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[Koen G]

I don't know what Yale's reasons are. In general though, it is not necessarily the task of a library to fund and organize investigation into its holdings. By having digitizer the MS, allowed for the Siloe facsimiles and so on, they did enormously boost its exposure. Now anyone interested can see it.

One possible reason, though again I cannot speak for the Beinecke, is that the world's most mysterious manuscript will lose its appeal once it is solved. I guarantee that the public interest in the MS will fade away once it is known what it's about. The truth will be much less exciting than everything people can project upon it right now.