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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'.
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.
Thresor admirable, de la sentence prononcée par Ponce Pilate, contre nostre Sauveur Jesus-Christ
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
Epistolae sanctissimorum sequenti codice contentae
A group of apocryphal letters purporting to be written by (among others) St. Anthony, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus.