Biblical Archaeology Review

A General Catalogue of Books, Arranged in Classes: Offered for Sale by Bernard Quaritch (London, 1868). The description corresponds with the British Museum sale catalogue, “The Schapira [sic] Manuscripts, no. 302, Deuteronomy in Hebrew, 7 numbered and 8 unnumbered fragments, written on leather.” A copy of the latter description appears in Harry Rabinowicz, “The Shapira Manuscript Mystery,” The Jewish Chronicle, March 13, 1964, p. 9.

On this point see Allegro, Shapira Affair, esp. chap. 10, pp. 74ff.

British Library Add. MS. 57486, doc. H.

Letter by Charles Clermont-Ganneau (dated August 18, 1883), The Times, August 21, 1883, p. 8.

Ginsburg, The Moabite Stone: A Fac-simile of the Original Inscription, with an English Translation, and a Historical and Critical Commentary, 2nd ed. (London: Reeves and Turner, 1871), p. 10.

Gusta Lehrer-Jacobson, Fakes and Forgeries from Collections in Israel (exhibition catalogue; Tel Aviv: Eretz Israel Museum, 1989), p. 11*.

British Library Or. MS. 14705, separate undated note by Simpson.

The Academy 588 (1883), pp. 99–100; see also n. 28, above.

Over 40 contemporary newspaper accounts of the incident, from English and European newspapers and journals, are included in the British Library’s Add. MS. 41294, composed of “Papers relative to M. W. Shapira’s forged MS. of Deuteronomy,” which were given to the library by Ginsburg.

The Athenaeum 2913 (1883), pp. 242–244; the quotation is on p. 244.