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Book Two |
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Chapter IX.
On
Artificial Transference or Strewing of Letters, or
Transference by the Mediation of a Table.
We
come now to Scattering according to the arrangement of a Table
constructed with skill. This Scattering I have distinguished from the former
kind, which is accomplished by the mediation of an applied key. For although a
table, or an external instrument used at times instead of a table, might seem to
be a key, still that there is between the two a real distinction is shown by the
following considerations: a key consisting of words or letters depends rather on
each worker’s individual choice, while a table depends on the arrangement of
skilled artists; again, keys are sometimes used in conjunction with tables, as
will be seen again and again in the following Books. Now the kind of Scattering
that comes up for consideration in this chapter may be learned from the
following table, as follows. (This table was prepared by Jacobus de
Silvestria, a Florentine, and I have
introduced it here, taking it from his Italian-Latin treatise, printed by
permission at Rome in the year 1526 under Pope Clement VII. and
entitled Opus Novum.)
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