#palimpsests

[dk-thrive]

We are palimpsests. We are manuscripts in which the writing has been erased and rewritten, erased and rewritten again. Everything fades, everything leaves a trace.

Jan Grue, I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir. B. L. Crook (Translator). (FSG Originals, August 17, 2021) 

[ancientstuff]

Students have discovered lost text on 15th-century manuscript leaves using an imaging system they developed as freshmen. By using ultraviolet-fluorescence imaging, the students revealed that a manuscript leaf held in RIT's Cary Graphic Arts Collection was actually a palimpsest, a manuscript on parchment with multiple layers of writing.

Isn’t it great that technology is showing us these long lost palimpsest documents? I’m just really in awe of the creativity of people who envision how to use the tech and the things they’re finding. Fantastic.

[landscape-stories]

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Max Sher - Palimpsests

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[earlhamclassics]

Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World's Oldest Continuously Run Libraries

The centuries-old texts were erased, and then written over, by monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt

Since 2011, researchers have photographed 74 palimpsests, which boast 6,8000 pages between them. And the team’s results have been quite astonishing. Among the newly revealed texts, which date from the 4th to the 12th century, are 108 pages of previously unknown Greek poems and the oldest-known recipe attributed to the Greek physician Hippocrates.

[muspeccoll]

The Invisible Poems Hidden in One of the World's Oldest Libraries

A new technique is revealing traces of lost languages that have been erased from ancient parchments.

Via Folger Shakespeare Library on Facebook.

[landscape-stories]

LS 29 | Cities  

Max Sher - Palimpsests

magazine.landscapestories.net

[landscape-stories]

LS 29 | Cities  

Max Sher - Palimpsests

magazine.landscapestories.net

[landscape-stories]

LS 29 | Cities  

Max Sher - Palimpsests

magazine.landscapestories.net