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A group of apocryphal letters purporting to be written by (among others) St. Anthony, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus.

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.

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…

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…

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

Apparently the first extant printing of the 'Aquila discovery' of a scroll purporting to record the death sentence pronounced by Pilate on Jesus, unearthed in late 1580 and examined by Camillo Borello; the present text may be adapted from his…

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.

Letters falsely attributed to the British 'King Lucius'.