Note 12 — THE LIFE OF COLUMBUS.
Reading edition
.s. .s. s .s. X M Y Xpo FERENS.
Columbus' Cipher.—The interpretation of the seven-lettered cipher, accepting the smaller letters of the second line as the final ones of the words, seems to be Servate-me, Xristus, Maria, Yosephus. The name Christopher appears in the last line.