Pseudepigrapha (also
Anglicized as "pseudepigraph" or "pseudepigraphs") are falsely works, texts whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past. The word
pseudepigrapha (from the ,
pseudes, "false" and ,
epigraphe, "name" or "inscription" or "ascription"; thus when taken together it means "false superscription or title"; see the related
epigraphy) is the plural of "pseudepigraphon" (sometimes
Latinized as "pseudepigraphum").