New light on old manuscripts : the Sinai palimpsests and other advances in palimpsest studies / Claudia Rapp, Giulia Rossetto, Jana Grusková, Grigory Kessel (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rapp, Claudia, editor.

Rossetto, Giulia, editor.

Grusková, Jana, editor.

Kessel, Grigory, editor.

Series:

Denkschriften (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) ; 547. Bd.

Denkschriften (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse). Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung ; Bd. 45.

Denkschriften, 0029-8824 ; 547. Band

Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung ; Band 45

Language:

English

French

German

Italian

Subjects (All):

Palimpsests--Egypt--Sinai, Mount.

Palimpsests.

Manuscripts--Egypt--Sinai, Mount.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

524 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, facsimiles ; 30 cm.

Other Title:

Sinai palimpsests and other advances in palimpsest studies

Place of Publication:

Vienna : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, [2023]

Language Note:

26 English, 1 German, 1 Italian, 2 French contributions; includes abstracts in English.

Summary:

"The study of palimpsest manuscripts has a long tradition and has led to spectacular discoveries of new texts or new text versions. Recent decades have seen the development of advanced non-destructive methods of multispectral imaging and computer-based image processing. The focus of such research have been individual manuscripts, such as the Archimedes palimpsest that was studied in Baltimore, or the Dexippus fragments in Vienna. The Sinai Palimpsests Project broke new ground by studying for the first time a collection of palimpsest manuscripts that have been preserved for centuries in the library of the Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai (Egypt). The erased layers preserve texts in eleven lnaguages of the Christian Orient. An international team of scholars has identified numerous new texts or versions of texts, often in very early scripts. This volume has its origin in a conference that was held in Vienna in 2018, where these results of the Sinai Palimpsests Project were presented, along with the advances in image capture and image processing that have made them possible. Additional contributions about current projects in the study of palimpsests, also including Jewish and Muslim text traditions, place the study of palimpsest manuscripts within the larger context of the cultural history of the middle ages. The 30 contributions in this volume thus offer a cross-section, including the most recent technologies, of the current state of research in palimpsest studies"--Back cover.

Contents:

The Sinai palimpsests: piercing the mists of time / Hieromonk Justin of Sinai

The Sinai Palimpsests Project (2011-2016): goals, methods, and contributions / Michael B. Phelps

A cache of palimpsests and Christian manuscript culture across the medieval Mediterranean: first results of the Sinai Palimpsests Project / Claudia Rapp

Classical texts among the palimpsests of the Monastery of St. Catherine (Sinai): an overview / Giulia Rossetto

Scritture, libri e testi greci: nuovi materiali dal Sinai / Pasquale Orsini

Arabic NF 8 and the Latin manuscripts of St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai / Michelle P. Brown

A catacomb of Syriac texts: Codex Arabicus (Sin. ar. 514) revisited / Grigory Kessel

Le palimpseste Sin. syr. NF M56N du nouveau fonds de Sainte-Catherine: son apport à la codicologie araméenne christo-palestinienne, aux versions anciennes des textes bibliques et à l'histoire de la liturgie / Alain J. Desreumaux

The missing quire of Codex Climaci rescriptus containing 1-2 Corinthians in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (Sin. syr. NF M38N) / Christa Müller-Kessler

Découvertes importantes dans des manuscrits palimpsestes du Sinaï: CPA NF Fragment 16, Géo. NF 84-90 et Syr. NF Fragment 76 / Bernard Outtier

Unknown palimpsest of an Iadgari from the Sinai Collection of Georgian Manuscripts / Zaza Aleksidze and Dali Chitunashvili

New light on the Caucasian Albanian palimpsests of St. Catherine's Monastery / Jost Gippert

'Excavating' the palimpsests in the Glagolitic manuscripts from Sinai / Heinz Miklas

Palimpsests from the Cairo Genizah and the Qubbat al-Khazna in Damascus / Ronny Vollandt

Deposits of texts and cultures in Qur'ānic palimpsests: a few remarks on objects and dynamics in palimpsesting / Alba Fedeli

Greek palimpsests in the Patriarchal Library in Istanbul and the making of a palimpsest in 15th-century Constantinople / André Binggeli

Challenges in working with music palimpsests / Andreas Janke

Neue paläographische Einblicke in einige palimpsestierte Handschriften aus den griechischen Beständen der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek / Jana Grusková and Giuseppe de Gregorio

Editing the Basilica and the role of palimpsests. Vind. suppl. gr. 200 and the transmission of the early text / Bernard H. Stolte

A carbonized Septuagint palimpsest of the Libri sapientiales in biblical majuscule, Codex Taurinensis, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, C.V.25 (Rahlfs-Ms. 3010): its text and context / Felix Albrecht and Chiara Faraggiana di Sarzana

New light on the Gothic palimpsest from Bologna / Carla Falluomini, Simon Brenner, and Bernadette Frühmann

The Sinai Palimpsests Project: a view from the imaging room / Damiano Kasotakis

Image processing methods that reveal erased handwriting: developments of the last two decades / Keith T. Knox

Multispectral image collection and statistical processing of palimpsests at St. Catherine's Monastery / Roger L. Easton, Jr. and David Kelbe

X-ray flourescence investigations on iron gall ink writing: equipment and geometry / Leif Glaser

Imaging as a diagnostic tool for manuscript inspection / Irmgard Schuler

GalenQt: a new multispectral imaging tool for recovering lost text and its use for the reconstruction of the Lacuna in Galen's Simple Drugs, Book 8 / Naima Afif, Siam Bhayro, Peter E. Pormann, William I. Sellers, and Natalia Smelova

Reflections on the digital palimpsest: data modelling and data management / Doug Emery

Dispersed palimpsest offers digital insight into St. Catherine's Library / Michael B. Toth

From technology to text: reading and editing the Lacunose manuscript / Gregory Heyworth

Interactive learning in palimpsest research / András Németh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783700191575

370019157X

OCLC:

1409134318

Publisher Number:

9783700191575