Open Theology (Jul 2019)

Digital Palimpsests: Mark in Trinity College Cambridge MS. O.9.27

  • Batovici Dan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2019-0008
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 107 – 115

Abstract

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The O.9.27 manuscript of Trinity College Cambridge is a minuscule manuscript of Hesiod’s Opera et Dies. In a 2001 PhD thesis on Greek palimpsests in Cambridge by Natalie Tchernetska, this manuscript is described to contain two distinct lower scripts, one of which identified as a New Testament text. The author read four lines and a partial fifth of the one-leaf palimpsest that contain Mark 1:44, which is remarkable considering that the washing made the lower script virtually the same colour as the page. This note re-examines the Markan lower script in O.9.27 and offers an account of the use of image processing software for the purpose to uncover more text in a difficult palimpsest, a method useful when MSI is not available.

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