Normally in the pages of BAR, we condemn forgeries and advise our readers to stay well away from them. However, we’re making an exception for a new exhibit at Johns Hopkins University. Titled Fakes, Lies and Forgeries, the exhibit features 70 rare books and manuscripts—from antiquity to the modern era—that have been determined to be fakes. They come from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, a permanent collection at Johns Hopkins and the largest collection in the world about the history of forgery in the West.
Eyewitness accounts of the Fall of Troy, Alpine inscriptions documenting Noah’s settlement of Vienna after the Genesis Flood, annotated books from Shakespeare’s personal library and Jesus’ posthumous “Letter from Heaven” (above) are just a few highlights of the exhibit.
Fakes, Lies and Forgeries will run through February 1, 2015, at the George Peabody Library. Can you tell the truth from a lie? Find out at the exhibit!
Normally in the pages of BAR, we condemn forgeries and advise our readers to stay well away from them. However, we’re making an exception for a new exhibit at Johns Hopkins University. Titled Fakes, Lies and Forgeries, the exhibit features 70 rare books and manuscripts—from antiquity to the modern era—that have been determined to be fakes. They come from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, a permanent collection at Johns Hopkins and the largest collection in the world about the history of forgery in the West. Eyewitness accounts of the Fall of Troy, Alpine inscriptions documenting Noah’s […]
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