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Palimpsests and Related Phenomena across Languages and Cultures

  • Edited by: Jost Gippert , José Maksimczuk and Hasmik Sargsyan
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025
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Studies in Manuscript Cultures

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Palimpsests are manuscripts whose original content has been erased, scraped away, washed off and later overwritten. In their lower layers, they often contain unique versions of texts – including those otherwise lost – from Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The volume addresses palimpsesting across languages, cultures, and times, as well as up-to-date research and imaging practices applied to them and results achieved in reconstituting removed layers.

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Jost Gippert, Universität Hamburg; José Maksimczuk, Universität Hamburg; Hasmik Sargsyan, Universität Hamburg, Germany.

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Contents

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Removed and Rewritten: Palimpsests and Related Phenomena from a Cross-cultural Perspective

Jost Gippert
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Written Sources on the Use of Reagents in the Palimpsests Veronenses XV, XL, and LXII: Towards an Archaeology of Destruction

Emanuel Zingg
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Palimpsest Manuscripts in the National Library of Greece, with a Focus on EBE 192

Zisis Melissakis
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Some Reflections on Selected Leaves of the Palimpsest Manuscript Athos, Konstamonitou 99

Stefan Alexandru
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The Trials and Tribulations of a Palimpsest Reader

Christa Müller-Kessler
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Beyond the Invisible: Some Aspects of Syriac Palimpsests

Grigory Kessel
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A Georgian Palimpsest Folio in an Athonite Greek Manuscript

Bernard Outtier
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An Ancient Armenian Text of the Gospel of John in a Graz Palimpsest: Preliminary Observations

Erich Renhart
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Palimpsests from the Caucasus: Two Case Studies

Jost Gippert
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The Oldest Georgian Witness of the Martyrdom of St Febronia

Mariam Kamarauli
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New Witnesses of the Jerusalem-Rite Lectionary: Georgian Palimpsests Ivir. georg. 47 and Ivir. georg. 59

Eka Kvirkvelia
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Linguistic Divergence in Armenian Bible and Lectionary Palimpsests

Hasmik Sargsyan
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Uncovering Lost Armenian Texts: Schøyen Collection MS 575 and the Armenian Translation of John Chrysostom’s Commentary on the Psalms

Emilio Bonfiglio
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A Survey of the Palimpsests among the Slavic Manuscripts of Mount Sinai

Heinz Miklas
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Ethiopic Palimpsests

Ted Erho
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Personal Qur’ans in Early Islam: A Case of Palimpsesting and Training

Alba Fedeli
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Palimpsesting or Paper Reuse in Islamic Manuscripts of West Africa

Darya Ogorodnikova and Khaoula Trad
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Palimpsests on Purpose: Rethinking Intentional Erasure and Layers in Manuscript Culture

Halle O’Neal
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Inpainting with Generative AI: A Significant Step towards Automatically Deciphering Palimpsests

Hussein Mohammed, Mahdi Jampour and Jost Gippert
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Contributors

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Indexes

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eBook published on:
December 2, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9783111552170
Hardcover published on:
December 2, 2024
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111551524
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
6
Main content:
575
Illustrations:
30
Coloured Illustrations:
134
Tables:
31
Coloured Tables:
2
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111552170
eBook ISBN: 9783111552170
Hardcover ISBN: 9783111551524
Keywords for this book
Palimpsests; history of writing; multispectral imaging; text transmission
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Historians, students and scholars of Manuscript Studies and Computer Sciences, philologists, linguists, theologians
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