Palimpsest
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In textual studies, a palimpsest 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 in the form of another document. Parc
The Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, a Greek manuscript of the Bible from the 5th century, is a palimpsest.
A Georgian palimpsest from the 5th or 6th century
Codex Nitriensis, with Greek text of Luke 9:22–33 (lower text)
Codex Nitriensis, with Syriac text (upper text)
Sanaa manuscript
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The Sanaa palimpsest or Sanaa Quran is one of the oldest Quranic manuscripts in existence and is important for textual criticism in Quranic studies. Part of a sizable cache of Quranic and non-Quranic
Palimpsest
…of the Old and New Testaments in Greek, attributed to the 5th century, are covered with works of Ephraem the Syrian in a hand of the 12th century. The Sanaa palimpsest is one of the oldest Quranic manuscripts in existence. Carbon dating of the parchment assigns a date somewhere before 671 with a probability of 99…
Recto side of the Stanford '07 folio. The upper text covers Surah 2 (al-Baqarah), verses 265–271.
The lower text of the above folio, recovered through X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging at Stanford University. The lower text covers Quran 2:191–196.
A fragment showing part of Surat Ta-Ha