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- Collection: Fakes, Lies and Forgeries: Rare Books and Manuscripts from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection
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A copy of a letter written by our blessed lord and saviour Jesus Christ and eighteen miles from Iconiam; to which is added King Abgarus' letter to our saviour, and our saviour's answer; likewise, Lentulus's epistle to the Senate of Rome, containing a description of Jesus Christ
Broadside print of three apocryphal texts; Jesus's so-called 'Letter from Heaven', first promulgated in the sixth century; the correspondence between Jesus and 'Agbarus' (i.e. the King Abgar of Edessa), dating from the third century, and reported in…
Germanicarum rerum quatuor celebriores vetustioresque chronographi, descriptionem ab orbe conditio usque ad tempora Henrici IIII Imperatoris
A collection of medieval chronicles, beginning with the editio princeps of De vita Caroli Magni et Rolandi, a C11 life of Charlemagne falsely attributed to Turpin, Archbishop of Reims (died. c. 800).
Aelfredi regis res gestae
The Deeds of Alfred King of Wessex, attributed to Asser, a C9 Welsh monk, bishop of Sherborne, serving at Alfred's court, known as the author of a Life of the king.