A case for Gibberish

[geoffreycaveney]

I've posted examples of labels that have been distilled down to three characters.
I've posted examples of labels that have been broken into small pieces that cross across illustrations.
I've posted examples on my blog of hot/cold wet/dry distilled down to 2 characters.
And way back somewhere on the forum I posted a link to a manuscript that has all the good days bad days info.
I've also made numerous references to Llullian-style diagrams where there are cryptic-seeming short labels (they are mnemonics), but if you know what the diagram is about, you can interpret them.
I've also made references to Greek labels that consist of two characters throughout the book.
I've posted examples on my blog of cryptic-looking but very logical two- and three-character indexing systems.

Your comments about 2-character and 3-character systems remind me of another cipher, the so-called You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. used by the German Army in World War I. While the complete encryption method with the columnar transposition step would be anachronistic to the 15th century, the simple first step of writing 25 letters in a 5x5 grid and converting each letter into its 2-letter "ADFGX coordinates" would have been well within the imagination of a creative 15th century author. "FAXDF ADDDG DGFFF AFAX AFAFX" doesn't look at first glance like it could represent meaningful natural language text, but it can and it did.