Manual of Christian Iconography

Following such forgery, he proceeded to the renaming of Panselinos, whom he is simply called Manuel Panselinos in the prologue of Dionysius 1; he himself renamed him Emmanuel Panelios the Panselinos. And having removed from the same prologue the words "and along with these, the measures in the natural," he inserted in their place the following long addition of his own invention: "in addition to these, a manual of heliography, which I (Dionysius) found in the manuscripts of his pupil Hierotheos (the Panselinos), a monk from Thessaloniki, as his signature says, [and] it was from the Greek into the simple, as also his life and another about the burning of cotton and the gluing of porcelain, and the measures of the same [and technical art]." 2 Through this addition, the reader was announced the encounter in the Hermeneia of a writing of some Hierotheos from the year 518, the testimony about Panselinos as a painter older than the 6th century, and the recording of astonishing things of this time, the invention of which is admitted to be of new times. Hence, it is reasonable to conclude that, since nothing was said about all these in the French edition of the Hermeneia, Simonides had the persistent goal, from the misfortune of having deceived Didron, to nullify the latter's discovery, and to shock the public that appreciated this, and thus be able to make himself wealthy through some gullible person. Fortunately, this secret goal of Simonides remained unrealized due to the public commotions that took place in the meantime regarding Simonides.

1) Our edition, p. 3. Simonides edition, p. 3.
2) Our edition, p. 4. Simonides edition, p. 4.