C. Falluomini - S. Brenner - B. Frühmann, “New Light on the Gothic Palimpsest from Bologna”, in New Light on Old Manuscripts: The Sinai Palimpsests and Other Advances in Palimpsest Studies, ed. by C. Rapp, G. Rossetto et al., Wien 2023 (Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung 45), 373-383. (original) (raw)
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updated: 22.01.2021. This number does not include the over 100 palimpsest fragments from the fragments collection of the Monastery, which were surveyed and documented by Damianos Kasotakis from March to May 2020. 2 On the language distribution among the overtexts and the undertexts, see Rapp, Secluded Place or Global Magnet? and Rapp's contribution to this volume. 3 The exact total number of Sinai manuscripts was indicated to me by Father Justin Sinaites (personal communication, February 2021). See also Frøyshov, Les manuscrits de la bibliothèque du Sinaï, 61. 4 The latter term was used during the Sinai Palimpsests Project. 5 As far as the Sinai palimpsests are concerned, only in few cases was one textual unit or UTO copied by more than one hand. This happens for texts of documentary nature, such as those extant as scriptiones inferiores in Sin. ar. NF 8 (Diktyon 58318). 6 The Appendix indicates the names of the scholars who identified the texts which I take into consideration in this article.
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