palimpsest definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a manuscript ... layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface < Canada…is a palimpsest, an overlay of classes and generations — Margaret Atwood > Oxford Reference ... f. palin again + psestos rubbed smooth Webster's 1913 Dictionary Palimpsest Pal"imp*sest, n. [L. palimpsestus, Gr. ? scratched or scraped again, ? a palimpsest; ? again + ? to rub, rub away: cf. F. palimpseste.] A parchment ...
... Testament times. Systematic erasure when vellum was scarce produced the palimpsest. V. Materials. The materials used in writing include almost every ... used for writing, including snake skin and human skin. The palimpsest is secondhand or erased vellum, written upon again. See PARCHMENT ... are preserved. See INK, INK-HORN. The reading of a palimpsest often depends on the kind of ink originally used and ...
... original work, previously known only from extracts in manuscripts, some palimpsest fragments were recovered from the Cairo Genizah in 1897 and ... century AD); C (Ephraemi rescriptus, Paris, probably 5th century), a palimpsest, the older Biblical matter underlying a medieval Greek text of ...
... nonfiction, nose count, official document, opus, order of business, original, palimpsest, paper, papers, papyrus, parchment, pen, pencil, penscript, personal file, piece ...
... generally accepted. Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (C). This is the great palimpsest (twice written) manuscript of the uncial group, and originally contained ...