transcribing what an old man told me about the 'devil's book' at Yale (Voynich, secondhand)

This is secondhand so take it as that. Years back I got talking to a retired conservator at a library event and he'd handled the Voynich Manuscript — Beinecke MS 408 at Yale, in New Haven, Connecticut. The famous one: ~240 vellum pages, unknown alphabet, drawings of plants that match no real plant, ……