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When citing or building upon this work, please attribute as follows:

    Hearl, T. S. (2026). A Locked Decoder for Beinecke MS 408:
    Statistical Evidence for Hebrew Encoding Under a Domain-Transparent
    Substitution Cipher. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.XXXXXXX

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This work is offered as a Global Public Good. The cipher rules, decoder
script, statistical methods, and dictionary may be freely reproduced,
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THIRD-PARTY MATERIALS
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The Takahashi EVA interlinear transcription (referenced throughout this
work) is the property of Takeshi Takahashi and is distributed via the
Stolfi IVTFF archive. It is not redistributed in this package.

The Beinecke MS 408 high-resolution facsimile is the property of the
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. It is not
redistributed in this package.

The Vulgate Latin and Mishneh Torah Hebrew texts referenced as control
corpora are public-domain works and are not redistributed in this
package; specifications for assembling them locally are provided in
data/control_corpora_manifest.json.
