On 8 Feb 2006 13:05:23 -0800, "izzy" <cohen.izzy@gmail.com> wrote:
>My best guess is that you are looking for this word:
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>palimpsest
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>a manuscript which has been re-used by scraping off the original text
>and writing over the top
>medievalwriting.50megs.com/glossary2.htm
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>A manuscript on which an earlier text has been effaced and the vellum
>or parchment reused for another. It was a common practice, particularly
>in medieval ecclesiastical circles, to rub out an earlier piece of
>writing by means of washing or scraping the manuscript, in order to
>prepare it for a new text.
>www.lynnerutter.com/glossary.html
>
>>From the Greek palimpsestos ("scraped again"), a palimpsest is reused
>writing support material from which theunderlying text has been erased
>(by washing in the case of papyrus and by using scraping devices in the
>case of parchment). Erasure was not always complete and an underlying
>text can often be read with the assistance of ultraviolet light.
>www.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/MMM/glossary.html
>
>A manuscript written on a surface from which one or more earlier
>writings have been erased as completely as possible. Sometimes known as
>Rescript.
>bibliomania.net/Glossary.html
>
>Israel "izzy" Cohen
Thanks izzy.
That was the word.
Stitch
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