New Light on Old Manuscripts

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New Light on Old Manuscripts: Recent Advances in Palimpsest Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, April 25–27, 2018

“New Light on Old Manuscripts: Recent Advances in Palimpsest Studies” brings together an international assembly of scholars who have been in the forefront of palimpsest studies in recent years, either in reading and analyzing palimpsests texts, or in making them legible through advanced imaging and image processing methods. The conference will also feature work that has been accomplished in the court of the Sinai Palimpsests Project.

PROGRAM

In conjunction with the conference, Father Justin Sinaites (Librarian, Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai) will offer the lecture “The Sinai Palimpsests: Recovering Ancient Texts and the Early History of the Monastery” on April 24 (5:00 pm) in the “BIG Lecture Hall” at the University of Vienna.