Untersuchungen Zu Den Griechischen Palimpsesten Der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek: Codices Historici Codices Philosophici Et Philologici Codices [German]

by Jana Gruskova

English summary: Parchment, the writing material prepared from animal skin in late antiquity and in the medieval period, has been costly at all times, and therefore texts that had become expendable for any reason were removed by being scraped or washed off to recover the valuable material for a second use in writing new texts. Parchments reused in this way are called palimpsests nowadays.The present book offers new results from the study of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: German
• ISBN: 3700168020
• ISBN13: 9783700168027
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
• Length: 169 Pages