Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (institutional record)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, cited here as an institutional record, is Yale University's own account of the library's 1963 founding and its 1969 acquisition of the Voynich Manuscript, the undeciphered illustrated codex. The Beinecke is one of the world's major rare book repositories with professional archival standards, so its founding date, governance and acquisition record are reliable institutional facts. Its limit is that it holds and describes the manuscript without claiming to have deciphered or dated its content beyond standard material analysis; the manuscript's own text, language and purpose remain genuinely unresolved. Cite it for custody and acquisition history; the decipherment question needs dedicated specialist scholarship.