Manuscript Fraud

This “fifteenth-century manuscript” now on e-bay
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is a virtual manuscript – a fraud concocted from shots of other manuscripts. So far the cover has been identified as coming from a another book in Scandinavia. The picture of the binding is stolen from the web site of the Royal Library in Copenhagen, showing the back cover of ms. GKS 1612 ( Heures de Charles de la maison de France, dernier duc de Bourgogne) lots of details are unmistakable (including the shadows on the gray background!) It has not been modified, just cropped and diminished. See :
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Thanks to Erik Drigsdahl (CHD Center for Haandskriftstudier i Danmark) for this precision.

http://blog.pecia.fr/post/2007/05/08/Arnaque-au-manuscrit-virtuel#comments

Klaus Graf

Historiker und Archivar, Blogger

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