[split] Diplomatic ciphers

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In the diplomatic ciphers one is dealing with for example an individual character $ corresponds to a letter B or an individual character % corresponds to a null.

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Are you referring to the Italian diplomatic ciphers recorded by Tranchedino? It's not always individual character > single letter.

Sometimes there is more than one character/glyph used to represent an individual letter of the alphabet. Multiple characters are sometimes used for nulls, as well. In fact, glancing through the ciphers, sometimes three characters are used for a null.


Here are examples of multi-character letters from three different ciphers:

Cipher 1: v is enciphered as ee
Cipher 2: c is enciphered as ce   d is enciphered as fa   a is enciphered as bz
Cipher 3: several letters are enciphered as two-character Latin abbreviations



Here are examples of multi-character nulls from three of the ciphers:

Cipher nulls: la   con   no    qu°modo
Cipher nulls: to, co, tz, om, am (there are also some single nulls and abbreviation-symbol nulls)
Cipher nulls: bbz   dd   do  no   vo  ot  ee  hh  cb  cd  ef  eg  ey (plus a couple of abbreviations)