Raymond Clemens, curator at the Beinecke library, said Yale decided to have facsimiles done because of the many people who want to consult the fragile manuscript. Nearly 300 people have already put in pre-orders. The publishing house plans to sell the facsimiles for €7,000 to €8,000 (£6,000 to £6,900) apiece. The company always publishes 898 replicas of each work it clones – a number which is a palindrome – after the success of its first facsimile of which they made 696 copies. Siloe, which specialises in making facsimiles of old manuscripts, has bought the rights to make 898 exact replicas of the Voynich – so faithful that every stain, hole, sewn-up tear in the parchment will be reproduced. Photograph: Universal History Archive via Getty Images Images and text from the Voynich manuscript.
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