Constantine Paleocappa was a 16th-century Byzantine scribe, forger, and counterfeiter. Paleocappa is believed to be the true author of the work known as the '' Collection'' or ''Bed of Violets'' (Ἰωνιά), and historically attributed to the 11th-century Byzantine empress

Eudokia Makrembolitissa Eudokia Makrembolitissa ( el, Εὐδοκία Μακρεμβολίτισσα, Eudocia Macrembolitissa) was a Byzantine empress by her successive marriages to Constantine X Doukas and Romanos IV Diogenes. She acted as regent of her minor son, Mich ...

. Paleocappa is believed to have fabricated this text from material in the '' Suda'', Diogenes Laërtius's '' Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'', the writings of Varinus Phavorinus Camera, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, and

Palaephatus Palaephatus (Ancient Greek: ) was the author of a rationalizing text on Greek mythology, the paradoxographical work ''On Incredible Things'' (; ), which survives in a (probably corrupt) Byzantine edition. This work consists of an introduction and ...

. Paleocappa also produced a forgery of some liturgical texts attributed to

Proclus of Constantinople Proclus (died 24 July 446) was an archbishop of Constantinople. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Catholic Churches, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Oriental Orthodoxy. Biography Proclus became secretary to Arch ...

, as well as a 13th-century polemic against the Jews attributed to "Thaddaios Pelusiotes", which was based on an actual 14th-century polemic by

Matthew Blastares Matthew Blastares ( el, Ματθαῖος Βλαστάρης or Βλάσταρις, Matthaios Blastares/Blastaris; ) was a 14th-century Byzantine Greek monk in Thessalonica and early scholarly opponent of reconciliation with Rome. He was also the ...

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