Venerable Copies: The Afterlife of a Fragment of a Letter by Wang Xizhi (303–361)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts: An Introduction 1
4. Part I: From Copies to Forgeries
5. Cuneiform Fakes: A Long History from Antiquity to the Present Day 25
6. How Writing Came about in Glozel, France 61
7. Venerable Copies: The Afterlife of a Fragment of a Letter by Wang Xizhi (303–361) 77
8. Fakes and Islamic Manuscripts 89
9. Part II: Forgers and Their Motives
10. Fake Ancient Roman Inscriptions and the Case of Wolfgang Lazius (1514–1565) 101
11. Michel Fourmont and His Forgeries 123
12. Sicilian Sweets. The Fanciful Frauds of Wily Father Vella 149
13. Et tout le reste est littérature, or: Abraham Firkowicz, the Writer with a Chisel 173
14. Supplement: The Forgery of Colophons and Ownership of Hebrew Codices and Scrolls by Abraham Firkowicz 195
15. Part III: Identifying Fakes
16. La invención del Sacromonte: How and Why Scholars Debated about the Lead Books of Granada for Two Hundred Years 209
17. Identifying Fakes: Three Case Studies with Examples from Different Types of Written Artefacts 263
18. Detection of Fakes: The Merits and Limits of Non-Invasive Materials Analysis 281
19. Producing and Identifying Forgeries of Chinese Manuscripts 291
20. Contributors 337