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  Bluetoes101 > Yesterday, 11:34 PM

  Credit to original poster on reddit - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
  
  I'm not sure if this has been posted here before (can't find if so).
  Some info below, if you would like anything further it will (hopefully) be contained within the links.
  
  Collection of encrypted correspondence - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
  Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
  
  Summary
  Collection of encrypted correspondence between the compiler and various correspondents, in approximately 150 alphabets, accompanied by transcriptions of the letters in Arabic. The compiler cites Shihāb al-Dīn al-Jindī al-ʻAlāʼī, Burhān al-Dīn al-Qudsī, and Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar al-Ḥusaynī as authorities for some of the alphabets. The manuscript is incomplete, lacking its beginning and end. Occasional marginal notes. Some worm damage in margins.
  
  Publisher
  University of Pennsylvania
  
  Language
  Arabic
  
  Origin
  Possibly written in Syria, in the 15th century.
  
  
  Script
  Written in naskh script.
  
  
  
  LJS 51
  About the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
  In 2011, University of Pennsylvania Libraries Board members Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Schoenberg donated their manuscript collection of nearly 300 manuscripts and documents to the Penn Libraries, half of which are from medieval and Renaissance Europe. With its emphasis on the history of science and the transmission of knowledge across time and geography, the Schoenberg Collection brings together many of the great scientific and philosophical traditions of the ancient and medieval worlds. Documenting the extraordinary achievements of scholars, philosophers, and scientists active in pre-modern Europe, Africa, and Asia, the collection illuminates the foundations of our shared intellectual heritage.
  
  
  Here are some glyph comparisons which I find interesting to one extent or another, I like EVA: "t" and "qo" most.
  I have left out "extended EVA" and other odd glyphs other than the first page weirdo, there's probably more good comparisons others can find.
  
  I went to around 38v, plus some near the end. There's a lot of pages in between. 
  
  

• RE: LJS 51 Collection of alphabets and encoded correspondence

  MarcoP > Today, 08:12 AM

  There’s also an 8-like character in what I guess is the first page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
     
  
     
  If the red annotations added above the first characters are correct, this appears to be a simple substitution (with word spaces removed).
  
  More red annotations on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..  There’s a character that looks like | with three dots above it that has no plain-text equivalent. So it could be a null or (much more interestingly) a word separator.
     

• RE: LJS 51 Collection of alphabets and encoded correspondence

  Bluetoes101 > 3 hours ago

  That clover shape does seem fairly consistent throughout while the cipher glyphs tend to change page to page, in all the pages with red annotations I saw it is left blank. 
  
  Not sure if anyone on here is able to read any of the plain text?
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