Enoch Palimpsest Spectral Imaging Project

2016, State Library of Berlin.

EMEL spectrally imaged a palimpsest that preserves rare early Ethiopic texts, including the oldest surviving copy of the Books of Enoch, the oldest non-biblical Ethiopic text, and several yet unidentified texts. Funded by the German Research Council.

EMEL applied spectral imaging to a rare Ethiopic palimpsest at the State Library of Berlin, revealing fragments from at least nine earlier codices, the majority of which date to the 14th century and before; several texts contain archaic linguistic features attested in only the earliest stratums of Ge’ez material evidence. Manuscripts represented include Enoch, Acts, an Old Testament lectionary, a homiliary, and multiple hagiographic codices.

https://www.nt2.evtheol.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/henoch/new-text/index.html

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