Cipher Challenge
Arthur Dee's Alchemical Cipher
Arthur Dee concealed a passage in his alchemical manuscript *Hermeticae Philosophiae medulla*, now British Library Sloane MS 1902. This is the complete text-native transcription studied and deciphered by modern researchers. HistoCrypt transcription and cryptanalysis, CC BY 4.0
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Ciphertext
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