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English: Diagram for a variable music cipher device, from anonymous 18th-century manuscript, Port-Lesney, France. Cited in Chailley, Jacques. 1981. "Anagrammes Musicales Et "langages Communicables"." Revue De Musicologie 67, no. 1: 69-80.
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Source Anonymous manuscript, Port-Lesney, France, ca.1750
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Music Cipher Wheel from anonymous 18th-century manuscript, Port-Lesney, France

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