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  2. Literary forgery - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Joseph Cosey - Wikipedia

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    Cosey's career of historical forgery began by chance. In 1929, he went to the Library of Congress and asked to see some old documents; he stole a pay warrant endorsed by Benjamin Franklin in 1786. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] When he tried to sell it to a New York City book dealer, however, the dealer told him it was a fake. [ 2 ]

  4. Forged (book) - Wikipedia

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    It may very well have been written by someone named James. However, to the extent that the author gives the impression that they are James, the brother of Jesus, it might be considered a forgery: Ehrman notes that the author doesn't specify which James he is, meaning "that he is claiming to be the most famous James of all, Jesus's brother." [3]

  5. Outline of forgery - Wikipedia

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    Archaeological forgery; Art forgery; Black propaganda — false information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side; Counterfeiting. Counterfeit money — types of counterfeit coins include the cliché forgery, the fourrée and the slug; Counterfeit consumer goods ...

  6. Book of Jasher (biblical book) - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Jasher (also spelled Jashar; Hebrew: סֵפֶר הַיׇּשׇׁר sēfer hayyāšār), which means the Book of the Upright or the Book of the Just Man, is a lost book mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, often interpreted as a lost non-canonical book. Numerous forgeries purporting to be rediscovered copies of this lost book have been ...

  7. Ireland Shakespeare forgeries - Wikipedia

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    A forgery of Shakespeare's signature by Ireland, circa 1795. The Ireland Shakespeare forgeries were a cause célèbre in 1790s London, when author and engraver Samuel Ireland announced the discovery of a treasure-trove of Shakespearean manuscripts by his son William Henry Ireland. Among them were the manuscripts of four plays, two of them ...

  8. Pseudepigrapha - Wikipedia

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    Scholars have identified seven levels of authenticity which they have organized in a hierarchy ranging from literal authorship, meaning written in the author's own hand, to outright forgery: [11] Literal authorship. A church leader writes a letter in his own hand. Dictation. A church leader dictates a letter almost word for word to an amanuensis.

  9. Category:Literary forgeries - Wikipedia

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    M. Jose E. Marco; Władysław Machejek; James Macpherson; Ern Malley hoax; Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora; Gina Marks; Mathilde Lefebvre letter