Editing Gematria (section)

===Latin===
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[[File:Agrippa cipher.jpg|thumb|alt=Shows a picture of a cipher with the English alphabet, missing the J, U, and W, but with 4 extra letters after the Z which appear as I, V, HI and HV.|The Agrippa Cipher, pg. 143 of ''De Occulta Philosophia'' 1533]]
[[File:Cabalistic-Gematria.png|thumb|right|alt=Shows the alphabet, missing the letters J and U, numbered from 1 to 24|Final page of Johann Henning's ''Cabbalologia'', 1683, showing a natural-order number alphabet]]

During the [[Renaissance]], systems of gematria were devised for the [[Classical Latin alphabet]]. There were a number of variations of these which were popular in Europe.<ref name=Tatlow>Tatlow, Ruth. ''Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet''. Cambridge University Press, 1991. pg. 130-133. {{ISBN|0-521-36191-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ramsey |first1=David |title=Bach and Numerology: "Dry Mathematical Stuff"? |journal=Literature and Aesthetics |date=1997 |volume=7 |pages=157–161 |url=https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/LA/article/view/5266/5972 |access-date=5 June 2023}}</ref>

In 1525, [[Christoph Rudolff]] included a Classical Latin gematria in his work ''Nimble and beautiful calculation via the artful rules of algebra [which] are so commonly called "coss"'':

 A=1  B=2  C=3  D=4  E=5  F=6  G=7  H=8  I=9  K=10  L=11  M=12<br />
 N=13 O=14 P=15 Q=16 R=17 S=18 T=19 U=20 W=21 X=22  Y=23  Z=24<ref name=Tatlow/>

At the beginning of the ''Apocalypisis in Apocalypsin'' (1532), the German monk [[Michael Stifel]] (also known as Steifel) describes the natural order and trigonal number alphabets, claiming to have invented the latter. He used the trigonal alphabet to interpret the prophecy in the Biblical Book of Revelation, and predicted the world would end at 8am on October 19, 1533. The official Lutheran reaction to Steifel's prophecy shows that this type of activity was not welcome. Belief in the power of numbers was unacceptable in reformed circles, and gematria was not part of the reformation agenda.<ref name=Tatlow/>{{rp|44, 60}}<ref name=Dudley>Dudley, Underwood. ''Numerology, Or, What Pythagoras Wrought''. Cambridge University Press, 1997. {{ISBN|0-88385-524-0}}</ref>

An analogue of the Greek system of isopsephy using the Latin alphabet appeared in 1583, in the works of the French poet [[Étienne Tabourot]]. This cipher and variations of it were published or referred to in the major work of Italian [[Pietro Bongo]] ''Numerorum Mysteria,'' and a 1651 work by [[Georg Philipp Harsdörffer]], and by [[Athanasius Kircher]] in 1665, and in a 1683 volume of ''Cabbalologia'' by Johann Henning, where it was simply referred to as the ''1683 alphabet''.  It was mentioned in the work of {{interlanguage link|Johann Christoph Männling|de}}  ''The European Helicon or Muse Mountain'', in 1704, and it was  also called the ''Alphabetum Cabbalisticum Vulgare'' in ''Die verliebte und galante Welt'' by [[Christian Friedrich Hunold]] in 1707. It was used by [[Leo Tolstoy]] in his 1865 work ''[[War and Peace]]'' to identify [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] with the [[Number of the beast|number of the Beast]].<ref name=Tatlow/><ref name=Dudley/>