When: Thu, 07.10.2021 10:00 AM until Fri, 08.10.2021 6:15 PM
Where: Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, online
One of the most fascinating features of manuscripts is their openness to different types of transformations introduced by their users. More often than not, manuscript books acquire ‘layers’ of
annotations, corrections, or other modifications at some point during their ‘life’. The phenomenon known as palimpsesting is one of the most radical ways in which a manuscript can be transformed. It not only implies the erasure of one or all parts of a manuscript’s contents but may
even result in its complete disintegration. Instead of ceasing to exist, however, the dismembered
parts usually find their way into other manuscripts, hence establishing a mostly hidden and fortuitous connection between two or even more written artefacts.
In recent years, the development of new technologies has provided more accurate methods to
study palimpsested manuscripts, rendering accessible the otherwise invisible scriptio inferior. At
the same time, refinements in the concept of manuscripts as evolving entities (Andrist/Canart/Maniaci 2013 and Friedrich/Schwarke 2016) provide further analytical tools for a better understanding and conceptualisation of palimpsests as complex written artefacts (re)created in
the course of a special production process. With the present workshop – a continuation and expansion of a smaller virtual event on palimpsests organised by the Cluster in December 2020 –
we aim to bring together experts from different fields and disciplines and encourage discussion
on the essentials of palimpsests and related phenomena from a cross-cultural perspective.
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Programme
7 October 2021
Session 1: 10:00 am – 01:00 pm (Chair: Jost Gippert)
10:00-10:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:15-11:00 Felix Albrecht (Göttingen), Greek Psalter Palimpsests: An Overview
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:15 Jana Grusková (Vienna/Bratislava), Editorial Approaches to a Palimpsest
12:15-01:00 Kaja Harter-Uibopuu (Hamburg), Palimpsests in Greco-Roman Funerary
Epigraphy
01:00-02:30 Lunch break
Session 2: 02:30 pm – 04:00 pm (Chair: José Maksimczuk)
02:30-03:15 Elena Trifilova (Moscow), The Experience of Studying a Paper Palimpsest from
the Collections of the Department of Manuscripts of the Russian State Library
03:15-04:00 Halle O’Neal (Edinburgh), Intentional Erasures: Memorial Palimpsests of Medi-
eval Japan
04:00-04:30 Coffee break
Session 3: 04:30 pm – 07:00 pm (Chair: Thies Staack)
04:30-05:15 Andreas Janke (Hamburg), Advances in Music Palimpsest Research
05:15-06:00 Ivan Shevchuk and Kyle Ann Huskin (Hamburg), Poking and Prodding the Pix-
els: Struggling to Recover Text in the Most Difficult Palimpsests – and When to
Give up
06:00-06:15 Break
06:15-07:00 Michael Phelps (Rolling Hills Estates), The Sinai Palimpsests Project Five Years
Later: Status Report and Recommendations
07:30 Conference Dinner
8 October 2021
Session 4: 10:00 am – 12:45 pm (Chair: Andreas Janke)
10:00-10:45 Bernard Outtier (Lavau), The Richest Source of Georgian Palimpsests
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:00 Dali Chitunashvili (Tbilisi), Arabic-Georgian Palimpsests from Dagestan
12:00-12:45 Jost Gippert (Hamburg), Palimpsests and Codicology: Reconstructing Disinte-
grated Codices
12:45-02:00 Lunch break
Session 5: 02:00 pm – 05:00 pm (Chair: Caroline Macé)
02:00-02:15 Gurgen Gasparyan (Yerevan), The Matenadaran Palimpsests Project
02:15-03:00 Erich Renhart (Graz), The Palimpsests of Graz University Library (Ms. 2058/2).
On the Way to its Full Edition
03:00-03:45 Christa Müller-Kessler (Jena), The Trials and Tribulations of a Palimpsest
Reader
03:45-04:15 Coffee break
04:15-05:00 Grigory Kessel (Princeton), Two Palimpsest Fragments of Sinai Geo. 49 and
Their Four Syriac Undertexts
05:00-05:15 Break
05:15-06:00 Axel Malik, Intervention Palimpsests
06:00-06:15 Closing remarks