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palimpsest and is
At the Walters Art Museum where the palimpsest is now conserved, the project has focused on experimental techniques to retrieve the remaining fifth.
It has been noticed that no entire work is generally found in any instance in the original text of a palimpsest, but that portions of many works have been taken to make up a single volume.
An exception is the Archimedes palimpsest ( see below ).
* The Sana ' a palimpsest is one of the oldest Qur ' anic manuscripts in existence.
* Codex Nitriensis, a volume containing a work of Severus of Antioch of the beginning of the 9th century is written on palimpsest leaves taken from 6th century manuscripts of the Iliad and the Gospel of St Luke, both of the 6th century, and the Euclid's Elements of the seventh or 8th century, British Museum
In medicine it is used to describe an episode of acute anterograde amnesia without loss of consciousness, brought on by the ingestion of alcohol or other substances: ' alcoholic palimpsest '.
During the opening credits of the film version of The Name of the Rose, it is described as " A palimpsest of the novel by Umberto Eco ".
Allix discovered that Codex Ephraemi is a palimpsest.
The chief manuscript of Plautus is a palimpsest, in which Plautus ' plays had been scrubbed out to make way for Augustine's Commentary on the Psalms.
The discovery in 1822 of large parts of Cicero's De re publica was one of the first major recoveries of an ancient text from a palimpsest, while the most famous recent example is the discovery of the Archimedes palimpsest ( hidden in a much later prayer book ).
The Archimedes Palimpsest is a palimpsest ( ancient overwritten manuscript ) on parchment in the form of a codex ( hand-written bound book, as opposed to a scroll ).
Dr. Will Noel said in an interview: " You start thinking striking one palimpsest is gold, and striking two is utterly astonishing.
On the western rim of the mare is the palimpsest Yerkes.
17212 manuscript which was discovered in 1853 and survives as a double palimpsest, that is, a 5th-century copy was overwritten in the 6th century with a Latin grammatical treatise and again in the 11th century with a Syriac translation of John Chrysostom's sermons.
It is a palimpsest that previously contained a sixth century copy of the Gothic translation of the Bible by Ulfilas written in Gothic uncial, with Rustic capitals as a display script.
The manuscript containing the Skeireins text is a palimpsest.
In February 1892, Agnes Smith Lewis identified a palimpsest in St Catherine's library that became known as the Syriac Sinaiticus and is still in the Monastery's possession.
The greater part of the palimpsest has, however, been deciphered and the text is now fairly complete.
The inner zone ( diameter of about 360 km ) is an example of a palimpsest: a high albedo circular feature of impact origin.
Portions of the interior are relatively level, and there is a palimpsest, Mee E, in the northwestern part of the floor.
It is a surrealistic stream-of-consciousness polemic against the white colonial power structure, a palimpsest of Afrocentric thought.
Near the midpoint is a palimpsest, or ghost-crater feature consisting of just the rim projecting up through the otherwise relatively level surface.

palimpsest and manuscript
In that year, Angelo Mai discovered in the Ambrosian library at Milan a palimpsest manuscript, on which had been originally written some of Fronto's letters to his imperial pupils and their replies ; four years later Mai found several more sheets from this manuscript in the Vatican.
It was not until 1956 that Bernhard Bischoff identified a third manuscript ( consisting of a single leaf ) that contained fragments of Fronto's correspondence with Verus, which overlapped the Milan palimpsest ; however, the actual manuscript had been first published in 1750 by Dom Tassin, who conjectured that it might have been the work of Fronto.
post-Hadrian annalist survives in retrieved fragments, from books XXVI, XXVIII, XXXIII, XXXV and XXXVI of his history, in 5th century uncials of African origin at the bottom of a ter scriptus manuscript palimpsest: see L. D. Reynolds ( ed.
The other important contributions to the field of Aramaic and Theology are the publications of the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, a 6th century palimpsest written in Christian Palestinian Aramaic which contains portions of the Old Testament and New Testament, and another palimpsest manuscript of the Forty Martyrs of the Sinai desert and the Story of Eulogios, the Stone Cutter in the same Aramaic dialect.
The manuscript received its name as a codex in which Greek translations of Ephraem the Syrian's treatises were written over (" rescriptus ") a former text that had been washed off its vellum pages, thus forming a palimpsest.
The largest part of the surviving text was uncovered as a palimpsest in 1819 in a Vatican Library manuscript ( Vat Lat 5757 ) of a work by Augustine and published in 1822.
A fragmentary Coptic manuscript of the fifth or fourth century, believed to be translated directly from the original Greek, and one leaf of a Latin palimpsest, dating to the fifth century, were then identified as deriving from the same text.
post-Hadrian annalist survives in retrieved fragments, from books XXVI, XXVIII, XXXIII, XXXV and XXXVI of his history, in 5th century uncials of African origin at the bottom of a ter scriptus manuscript palimpsest: see L. D. Reynolds ( ed.
" -- These were discovered by Mone in 1850 in a palimpsest manuscript from the Abbey of Reichenau, in the library of Carlsruhe.

palimpsest and page
On October 29, 2008, ( the tenth anniversary of the purchase of the palimpsest at auction ) all data, including images and transcriptions, were hosted on the Digital Palimpsest Web Page for free use under a Creative Commons License, and processed images of the palimpsest in original page order were posted as a Google Book.

palimpsest and from
The word " palimpsest " comes through Latin palimpsēstus from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος ( palímpsestos, “ scratched or scraped again ”) originally compounded from πάλιν ( palin, “ again ”) and ψάω ( psao, “ I scrape ”) literally meaning “ scraped clean and used again ”.
" This referred to the previous discovery of a text by Hypereides, an Athenian politician from the fourth century BC, which has also been found within the palimpsest.
165, becoming the first new text from the palimpsest to be published in a scholarly journal.
He also, on a journey home from Italy, deciphered in a palimpsest at the Abbey of St. Gall the fragments of Flavius Merobaudes, a Roman poet of the 5th century.
Communication and journalism from “ Daddy ” Bleyer to Wilbur Schramm: A palimpsest ( Journalism Monographs, No. 148 ).
The discovery in 1819 by Cardinal Angelo Mai was one of the first major recoveries of an ancient text from a palimpsest, and although Mai's techniques were crude by comparison with later scholars ', his discovery of De Republica heralded a new era of rediscovery and inspired him and other scholars of his time to seek more palimpsests.
It has also been used to image the Archimedes palimpsest by imaging the parchment leaves in bandwidths from 365-870 nm, and then using advanced digital image processing techniques to reveal the undertext of Archimedes work.
A fragmentary palimpsest of the 91st book was discovered in the Vatican Library in 1772, containing about a thousand words, and several papyrus fragments of previously unknown material, much smaller, have been found in Egypt since 1900, most recently about 40 words from Book 11, unearthed in the 1980s.
Aslian languages can be said to contain a complex palimpsest of loanwords from linguistic communities that no longer exist on the Malay Peninsula.

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