Palimpsests in Danger Project
2022-2024, Fondazione Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona ETS, Italy.
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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…
2024–present, Vatopedi Monastery, Mt. Athos, Greece. Coming Soon!
2006 – 2009, Funded by the Seaver Institute. EMEL worked with Stokes Imaging of Austin, Texas, to develop a computer-controlled cradle which supports fragile manuscripts during digitization and which improves efficiency and lowers costs for the digitization of large collections of precious manuscripts. This system is now installed at: • St. Catherine’s Monastery of the…
2018-2020, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, United Kingdom. A collaboration of EMEL, Cambridge University Library, and the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at Birmingham University. The project is led by Professor David Parker (Principal Investigator) and Dr Hugh Houghton (Co-Investigator) and is funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Grant. The erased…
2013, Austrian National Library. Funded by the Austrian Science Foundation. Five unique Ancient Greek and Byzantine textual witnesses of great importance were imaged from palimpsests within the rescripti Vindobonenses. Imaging techniques included spectral reflective, fluorescence and transmissive modes. Austrian National Library – Division of Byzantine Research
2014, The Vatican Library. Funded by the Classics Conclave, Oxford. In 2003, nearly 200 verses of an unknown comedy of Menander, a Greek dramatist (c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) were discovered in a palimpsest in the Vatican library. The verses by Menander are the oldest layer of writing in a double palimpsest, i.e., a…