A palimpsest () is a manuscript page from a scroll or book from which the text has been scraped off and which can be used again.

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.

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.

This is a radical change in attitude from the conditions which prevailed several years ago, when a series of bombings was directed against Negroes who were moving into previously all-white neighborhoods of Dallas.

Note that the mass scale is one to two orders of magnitude greater than some previously used ; ;

If, for instance, such a change is produced by one or a few insulin comas or electroshocks, previously inhibited conditioned reactions reappear.

If cell Af has not previously been assigned as the information cell of a form in the text-form list, it is now assigned as the information cell of Af.

The index is essentially a new treatment of previously compiled morphological data.

This, too, is recorded against distance by a repeat run over the same track previously cut.

However, if the excited atom has been previously ionized, in particular if one of its inner shell electrons has been removed, a phenomenon known as the Auger effect may take place where the quantity of energy is transferred to one of the bound electrons causing it to go into the continuum.

Hence, historically, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as " Cape Dutch " ( a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers ) or ' kitchen Dutch ' ( a crude or derogatory term Afrikaans was called in its earlier days ).

For the adherents of this understanding of apostolic succession grace is transmitted during episcopal consecrations ( the ordination of bishops ) by the laying on of hands of bishops previously consecrated within the apostolic succession.

* Pictures of the cave where it is believed by Christians that Jesus was buried and from which it is believed he resurrected and a picture of the remains of the walls of the Temple of Venus previously constructed on that site by the Emperor Hadrian

Another way to state this is that the emitting object may have a transverse velocity with respect to the observer, but any light beam emitted from it which reaches the observer, cannot, for it must have been previously emitted in such a direction that its transverse component has been " corrected " for.

Their converging styles make it difficult to exactly understand the influences each had on the other, although it is clear enough to say that Aelbert started representing large scale forms ( something he had not done previously ) and placing animals as the focus of his paintings ( something that was specific to him ).

In these cases it is recommended that the surface should be previously sealed with an appropriate sealer.

* there remains less chance of accidental damage and infection, since the previously useless and exposed organ is sealed with a flap of protective skin

A principal purpose of acceptance testing is that, once completed successfully, and provided certain additional ( contractually agreed ) acceptance criteria are met, the sponsors will then sign off on the system as satisfying the contract ( previously agreed between sponsor and manufacturer ), and deliver final payment.

Although they were previously considered the sister group to the remaining crustaceans, it is now widely accepted that crustaceans form a paraphyletic group, and Branchiopoda are thought to be sister to a clade comprising Xenocarida ( Remipedia and Cephalocarida ) and Hexapoda ( insects and their relatives ).

OSC ( previously ODC ) is located at the embassy.

Disraeli wrote a personal letter to Gladstone, asking him to place the good of the party above personal animosity: " Every man performs his office, and there is a Power, greater than ourselves, that disposes of all this ..." In responding to Disraeli Gladstone denied that personal feelings played any role in his decision then and previously to accept office, while acknowledging that there were differences between him and Derby " broader than you may have supposed.

On each deal, each side is said to be either vulnerable or not vulnerable depending upon whether or not it has previously won a game ; if it has, the side is said to be vulnerable ; if it has not, it is said to be not vulnerable.

Bones, in particular after calcination to bone ash is used as source of calcium phosphate for the production of bone china and previously also phosphorus chemicals.

The term ' bootstrapping ' is related to building a security relation with a previously unknown device first and to allow installing security elements ( keys ) in the device and the BSF afterwards.

It had been pointed out previously by J. J. Thomson in his series of lectures at Yale University in May 1903 that the dynamic equilibrium between the velocity generated by a concentration gradient given by Fick's law and the velocity due to the variation of the partial pressure caused when ions are set in motion " gives us a method of determining Avogadro's Constant which is independent of any hypothesis as to the shape or size of molecules, or of the way in which they act upon each other ".