07-03-2016, 06:41 PM
(07-03-2016, 01:41 PM)Davidsch wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
If there are ms of such please let me know asap. As much as possible text would be very nice. As old as possible.
This is an aside, and not specifically what you are looking for (it's a one-way anagram approached as a game rather than as a cipher), but I mention it as a point of interest...
One of the most famous anagrams is the "long word" anagram, which involved anagrams created from a very long Latin word that has existed at least since the 9th century.
Honorificabilitudinitatibus
I hope I spelled that right. The challenge was to turn it into proper Latin text (you can add spaces). Those anagramming it have been able to create more than 3,000 pieces of homily, history, and verse using this limited set of letters—and that's just in Latin. Obviously, it could be used to create words in other languages, as well.
What this demonstrates as far as ciphers go, is 1) that anagrams were definitely used by and of interest to people in the middle ages and 2) almost any chunk of text, if anagrammed without any specific rules as to letter order or spaces, can potentially generate a very large number of interpretations that are valid, even if they are completely wrong in relation to an actual ciphered document.