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Noun Concept

Categories: Articles with short description, Writing media, Textual scholarship, Manuscripts, Palimpsests

palimpsest Ghost-crater Inferior text Palimpest Palimpsestic

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 WordNet 3.0

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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 WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

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. Wikipedia

Manuscript page that has been scraped off and used again. Wikipedia Disambiguation

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. Wiktionary

Manuscript scraped clean for reuse. Wiktionary (translation)

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manuscript

reuse

HAS KIND

Archimedes Palimpsest

Arian fragment

HAS INSTANCE

Archimedes Palimpsest

Uncial 0281

Verona Palimpsest

Codex Floriacensis