MS.6135
Scope and Contents
The items are also closely associated with William Maitland of Lethington, and are chiefly concerned with the diplomatic negotiations of the period with England and France; they are apparently unpublished. Where no exact date is given on the document, the letters have been dated from internal evidence.The contents are as follows.(i) Copy letter, [end of February 1563], of William Maitland of Lethington to François, Duc de Guise, reporting the course of his...
Dates:
[1562]-1563, [1568].
Manuscript of an incomplete copy of 'De Actibus Apostolorum' by Arator.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.19
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in England containing an incomplete copy of Arator's 'De Actibus Apostolorum'. The manuscript was probably written at the end of the 12th century, and has been dated as such by Ker and Watson. The work has also been dated to the 13th century by Borland and McKinlay. The work is written in a gothic script with between 27-34 lines to a page. The manuscript is the work of several contemporary hands. McKinley has identified four different hands present...
Dates:
Late 12th century.
Unidentified text, apparently 18th century, written in cipher.
File
Identifier: MS.20769
Scope and Contents
The cipher alphabet included Roman and Greek letters, astrological symbols, and other apparently invented symbols. The text appears to be divided into sections by horizontal lines. The name Baptiste Romin or Romain is added in pencil on folios 27 and 28 (inverted). Loosely enclosed is a fragment of a copy by Robert Mylne of Sir Thomas Urquhart's ‘Παντοχεονοχανον’ (London, 1652). This bifolium, paginated 33-36, contains numbers 98-113 of the 'genealogy' of the Urquharts.
Dates:
1652, 18th century.