The Trials and Tribulations of a Palimpsest Reader

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Removed and Rewritten: Palimpsests and Related Phenomena from a Cross-cultural Perspective 1
4. Written Sources on the Use of Reagents in the Palimpsests Veronenses XV, XL, and LXII: Towards an Archaeology of Destruction 21
5. Palimpsest Manuscripts in the National Library of Greece, with a Focus on EBE 192 57
6. Some Reflections on Selected Leaves of the Palimpsest Manuscript Athos, Konstamonitou 99 87
7. The Trials and Tribulations of a Palimpsest Reader 107
8. Beyond the Invisible: Some Aspects of Syriac Palimpsests 159
9. A Georgian Palimpsest Folio in an Athonite Greek Manuscript 221
10. An Ancient Armenian Text of the Gospel of John in a Graz Palimpsest: Preliminary Observations 235
11. Palimpsests from the Caucasus: Two Case Studies 253
12. The Oldest Georgian Witness of the Martyrdom of St Febronia 283
13. New Witnesses of the Jerusalem-Rite Lectionary: Georgian Palimpsests Ivir. georg. 47 and Ivir. georg. 59 309
14. Linguistic Divergence in Armenian Bible and Lectionary Palimpsests 331
15. Uncovering Lost Armenian Texts: Schøyen Collection MS 575 and the Armenian Translation of John Chrysostom’s Commentary on the Psalms 351
16. A Survey of the Palimpsests among the Slavic Manuscripts of Mount Sinai 381
17. Ethiopic Palimpsests 393
18. Personal Qur’ans in Early Islam: A Case of Palimpsesting and Training 433
19. Palimpsesting or Paper Reuse in Islamic Manuscripts of West Africa 475
20. Palimpsests on Purpose: Rethinking Intentional Erasure and Layers in Manuscript Culture 509
21. Inpainting with Generative AI: A Significant Step towards Automatically Deciphering Palimpsests 535
22. Contributors 547
23. Indexes 551