palimpsest
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A new exhibition staged online by Cambridge University Library looks at the history of palimpsests, and how Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scripts were all variously overwritten and underwritten.
Just a couple of weeks ago, the Rochester Institute of Technology announced that a group o
A digital edition of the 8th-century Codex Zacynthius, launched by the University of Birmingham’s Institute for Textual Schola
London--Christie’s is pleased with the results achieved for the palimpsest of a Qur’an copied onto a Christian text, realising £596,790 during the Art of th
In the week that has passed since my last posting, I have exhausted my supply of recreational reading, a circumstance that has occasioned a trip to Parnassas Books, one of my favorite haunts here on t
