Pseudepigraphy

apocryphal Gospel

pseudepigraphical gospel written in the Late Middle Ages

non-canonical gospel

thumb|upright=1.2|Ossian Singing, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787

second-century Sethian Gnostic text

pseudepigraphical grimoire (book of spells)

Welsh antiquarian and poet (1747–1826)

passage (John 7:53–8:11) from the Gospel of John that does not appear in the earliest manuscripts

Italian friar, scholar, historian and forger (1437–1502)

Bahir or Sefer HaBahir (, ; "Book of Clarity" or "Book of Illumination") is an anonymous mystical work, attributed to a 1st-century rabbinic sage Nehunya ben HaKanah (a contemporary of Yochanan ben Zakai) because it begins with the words, "R. Nehunya ben HaKanah said". It is also known as Midrash of Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah .

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Ukrainian musician

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Byzantine historian and writer (floruit 1453)

Apocryphal letters from the Ottoman sultan demanding Cossacks to surrender with a defiant mocking Cossack response

4th-century forgery claiming to be a set of letters between Paul the Apostle and Seneca the Younger

New Testament apocryphal work

Ostanes (from Greek ), also spelled Hostanes and Osthanes, is a legendary Persian magus and alchemist. It was the pen-name used by several pseudo-anonymous authors of Greek and Latin works from Hellenistic period onwards. Together with Pseudo-Zoroaster and Pseudo-Hystaspes, Ostanes belongs to the group of pseudepigraphical "Hellenistic Magians", that is, a long line of Greek and other Hellenistic writers who wrote under the name of famous "Magians". While Pseudo-Zoroaster was identified as the "inventor" of astrology, and Pseudo-Hystaspes was stereotyped as an apocalyptic prophet, Ostanes was

7th-century Syriac Christian text

Christian Gnostic text

fictional book in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four

Pseudo-Philo is the name commonly used for the unknown, anonymous author of the Biblical Antiquities. This text is also commonly known today under the Latin title Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum (Book of Biblical Antiquities), a title that is not found in the Latin manuscripts. Although probably originally written in Hebrew, it is preserved today only through a Latin translation found in 18 complete and 3 fragmentary manuscripts that date between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries CE. In addition, material paralleling that in the Biblical Antiquities is also found in the Chronicles of Jerahmee

pseudepigraphical Epistle attributed to Paul the Apostle that is mentioned in the Muratorian fragment

piano piece by Paul de Senneville; first performed by Richard Clayderman

supposed author of the forged Poésies de Clotilde, which were actually written in the early 19th century

thumb|210px|Manuscript Kassel; 9th century, Mandragora Pseudo-Apuleius is the name given in modern scholarship to the author of a 4th-century herbal known as Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarius or Herbarium Apuleii Platonici. The author of the text apparently wished readers to think that it was by Apuleius of Madaura (124–170 CE), the Roman poet and philosopher, but modern scholars do not believe this attribution. Little or nothing else is known of Pseudo-Apuleius.

American theologian

Pseudo-Simeon (or Pseudo-Symeon Magistros) is the conventional name given to the anonymous author of a late 10th-century Byzantine Greek chronicle which survives in a single codex, Parisinus Graecus 1712, copied in the 12th or 13th century.

German rabbi

Pseudo-Archimedes is a name given to pseudo-anonymous authors writing under the name of 'Archimedes' as quoted by various sources of the Islamic Golden Age such as Al-Jazari for the construction of water clocks. Archimedes himself is not known to have written any such manuscript as almost all the manuscripts have been lost.

American artist

English musician

American theologian

10th century Christian apocalyptic text

thumb|Interlinear Greek–Latin text from a 15th-century manuscript thumb|Start of the Arabic text thumb|Hugo of Santalla's Latin translation of Ahmad ibn Yusuf's commentary The Centiloquium ("one hundred sayings") is a Pseudo-Ptolemaic collection of one hundred aphorisms about astrology and astrological rules. It is first recorded at the start of the tenth century CE, when a commentary was written on it by the Egyptian mathematician Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Misri (later sometimes confounded with his namesake Ali ibn Ridwan ibn Ali ibn Ja'far al-Misri, who lived a century later and wrote a commentary