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Edgar Walthert, Partial map Lingua Ignota (back), Offset print, 594 mm x 840 mm, 2022.
Edgar Walthert, Partial map Lingua Ignota, Offset print, 594 mm x 840 mm [folded to 120 x 210 mm], 2022.
Edgar Walthert, Partial map Lingua Ignota (front), Offset print, 594 mm x 840 mm, 2022.

In the 12th century, a German Benedictine abbess of Rupertsberg, St. Hildegard von Bingen, invented a vocabulary called Lingua Ignota translated from Latin as 'unknown language'. One of the earliest invented languages, Lingua Ignota’s purpose was unclear, but speculations include a secret cipher and a universal language. Whereas the purpose of the invented language remains unclear, type- and graphic designer Edgar Walthert created a contemporary revival of Lingua Ignota: reinventing the secret cipher in a sans-serif typeface.

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