Allgemeine Charactere nach Marshall und Becher

 [1677 bis 1679 (?)]

That a person of parts, educated only to read and write the Language of the Nation wherein he was born, may in an hours time be taught to set down any matter, secret or other, in another language as Latine, Greek, French etc. and the Latine or other Language to be true and the sense good and continued. ... it may be done many several wayes. ... I have seen the whole Model and Systeme of it in several Languages besides our own, and but that it would make my letter of too great a Bulk should here with have sent you a transcript of one of them.

William Marshall Dr. of Physick in London in the first answer of his book intituled: Answers upon several heads in philosophy, London 1670. 8^o. pag. 14. Habeo librum.

Putem huic scopo inservire etiam posse Becheri Characterem universalem, in quo promittit unius diei informatione ita scribere aliquem docere, ut ab unoquoque in sua lingua intelligatur; adhibitis scilicet Lexicis qui numeros (pro characteribus universalibus hic sumtos) in quaque lingua interpretantur. Eadem autem opera praestare potuisset, quod erat adhuc mirabilius, ut quis posset in qualibet ipsa lingua ignota scribere; modo Lexicon quale opus est, cum paucis quibusdam praeceptis necessariis dentur. Quae ut dixi intra diei spatium disci possunt.