Noun:

वह कागज आदि जिसकी मूल लिपि दूसरी लिखने के लिए मिटा दी गई हो,

palimpsest's Usage Examples:

55-64) from a palimpsest of the 6th century.

C, von Soden S 3; an uncial palimpsest (the top writing being that of Ephraem) of the 5th century.

An independent value attaches to the ancient palimpsest of Verona, of which the first complete account was given by Mommsen in Abhandl.

The episcopal palace contains the ancient and valuable chapter library, of about 12,000 volumes and over 500 MSS., among them the palimpsest of the Institutiones of Gaius which Niebuhr discovered.

The Vatican also possesses an important palimpsest of the Verrines (Reg.

A palimpsest containing fragments of various orations was recently destroyed by the fire at the Turin library.

The letters, together with the other fragments in the palimpsest, were published at Rome in 1823.

In that year, however, Angelo Mai discovered in the Ambrosian library at Milan a palimpsest manuscript (and, later, some additional sheets of it in the Vatican), on which had been originally written some of Fronto's letters to his royal pupils and their replies.

1 have been discovered in a palimpsest MS. in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris (Latin coll., No.

Naber (1867), with an account of the palimpsest; see also G.

Synonyms:

holograph, manuscript,