Sinai Palimpsests Project
To survey and digitize palimpsest manuscripts in the library of St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.
The Sinai Palimpsests Project is using state-of-the-art spectral imaging to recover erased texts from palimpsest manuscripts in the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai, the world’s oldest continually operating monastery. The monastery holds an exceptional collection of more than 160 palimpsests, the erased layers of which preserve unstudied texts from the 4th to the 12th century.
Project Details
Location: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Organiser(s):
Early Manuscripts Electronic Library
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: $2,232,000
Commencement Date: 01/2009
Project Status: Completed
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