Chronograms: 5000 And More In Number, Excerpted Out Of Various Authors And Collected At Many Places

Dates disguised as language. Words that hide whole years. James Hilton's Chronograms is a Latin chronogram anthology compiled from varied authors and scattered sources; the title's scale and variety make it a rare literary collection of cryptic date inscriptions and palindromic inscriptions. Every entry is a deliberately playful bit of renaissance epigraphy - letters chosen as much for wit as for record - so the book reads as both a museum of mnemonic devices and a handbook of historical wo...