Digital Palimpsests: Mark in Trinity College Cambridge MS. O.9.27

The O.9.27 manuscript of Trinity College Cambridge is a minuscule manuscript of Hesiod’s . In a 2001 PhD thesis on Greek palimpsests in Cambridge by Natalie Tchernetska, this manuscript is described to contain two distinct lower scripts, one of which identified as a New Testament text. The author re...

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Published inOpen theology Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 107 - 115
Main Author Batovici, Dan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published De Gruyter 01.01.2019
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Gospel of Mark
lectionary
Palimpsest
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Summary:The O.9.27 manuscript of Trinity College Cambridge is a minuscule manuscript of Hesiod’s . In a 2001 PhD thesis on Greek palimpsests in Cambridge by Natalie Tchernetska, this manuscript is described to contain two distinct lower scripts, one of which identified as a New Testament text. The author read four lines and a partial fifth of the one-leaf palimpsest that contain Mark 1:44, which is remarkable considering that the washing made the lower script virtually the same colour as the page. This note re-examines the Markan lower script in O.9.27 and offers an account of the use of image processing software for the purpose to uncover more text in a difficult palimpsest, a method useful when MSI is not available.
ISSN:2300-6579
2300-6579
DOI:10.1515/opth-2019-0008