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evidently the Vatican still thought they owned it in 1962. Kraus asked the librarian to go get it, came back empty.

You bring up a good point, Linda. The Vatican thought they had taken possession of it, but there's no evidence that they actually acquired it, at least not so far.

ReneZ has done a good job of documenting the manuscript's provenance. On his site, he records that a few weeks after being at the Vatican Library, in the 1960s, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that he "found out that the Cipher Manuscript comes from the library of the Collegium Romanum" (the Jesuit library). He further says that on page vii of the Ruysschaert inventory, "it is mentioned that the Cipher manuscript, together with others, was sold by the Jesuits to Voynich."



I suppose one could propose that maybe it was in the Vatican Library before it came to the Jesuits, but the evidence points to Kircher (who administrated books and scientific antiquities in the Jesuit Library) receiving it through scholarly contacts in central and eastern Europe, not through the Vatican. The documents collected so far appear to support this.