A fabricated Christian missionary text fooled Latin readers for seven centuries.
Evidence
Such a ο¬nd seemed too good to be true as indeed it was: it was a pious hoax that a learned Christian (probably Alfonso Buenhombre himself) foisted on his Latin readers, a hoax not brought to light until 1992. β John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1276
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to scholarship on pious forgery/biblical pseudepigrapha and literary forgery in general, e.g. the Donation of Constantine and the Ossian poems.