Scribes often scraped off existing text to overwrite new content, resulting in palimpsests—manuscripts bearing traces of previous writings. The hidden text is a fragment of the Old Syriac ...

Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval ... In the example above, a text in Syriac overlays a ninth-century translation of a page from a medical treatise by the ...

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