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  • A comparison chart of various ciphers for encoding messages. Engraving by Suffield, 1807.
  • A flowering plant (Loranthus bicolor) and two ciphers of the artist, Melchior Lorch. Etching by J. Pass, c. 1814.
  • A bird forming a tughra (cipher). Woodcut by an Indian artist.
  • A camel forming a tughra (cipher). Woodcut by an Indian artist.
  • A peacock forming a tughra (cipher). Woodcut by an Indian artist, late 1800s.
  • A vase forming a cipher (tughra) in Arabic (Urdu) script. Woodcut with colour by an Indian artist.
  • Thesaurus thesaurorum
  • Thesaurus thesaurorum
  • Thesaurus thesaurorum
  • Thesaurus thesaurorum