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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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Ethruscarum antiquitatum fragmenta, quibus urbis Romae, aliarumque gentium primordia, mores, & res gestae indicantur

Miscellaneous papers and legal instruments under the hand and seal of William Shakspeare: including the tragedy of King Lear and a small fragment of Hamlet, from the original MSS. in the possession of Samuel Ireland, of Norfolk Street

Incomplete forged manuscript of John Shakespeare's 'Profession of Faith'

Vortigern, an historical tragedy, and Henry the Second, an historical drama, supposed to be written by the author of Vortigern

Miscellaneous papers and legal instruments under the hand and seal of William Shakspeare: including the tragedy of King Lear and a small fragment of Hamlet, from the original MSS. in the possession of Samuel Ireland, of Norfolk Street

Forged excerpt of six lines from Catiline, signed 'Ben Jonson', with attestation (also forged) 'Writt for me by my friende Mr B Jonson when I asked him for his hand-writing. John Marston 1612', and later authentification by Thomas Wharton (also forged), saying 'The lines are from his Catiline, Act. 3'

Forged verses 'No Songe No Supper', signed 'B. J.' and inscribed 'To my speciall goode Friende Sr Wm Davenant'; integral address leaf: 'For Sir William Davenant at the Swanne Taverne by Charinge Crosse'

Josippi Judische Historien ... new transferirt, und im teutschen vor nie gelesen

The first German, and first vernacular, edition of the Yosippon or Josippon, an account of Jewish history supposedly written either by Josephus or by the Joseph ben Gorion mentioned by him. The authenticity of the work was first questioned by Joseph…

De gentium aliquot migrationibus, sedibus fixis, linguarumque initiis & immutationibus ac dialectis, libri XII

Description que Publius Lentulus Gouverneur de Judee envoya au Sénat Romain sur Jesus Christ

A C18 MS French version of a letter giving an apocryphal physical description of Jesus, purportedly by the unhistorical eyewitness Publis Lentulus.

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