Harley 3941: from Jerome to Isidore
David Ganz
Palimpsests are texts from which the primary text has been effaced to make room for fresh writing. The practice was particularly important in early Middle Ages, when numerous, often precious, books were subjected this treatment. As a result, many ancient lay hidden European libraries centuries. Ever since first palimpsests discovered seventeenth century, scholars have fascinated by possibility of discovering hitherto unknown texts. For long time, lower script could only be brought back light day through use chemical reagents that proved very detrimental manuscripts. great advance away these destructive techniques came at beginning twentieth century with application ultra-violet photography. Today, striking advances field again being made development digital imaging. contributions volume focus mainly on cultural evidence offered Ages. Some contributors examined particular manuscripts detail (the London palimpsest Jerome’s Chronicle or Munich codex Benediktbeuern); others looked specific types suffered deletion way (liturgical palimpsests, Carolingian letters). also contains handlist all known palimpsested Beneventan script.
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