Uranii alexandrini [pseud.] De regibus Aegyptiorum libri tres
By: Operis ex codice palimpsesto edendi specimina proposuit Gulielmus Dindorfius
Publisher: e Typographeo academico.
Published: 1855
Place of publication: Oxonii
Language: lat
Number of pages: 10
Notes: Proof sheets, of which a few copies were circulated in Oxford during the last weeks of 1855; the final edition, with longer text and a revised preface, was published in January 1856.

A forgery, purporting to be a work on Egyptian history and chronology by one Uranius of Alexandria, supposed to have lived in the 4th century A.D. The ms., a palimpsest forged by Simōnidēs, appeared sufficiently genuine to deceive Dindorf, at least initially, though he later admitted its falseness.

Tipped in at end is an A.L.s. (A.S. P[ease]. to Francis [Fobes]; Cambridge, Mass., 10 Feb. 1940; 1 s. (1 ℓ.); referring to this work.