From left to right: 1) unidentified (in background); 2) Emma J. Beckwith ; 3) D. F. Duvall; 4) unidentified (seated); 5) W.E. Swann; 6) unidentified (in background); 7) Thomas S. Cullen; 8) Max Brodel; 9) unidentified (in back); 10) Elizabeth Hurdon;…
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…