Scribes often scraped off existing text to overwrite new content, resulting in palimpsests—manuscripts bearing traces of previous writings. The hidden text is a fragment of the Old Syriac ...

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The discovery is part of the Old Syriac version of the Bible - known as the Peshitta, and preserved today in just four manuscripts, both of which are plagued by gaps. Researchers believe this ...

Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval ... In the example above, a text in Syriac overlays a ninth-century translation of a page from a medical treatise by the ...