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The Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery is the premier library collection in the world that is dedicated entirely to the subject of textual fakery and imposture. The collection totals nearly two thousand rare books and manuscripts and is kept at the Special Collections Department of Johns Hopkins University ’s ...
Epistle to the Alexandrians — an unknown text derided as a forgery in a 7th-century manuscript; Epistle to the Laodiceans — a lost letter of Saint Paul, often "rediscovered" by forgers; Essene Gospel of Peace — a text which claims, among other things, that Jesus was a vegetarian; Gospel of Josephus — a forgery created to raise publicity ...
Cover of The Songs of Bilitis (1894), a French pseudotranslation of Ancient Greek erotic poetry by Pierre Louÿs. Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author, or is a purported memoir or other presumably nonfictional ...
M. Jose E. Marco; Władysław Machejek; James Macpherson; Ern Malley hoax; Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora; Gina Marks; Mathilde Lefebvre letter
A sequel to An enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets by John Carter and Graham Pollard: the forgeries of H. Buxton Forman & T.J. Wise re-examined (Print). London; Berkeley, CA: Scolar Press. ISBN 978-0-85967-639-7. Bonner, Gerald (31 July 2013). "Forgery: Instances of literary forgery". Encyclopædia Britannica.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. ... Literary forgeries (7 C, 156 P) P. Photography forgeries (16 P)
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Examples of his work, as known forgeries, are held in various collections, [4] among them the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana in the Library of Congress. [5] The noted collector A. S. W. Rosenbach was proud to have a Cosey forgery of two verses from Edgar Allan Poe 's poem "The Raven".