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Cryptanalysis | Calling all historians of cryptography and stenography, Sherlockians (see “The Dancing Men”), and other amateur detectives! Identify and translate a mystery script and win $1,000.  The collection of Homer editions in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago – the  Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana (BHL) – includes a copy of the rare 1504 edition of Homer’s Odyssey that contains, in Book 11 (narrating Odysseus’s journey into Hades) handwritten annotations in a strange and as-yet unidentified script.  This marginalia appears only in the pages of Book 11 of the Odyssey; nowhere else in the volume.  Although the donor of the BHL is suspicious that this odd script is a form of 19th-century shorthand (likely French), he acknowledges that this hypothesis remains unsupported by any evidence offered to date.

The donor of the BHL is offering a prize of $1,000 to the first person who identifies the script, provides evidence to support the conclusion, and executes a translation of selected portions of the mysterious marginalia. More  Update 2014-04-29 The Library have announced receipt of an apparently successful solution but no details  More will be posted as information is made available.. Update 2014-05-05 "Daniele Metilli, an Italian computer engineer and software developer, is the prize winner of a contest to identify the script used for handwritten annotations in a rare 1504 Venice edition of Homer’s Odyssey in Greek, ...Working with Giula Accetta, a colleague who is proficient in contemporary Italian stenography and fluent in French, Mr. Metilli identified the mystery script correctly as the system of tachygraphy invented by Jean Coulon de Thévénot in the late 18th century. ... After rejecting several 19th-century French stenographic systems, they found a chart comparing one of them to the “tachygraphie” system invented by Jean Coulon de Thévenot (1754-1813) and published in Méthode tachygraphique, ou l’art d’écrire aussi vite que la parole (1789). They found an 1819 edition revised by a professor of stenography, N. Patey, online and, armed with two contemporary French translations of the Odyssey – one published in 1842, the other in 1854-66—began their work.  ..." more, with images  Homer. Odysseia. Venice: Aldus, 1504.  University of Chicago Library's copy forms part of the Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana. Gift of M. C. Lang. It has the bookplates of Cortland Bishop. Marginalia in vol. 2 is extensive, in several hands and in several languages, including one unknown language.