Alchemical Symbolism in the VMS

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In Post #373, this reference : Liber hermetis de blchkmkb (alchimia)

It is interesting to note the method of 'encryption' used at that time. It is just a partial cypher, moving only the vowels by plus one letter. (a > b and i/j > k) Fairly effective considering the simplicity. What if consonants were also moved by a different value?

Well, it's a gimmick, not a full alphabet substitution cipher. With consonant substitution it would be a full alphabet substitution cipher.

I wonder why they did it. It's found in the title of the two manuscripts BL Arundel 164 and BNF Latin 6514 that have the longer version starting with "Quoniam de opere", including the Emerald Table text.

   
The decorated capitals are more difficult to read that the cipher.

Study in: The Emerald Table - Robert Steele, Dorothea Waley Singer
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The other "fun" medieval cipher is when they replaced vowels with small dots.

Very few alchemy texts were even partially ciphered: the full alphabet substitution ciphers presented by bi3mw in post #372 is the exception, not the rule.