Wilfrid Michael Voynich

Wilfrid Michael Voynich

Wilfridas Mykolas Vojničius (31 October 1865 – 19 March 1930), born Michał Habdank-Wojnicz, was a Polish- Lithuanian revolutionary, British and American antiquarian and bibliophile, and the eponym of the Voynich manuscript.

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