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Inspect identified repository images of Yale's Voynich manuscript and a Met tarocchi print. Catalogue descriptions, image scope and rights remain explicit; full objects open at their holding institutions.

Voynich manuscript, MS 408; repository image described below

Repository overview illustration: a cropped spread, not a complete folio facsimile. Open Yale's catalogue to inspect the full manuscript.

Voynich manuscript

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale · MS 408 · 15th century (material dating)

An undeciphered illustrated manuscript. Yale describes six broad illustrated sections; the drawings do not establish a translation, plant identification or usable magical recipe.

Image rights: Repository terms. Underlying historical manuscript; digitized overview image served by Yale. Scan reuse rights have not been independently established; repository terms apply.

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Source correction: earlier illustrative stock photographs and unverified object annotations have been removed. This bench identifies exactly what each displayed image represents. Open the repository for the full object; inferred transcriptions are not supplied.