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Esoteric Scripts and Forgotten Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Occult manuscripts encoded in esoteric Renaissance or medieval script
  • 2. Shorthand signs from antiquity once prized in Renaissance cryptic manuscripts
  • 3. Script revival coined under Charlemagne’s reign, antecedent to Renaissance humanism
  • 4. Philosophical tongue blending mysticism and Latin, lost after Renaissance flourish
  • 6. Alchemical language veiling Renaissance knowledge in mythic Egyptian guise
  • 12. Latin term for the building blocks of forgotten Renaissance linguistic systems
  • 13. Scripts shaped like ancient stones, obsolete by Renaissance revivalists
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  • 5. Study essential for deciphering faded Renaissance scripts and marginalia
  • 7. One skilled in decoding Renaissance ciphers, master of disguised tongue
  • 8. Medieval academic jargon, largely abandoned post-Renaissance humanism
  • 9. Pertaining to Renaissance letters often written in Latin’s lost dialects
  • 10. Obscure Slavic alphabet predating Cyrillic with cryptic ecclesiastical roots
  • 11. Describing language spanning multiple ages, often lost in Renaissance texts
  • 14. Fanciful codified language thought to appear in Renaissance mystical circles
  • 15. Pertaining to seals used to secure Renaissance documents in secret scripts
  • 16. Manuscript form harboring many extinct Renaissance dialects and glyphs

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