Vatopedi Palimpsests Project

2018–present, St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai, Egypt. A collaboration of EMEL, St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai, and the UCLA Library to digitize the Monastery’s unparalleled manuscript library (including the New Finds) and publish the resulting images online with searchable metadata. Donors include the Ahmanson Foundation, Arcadia, the Steinmetz Family Foundation, and the Museum…

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

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…

2023, BnF, Paris France. Coming Soon! Our goals:

2013-present, Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria. EMEL is a long-term partner with the Austrian National Library and the Byzantine Research Division of Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences. EMEL provides spectral imaging and image processing to recover erased ancient texts on selected palimpsests. Funded by the Austrian Science Foundation. 2019 to present, the…

2012, David Livingstone Library, Scotland, UK. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.  The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project was a collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a series of faded, illegible texts produced by the famous Victorian explorer when stranded without ink or writing paper…