Calling anyone interest in solving a cipher?

[Crow]

Hello All

Old Crow has below zero cryptography skills.

I have a document all I know its mid 17th century. written in old english. Every one opinions are welcome.

Have fun.....



Crow

 

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[robertk]

I'd have to work at it just to figure out the script at the top that isn't in code.

 

[Red-Coat]

Interesting document.

From a combination of Optical Character Recognition and Google translate, I get this for the top section of script:

From the same book Ms. De forms Bis [This?] Table no3 Standards Son Undornets Surveys bem nóo are dερους touk of Surrackers to write im Bat Manor Hor ang man Ball Trade; but by The Table-feloving [following?]

OCR doesn’t always get it right of course, but maybe that’s a starting point for determining it to be some kind of table of standards for something.

 

[Red-Coat]

The bottom section looks to be some kind of variation on 'Pigpen' cipher, used by Freemasons and others for secure correspondence. The standard alphabet was replaced by symbols on a letter-by-letter basis, like this:

That was the standard letter substitution (which doesn't match your text) but there were many variations using similar types of symbols.