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Palimpsests and Related Phenomena across Languages and Cultures
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Edited by:
Jost Gippert
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
Open Access
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.
Author / Editor information
Jost Gippert, Universität Hamburg; José Maksimczuk, Universität Hamburg; Hasmik Sargsyan, Universität Hamburg, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Removed and Rewritten: Palimpsests and Related Phenomena from a Cross-cultural Perspective
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Written Sources on the Use of Reagents in the Palimpsests Veronenses XV, XL, and LXII: Towards an Archaeology of Destruction
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Palimpsest Manuscripts in the National Library of Greece, with a Focus on EBE 192
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Some Reflections on Selected Leaves of the Palimpsest Manuscript Athos, Konstamonitou 99
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The Trials and Tribulations of a Palimpsest Reader
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Beyond the Invisible: Some Aspects of Syriac Palimpsests
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A Georgian Palimpsest Folio in an Athonite Greek Manuscript
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An Ancient Armenian Text of the Gospel of John in a Graz Palimpsest: Preliminary Observations
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Palimpsests from the Caucasus: Two Case Studies
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The Oldest Georgian Witness of the Martyrdom of St Febronia
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New Witnesses of the Jerusalem-Rite Lectionary: Georgian Palimpsests Ivir. georg. 47 and Ivir. georg. 59
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Linguistic Divergence in Armenian Bible and Lectionary Palimpsests
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Uncovering Lost Armenian Texts: Schøyen Collection MS 575 and the Armenian Translation of John Chrysostom’s Commentary on the Psalms
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A Survey of the Palimpsests among the Slavic Manuscripts of Mount Sinai
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Ethiopic Palimpsests
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Personal Qur’ans in Early Islam: A Case of Palimpsesting and Training
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Palimpsesting or Paper Reuse in Islamic Manuscripts of West Africa
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Palimpsests on Purpose: Rethinking Intentional Erasure and Layers in Manuscript Culture
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Inpainting with Generative AI: A Significant Step towards Automatically Deciphering Palimpsests
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Contributors
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Indexes
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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
Audience(s) for this book
Historians, students and scholars of Manuscript Studies and Computer Sciences, philologists, linguists, theologians
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
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