Noun:

அழித்து எழுதத்தக்க வரையும் மூலப் பொருள்,

palimpsest's Usage Examples:

It is on his skill as a reader of palimpsests that Mai's fame chiefly rests.

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

Fragments of the lost speeches pro Tullio and pro Scauro were discovered in two Milan and Turin palimpsests.

) of the 6th century, a palimpsest which once belonged to the monks of Fleury, and by the so-called speculum (m) or collection of quotations formerly attributed to Augustine but probably connected with Spain.

These palimpsests had originally belonged to the famous convent of St Columba at Bobbio, and had been written over by the monks with the acts of the first council of Chalcedon.

of any speeches, or indeed of any work of Cicero's, apart from the palimpsests, belongs to the Chapter-house of St Peter's in Rome (H.

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.

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

And, when you watch the tapes, there are also visual palimpsests.

When we attempt to decipher the physical history of the country from the complicated record afforded by the stratigraphical palimpsest, we are checked at the outset by the dearth of information from being able to picture the geographical condition in the older Palaeozoic periods.

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

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

Synonyms:

holograph, manuscript,

Antonyms:

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