Palimpsests Sebastian P. Brock Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University The International Balzan Prize Foundation George A. Kiraz Sebastian P. Brock Aaron M. Butts Lucas Van Rompay Ute Possekel Daniel L. Schwartz David A. Michelson Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, and TEI editing by Ute S. Posssekel Data cleaning and initial valid TEI encoding by David Michelson XSLT transformations by Winona Salesky Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, TEI schema, and TEI encoding and editing by Daniel L. Schwartz Conversion to semantic XML by George A. Kiraz Electronic Edition Version 1.5 Published by Gorgias Press LLC, 954 River Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA www.gorgiaspress.com for Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute Published with the collaboration of Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal Published and hosted with the collaboration of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University

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Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition George A. Kiraz Sebastian P. Brock Aaron M. Butts Lucas Van Rompay Ute Possekel Daniel L. Schwartz David A. Michelson Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, and TEI editing by Ute S. Posssekel Data cleaning and initial valid TEI encoding by David Michelson XSLT transformations by Winona Salesky Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, TEI schema, and TEI encoding and editing by Daniel L. Schwartz Conversion to semantic XML by George A. Kiraz Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage Sebastian P. Brock Aaron M. Butts George A. Kiraz Lucas Van Rompay Piscataway, N.J. Gorgias Press for Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute 2011 Copyright ©2011 by Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute ISBN: 978-1-59333-714-8
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Palimpsests https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Palimpsests http://syriaca.org/bibl/419 410 subject Palimpsest is the term used for a parchment ms. that has been written on twice (or rarely, more times), where the original script has been erased.

Palimpsest is the term used for a parchment ms. that has been written on twice (or rarely, more times), where the original script has been erased. A very high proportion of the older surviving texts in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (CPA) are under texts in palimpsests. Palimpsests where Syriac is the upper text mostly date between the 9th and 12th cent.; the under text may be in a variety of different languages, Greek, Latin, Armenian, Coptic, CPA, as well as an earlier Syriac text. Two particularly notable examples are ms. Sinai Syr. 30 (upper text, probably dated 779: Lives of holy women; lower: Old Syriac Gospels, Acts of Thomas, Ephrem Graecus); and ms. Vatican Syr. 623 (upper, 886: 40 Martyrs of Sinai, etc.; lower: Syriac translation of Galen and of Menander’s Dyskolos, as well as texts in Arabic, Armenian, CPA, and Greek). A number of Syriac mss. in the British Library have remarkable undertexts, e.g. e.g., Add. 14,512 (the oldest dated biblical ms. in any language; Isaiah, 459/60); Add. 14,574 and 14,623 (Ephrem, Prose Refutations); Add. 17,210–11, copied in the Monastery of Shemʿun, Qartmin ca. 800 (Homer, Euclid).

Syriac, and especially CPA, may also be the under text where the upper text is in other languages, Greek, Arabic, Georgian, or Hebrew. Very occasionally manuscripts are doubly palimpsest ( e.g. e.g., ms. Sinai Arabic 514).

See Fig. 95.

Sources F. d’Aiuto, ‘Graeca in codici orientali della Biblioteca Vaticana’, in Tra Oriente e Occidente: Scritture e libri greci fra le regioni orientali di Bisanzio e l’Italia, ed. L.  Perria (2003), 227–96, esp. 266–78. A.  Desreumaux, Codex sinaiticus Zosimi rescriptus (1997). (Cyril of Jerusalem and biblical texts in CPA under Georgian). A.  Schmidt, ‘Syriac palimpsests in the British Library’, in Palimpsestes et éditions de textes: Les textes littéraires, ed. V. Somers (2009), 161–86. M.  Sokoloff and J.  Yahalom, ‘Christian palimpsests from the Cairo Geniza’, Revue d’histoire des textes 8 (1978), 111–132.
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