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The Sanaa palimpsest (also Ṣanʽā’ 1 or DAM 01-27.1) or Sanaa Quran is one of the oldest Quranic manuscripts in existence. [1] Part of a sizable cache of Quranic and non-Quranic fragments discovered in Yemen during a 1972 restoration of the Great Mosque of Sanaa, the manuscript was identified as a palimpsest Quran in 1981 as it is written on parchment and comprises two layers of text.
Digitization of a Dunhuang manuscript. Dunhuang manuscripts refer to a wide variety of religious and secular documents (mostly manuscripts, including hemp, silk, paper and woodblock-printed texts) in Tibetan, Chinese, and other languages that were discovered by Frenchman Paul Pelliot and British man Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, Gansu, China, from 1906 to 1909.
The camera and digital imaging assembly were developed specifically for the purpose of photographing illegible ancient texts. [ 87 ] On 18 December 2012 [ 88 ] the first output of this project was launched together with Google on the dedicated site Deadseascrolls.org.il. [ 89 ] The site contains both digitizations of old images taken in the ...
The Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, a Greek manuscript of the Bible from the 5th century, is a palimpsest.. In textual studies, a palimpsest (/ ˈ p æ l ɪ m p s ɛ s t /) is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off in preparation for reuse [1] in the form of another document. [2]
Although most of the texts uncovered at Oxyrhynchus were non-literary in nature, the archaeologists succeeded in recovering a large corpus of literary works that had previously been thought to have been lost. Many of these texts had previously been unknown to modern scholars. [citation needed]
The upper text conforms to the standard 'Uthmanic Quran, whereas the lower text contains many variants to the standard text. An edition of the lower text was published in 2012. [27] A radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment containing the lower text to before 671 AD with 99% probability. [28]
Discoveries of palimpsest copies of significant classical texts have also been particularly studied since the 19th century. [ 5 ] Among the causes of the loss of books in late antiquity, there is evidence for systematic annihilation of Christian scriptures in the persecution of Christians , [ 6 ] as well as pagan scriptures in the course of the ...
Central European (Northern) type of finished parchment made of goatskin stretched on a wooden frame Parchment with a quill and ink. Parchment is a writing material made from specially prepared untanned skins of animals—primarily sheep, calves, and goats.