Fake artefacts are objects of fascination. This volume is devoted to fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from Mesopotamia to modern China. Produced for eco

Fakes and forgeries are objects of fascination. This volume contains a series of thirteen articles devoted to fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from the

This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that

A comprehensive discussion of the methodological and ethical issues inherent to researching unprovenienced artifacts.

As the first study of manuscript collections, this book asks what changes when sayings, stories, songs, and spells are brought together on the same carrier. Cov