manuscript

Yale School of Music Asst. Prof. Stephen Gorbos used the Voynich Cipher Manuscript, held at the Beinecke, to inspire the text and music of an original piece. "Such Sphinxes as These Obey No One but Their Master" was performed on the Library's mezzanine to a capacity crowd.

The Beinecke Library has a beautifully illuminated fourteenth-century copy of the Vaticinia de summis pontificibus, a text that purports to foretell future popes and prophecies relating to them.