P. Gasparis Schotti e Societate Jesu, Schola steganographica. In classes octo distributa, quibus, præter alia multa, ac jucundissima, explicantur artificia nova, queis quilibet, scribendo epistolam qualibet de re, & quocunque idiomate, potest alteri absenti, eorundem artificiorum conscio, arcanum animi sui conceptum, sine ulla secreti latentis suspicione manifestare; & scriptam ab aliis eâdem arte, quacunque linguâ, intelligere, & interpretari ... Cum figuris æri incisis, & privilegio / [Gaspar Schott].

Schola steganographica. Latin

[Nuremberg] : Sumptibus Johannis Andreae Endteri, & Wolfgangi Junioris Hæred : Excudebat Jobus Hertz, typographus Herbipol : Prostant Norimbergæ apud dictos Endteros, Anno M.DC.LXXX. [1680]

36 unnumbered pages, 346 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered folded leaves of engr. plates (some folded) : add. engr. title page, title page in red & black, woodcuts, illustrations (copper engravings), 1 coat of arms music (copper engraving), music, fldg. table ; (4to )

Gallard, J.S. Bib. of lit. of cryptology p. 163, note

BM v. 216, column 31

BN v. 167, column 406

Grässe VI, pt. 1, p. 315

Added engraved t.p. reads: Schola steganographica P. Gaspar: Schotti Soc: Iesu. Combinatio tabellarum steganographicarum. Sumptibus Iohannis Andreæ Endteri, et Wolffgangi Iunioris Hæred: Anno M.DC.LXV

Half title: P. Gasparis Schotti Societatis Jesu, Schola steganographica

The third publisher statement follows the date of publication

Signatures: )(-4)(⁴ 5)(² A-2X⁴ (-2X4?) 2Y² [chi]? The last printed leaf, "Ad bibliopegum", instructions to the binder, and blank verso (p. [355]-[356], is generally regarded as part of the book as issued

"Ad Serenissimum S.R.I. Principem Ferdinandum Maximilianum Marchionem Badensem"--T.p., with his coat-of-arms on t.p. verso, followed by Schott's "Dedicatio"

Includes index

Contains musical cyphers (p. 323-326)

Classis 1., in qua explicatur inventum Joannis Trithemii -- classis 2., in qua explicatur artificium primum Athanasii Kircheri -- classis 3., in qua explicatur artificium secundum Athanasii Kircheri -- classis 4., in qua explicatur artificium facile et universale -- classis 5., in qua explicatur steganographia brevis, facilis, universalis -- classis 6., in qua explicatur steganographia per paucas ac perbreves tabellulaq -- classis 7., in qua explicantur varia erotemata steganographica, præsertim quæ Joannis Trithemii Steganographiam ac polygraphiam concernunt -- classis 8., in qua explicantur varia artificia tam ad steganographiam, quàm ad steganologiam spectantia -- Catalogus librorum à P. Gasparo Schotto ... hactenus editorum (recto of last leaf)