gesta imperatorum, regum, principum, episcoporum, abbatum, et illustrium virorum, Latin for "The Annals of Hirsau...including the history of France and Germany, the exploits of the emperors, kings, princes, bishops, abbots, and illustrious men". Hirsau was a monastery near Württemberg, whose abbot commissioned the work in 1495, but it took Trithemius until 1514 to finish the two-volume, 1,400-page work. It was first printed in 1690. Some consider this work to be one of the first humanist history books. Compendium sive breviarium primi voluminis chronicarum sive annalium de origine regum et gentis Francorum, c. 1514 De origine gentis Francorum compendium, 1514 - An abridged history of the Franks / Johannes Trithemius; AQ-Verlag, Dudweiler 1987; (Latin/English) Liber octo quaestionum, 1515 Compilations Marquard Freher, Opera historica, Minerva, Frankfurt/Main, 1966 Johannes Busaeus, Opera pia et spiritualia (1604 and 1605) Johannes Busaeus, Paralipomena opuscolorum (1605 and 1624) See also Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Humanism in Germany Minuscule 96 – written by the hand of Trithemius Tabula recta Trithemius cipher Theban alphabet Notes References Brann, N. L. (1981). The Abbot Trithemius, Leiden: Brill Kahn, David (1967). The Codebreakers: the Story of Secret Writing, 1967, 2nd edition 1996, pp. 130–137 Kuhn, Rudolf (1968). Großer Führer durch Würzburgs Dom und Neumünster: mit Neumünster-Kreuzgang und Walthergrab, p. 108 Christel Steffen (1969). "Untersuchungen zum "Liber de scriptoribus ecclesiasticis" des Johannes Trithemius", Aus: Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens Bd 10, Lfg 4 - 5 [1969] 1247 - 1354. External links Steganographia (Latin). Digital Edition, 1997 Steganographia (Latin). Google Books, 1608 edition Steganographia (Latin). Google Books, 1621 edition Solved: The Ciphers in Book iii of Trithemius's Steganographia, PDF, 208 kB Hill Monastic Manuscript Library article on Trithemius (includes links to photographs of various Trithemius first editions.) The complete and solved Steganography books Polygraphiae libri sex Ioannis Trithemij From George Fabyan Collection at the Library of Congress Steganographia qvæ hvcvsqve a nemine intellecta From George Fabyan Collection at the Library of Congress Trithemius Redivivus Translations and resources pertaining to the Steganographia of Johannes Trithemius Latin works in the Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Texts De septem secundeis in German translation (Über die sieben Erzengel, die nach dem Willen Gottes die Planeten bewegen und die Geschicke der Welt lenken) Johannes Trithemius Gemeinde Trittenheim 1462 births 1516 deaths People from Bernkastel-Wittlich 15th-century German writers 16th-century German writers 16th-century German male writers 16th-century Latin-language writers German Benedictines German occult writers Medieval German astrologers German Renaissance