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New Light on Old Manuscripts
The Sinai Palimpsests and Other Advances in Palimpsest Studies
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Claudia Rapp
Introduction .
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Hieromonk Justin of Sinai
The Sinai Palimpsests: Piercing the Mists of Time ........................................................ 21
Saint Catherine’s Monastery and its Palimpsests
Michael B. Phelps
The Sinai Palimpsests Project (2011-2016): Goals, Methods, and Contributions ............................. 31
Claudia Rapp
A Cache of Palimpsests and Christian Manuscript Culture across the Medieval Mediterranean:
First Results of the Sinai Palimpsests Project............................................................ 39
Giulia Rossetto
Classical Texts among the Palimpsests of the Monastery of St. Catherine (Sinai): An Overview 55
Pasquale Orsini
Scritture, libri e testi greci: nuovi materiali dal Sinai ....................................................... 73
Michelle P. Brown
Arabic NF 8 and the Latin Manuscripts of St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai ................................. 89
Grigory Kessel
A Catacomb of Syriac Texts: Codex Arabicus (Sin. ar. 514) Revisited............................................. 101
Alain J. Desreumaux
Le palimpseste Sin. syr. NF M56N du nouveau fonds de Sainte-Catherine : son apport a la codicologie
arameenne christo-palestinienne. aux versions anciennes des textes bibliques et a l’histoire de la liturgie ... 131
Christa Muller-Ressler
The Missing Quire of Codex Climaci rescriptus Containing 1-2 Corinthians in Christian
Palestinian Aramaic (Sin. syr. NF M38N) ........................................................................ 147
Bernard Outter
Decouvertes importantes dans des manuscrits palimpsestes du Sinai': CPANF Fragment 16,
Geo. NF 84-90 et Syr. NF Fragment 76 ..................................................................... 171
Zaza Aleksidze (f) and Dali Chitunashvili
Unknown Palimpsest of an Iadgari from the Sinai Collection of Georgian Manuscripts........................ 179
Jost Gippert
New Light on the Caucasian Albanian Palimpsests of St. Catherine’s Monastery............................... 187
Heinz Miklas
‘Excavating’ the Palimpsests in the Glagolitic Manuscripts from Sinai...................................... 217
Palimpsests and their Contexts
Ronny Vollandt
Palimpsests from the Cairo Genizah and the Qubbat al-Khazna in Damascus ................................ 231
Alba Fedeli
Deposits of Texts and Cultures in Qur anic Palimpsests: A Few Remarks on Objects and
Dynamics in Palimpsesting.................................................................................. 255
Andre Binggeli
Greek Palimpsests in the Patriarchal Library in Istanbul and the Making of a Palimpsest
in lS^-Century Constantinople ............................................................................ 283
Andreas Janke
Challenges in Working with Music Palimpsests.............................................................. 299
Palimpsests and their Contents
Jana Gruskova and Giuseppe De Gregorio
Neue palaographische Einblicke in einige palimpsestierte Handschriften aus den griechischen
Bestanden der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek......................................................... 317
Bernard H. Stolte
Editing the Basilica and the Role of Palimpsests. Vind. suppl. gr. 200 and the Transmission
of the Early Text...............................................................................
343
Felix Albrecht and Chiara Faraggiana di Sarzana
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 ....................................................................................... 355
Carla Fallxjomini, Simon Brenner, and Bernadette Fruhmann
New Light on the Gothic Palimpsest from Bologna............................................................. 373
Imaging and Processing Methods
Damianos Kasotakis
The Sinai Palimpsests Project: A View from the Imaging Room ................................................ 385
Keith T. Knox
Image Processing Methods that Reveal Erased Handwriting: Developments of the Last
Twro Decades ...............................................................................
395
Roger L. Easton, Jr. and David Kelbe
Multispectral Image Collection and Statistical Processing of Palimpsests
at St. Catherine’s Monastery.................................................................................... 407
Leif Glaser
X-Ray Fluorescence Investigations on Iron Gall Ink Writing: Equipment and Geometry.............................. 419
Irmgard Schuler
Imaging as a Diagnostic Tool for Manuscript Inspection....................................................... 431
Naima Afif, Siam Bhayro, Peter E. Pormann, William I. Sellers, and Natalia Smelova
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 ...............................
441
Management and Display
Doug Emery
Reflections on the Digital Palimpsest: Data Modelling and Data Management..................................... 465
Michael B. Toth
Dispersed Palimpsest Offers Digital Insight into St. Catherine’s Library ..................................... 475
Gregory Heyworth
From Technology to Text: Reading and Editing the Lacunose Manuscript.......................................... 489
Andras Nemeth
Interactive Learning in Palimpsest Research................................................................... 499
Index of Manuscripts
515
EDITORIAL REMARKS
For constant and meticulous care in accompanying every step of this volume we gratefully acknowledge the
input of Christian Gastgeber. For copy-editing and typesetting, the editors are immensely grateful to Katharina
Preindl.
In general, and especially for the spelling of personal names, we follow the standards of the Oxford Dictio-
nary of Byzantium, ed. A. P. Kazhdan, A.-M. Talbot, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1991).
The most commonly used abbreviations are listed in the ‘List of Abbreviations’ on page 11 of this volume.
