Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China

Körperschaft: Centre for the Study of Manuscript
Weitere Verfasser: Beit-Arié, Malachi , [MitwirkendeR] , [https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb]
Breniquet, C. , [MitwirkendeR] , [https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb]
Colini, Claudia, , [MitwirkendeR] , [https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb]
Déroche, François , [MitwirkendeR] , [https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb]
Friedrich, Michael , [MitwirkendeR] , [https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb]
Friedrich, Michael, , [HerausgeberIn] , [http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt]
Gengler, Olivier , [MitwirkendeR] , [https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb]
Gippert, Jost , [MitwirkendeR] , [https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb]
Hahn, Oliver , [MitwirkendeR] , [https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb]
Witkam, Jan Just, 1945- , [MitwirkendeR] , [https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb]
Lauer, Uta , [MitwirkendeR] , [https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb]
Michel, Cécile , [MitwirkendeR] , [HerausgeberIn]
Rabin, Ira , [MitwirkendeR] , [https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb]
Shapira, Dan , [MitwirkendeR] , [https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb]
Weber, Ekkehard, 1940- , [MitwirkendeR] , [https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020].
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (vi, 338 pages).
Schriftenreihe: Studies in manuscript cultures
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Parallelausgabe: Fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from ancient Mesopotamia to modern China (Print version) | ISSN: 9783110714227
Online Zugang: open access
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts: An Introduction
  • Part I: From Copies to Forgeries
  • Cuneiform Fakes: A Long History from Antiquity to the Present Day
  • How Writing Came about in Glozel, France
  • Venerable Copies: The Afterlife of a Fragment of a Letter by Wang Xizhi (303-361)
  • Fakes and Islamic Manuscripts
  • Part II: Forgers and Their Motives
  • Fake Ancient Roman Inscriptions and the Case of Wolfgang Lazius (1514-1565)
  • Michel Fourmont and His Forgeries
  • Sicilian Sweets. The Fanciful Frauds of Wily Father Vella
  • Et tout le reste est littérature, or: Abraham Firkowicz, the Writer with a Chisel
  • Supplement: The Forgery of Colophons and Ownership of Hebrew Codices and Scrolls by Abraham Firkowicz
  • Part III: Identifying Fakes
  • La invención del Sacromonte: How and Why Scholars Debated about the Lead Books of Granada for Two Hundred Years
  • Identifying Fakes: Three Case Studies with Examples from Different Types of Written Artefacts
  • Detection of Fakes: The Merits and Limits of Non-Invasive Materials Analysis
  • Producing and Identifying Forgeries of Chinese Manuscripts
  • Contributors