# Inspector task sheet

The Voynich manuscript: a provenance and decipherment audit

## 1. Build a folio register

Record recto/verso, foldout subdivisions, missing leaves and scan identifiers. Never equate viewer image order with manuscript foliation without checking.

Status: proposed; not completed.
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## 2. Audit one claimed decipherment

Write down every substitution rule, exception and selected example. Test the unchanged method on a different section and preserve failed readings.

Status: proposed; not completed.
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## 3. Separate catalogue versions

Make a dated comparison of ownership and dating claims. Use the newer institutional account to flag older speculation rather than silently erasing the discrepancy.

Status: proposed; not completed.
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