a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible
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palimpsest::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | holograph, manuscript |
Examples of palimpsest
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In the case of the Archimedes palimpsest, this was done by some monks in about 1200.
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How the palimpsest arrived at the Walters is an improbable story in itself.
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The palimpsest of such channels allows the mining sequence to be inferred.
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Some of it is lost, as the DNA palimpsest has been erased and re-written.
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A series of propositions of geometry are proved in the palimpsest by similar arguments.
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The story is a many-layered palimpsest that Ferguson expertly deciphers.
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To the present day survived about sixty palimpsest manuscripts of the Greek New Testament.
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Edition based on a palimpsest found in the Vatican Library by Angelo Mai.
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The above piece of the palimpsest codex shows two layers of script.
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- A manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible
- A palimpsest (/u02C8pu00E6lu026Ampsu025Bst/) is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off so that the page can be reused for another document. Parchment and other materials for writing or engraving upon were expensive to produce, and in the interest of economy were re-used wherever possible...
- Palimpsest is a novel by Catherynne M. Valente, published in March of 2009. It follows four separate characters as they discover and explore a mysterious city accessed only at night.
- A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written. ...
- (Palimpsests) Eec. - Palimpsest MSS., that is, MSS. written upon material from which older writing has been previously removed by washing or scraping, are described in a separate article (Palimpsest). The ornamentation of MSS. is fully dealt with under the headings Illuminated Mss., and Miniatures.
- From the Greek palimpsestos ("scraped again"), a palimpsest is reused writing support material from which theunderlying text has been erased (by washing in the case of papyrus and by using scraping devices in the case of parchment). ...
- An erased parchment, which is then reused.
- A circular feature on the surface of dark icy moons such as Ganymede and Callisto lacking the relief associated with craters; Pamlimpsests are thought to be impact craters where the topographic relief of the crater has been eliminated by slow adjustment of the icy surface.
- A manuscript which has been re-used by scraping off the original text and writing over the top
