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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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[Eleuterus or Eleutherius, Pope, pseudo.] Concilia, decreta, constitutiones, in re eclesiarum orbis Britannici ... primus hic tomus
Letters falsely attributed to the British 'King Lucius'.
Σιβυλλιακα Χρησμοι, hoc est Sybillina oracula cum interpretatione latina Sebastiani Castalionis
Second Johannes Opsopaeus edition. The earliest exposure of the Greek Sibylline prophecies as post-classical inventions; includes the commentaries of Xystus Betuleius or Sixt Birck and Sébastien Châteillon.
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…
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.
