Daniel Bellingradt on Nostr: This is how a page from a medieval #manuscript looks when its original text had been ...
This is how a page from a medieval #manuscript looks when its original text had been scraped off by someone, overwritten with a new text, and then later, a 19th-century scholar discovered the #palimpsest and tried to make the undertext's ink visible again by painting the page with chemical reagents. #bookhistory #histodons
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