Joseph Mortland Cotterill
Peregrinus Proteus: An Investigation Into Certain Relations Subsisting Between De Morte ...
https://archive.org/details/peregrinusprote00cottgoog
Pretty sure he's saying that the 2 epistles of Clement, the infancy Gospel of Thomas, the passing of Peregrinus, the epistle to Diognetus, and much else besides, were forged in the Byzantine period during the revival of learning of the 9th century, near in time to Photius of Constantinople, but then I only read a few pages.
It's been added to my book list:
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a rather unusual book
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Yeah it's crazy but he's really smart demonstrating again that common sense doesn't always come with erudition.
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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Re: a rather unusual book
Oh, it's from 1879? We can completely dismiss it, then. 
“The only sensible response to fragmented, slowly but randomly accruing evidence is radical open-mindedness. A single, simple explanation for a historical event is generally a failure of imagination, not a triumph of induction.” William H.C. Propp