One of the finest examples of this latter kind of palimpsest brasses is a specimen which was made to honour the memory of Sir Walter and Lady Curson, at Waterperry, Oxon.
In 1762 Knettel discovered and published from a Palimpsest MS.
Mai has since that time discovered further fragments, and other remains of Moeso-Gothic literature, from a Palimpsestat Milan.
Footnote 411: Some valuable fragments of a poetical panegyric on Aetius by Merobaudes, a Spaniard, have been recovered from a palimpsest MS.
II at St. Petersburg, consists of palimpsest fragments found by Tischendorf in 1853 "in the dust of an Eastern library," i.
Two palimpsest leaves at the end cursive in later [xv], John xx.
In thispalimpsest as at present bound up in the Museum the fragments of St. Luke end on f.
Of less account are palimpsestpieces of the eleventh century on some of the leaves, containing Matt.
So intensive was the grime that the original dark hue of their skins offered no camouflage to the anthracite palimpsest which overlaid it.
But though in some cases the original writing was still visible on close observation, no practical use was made of such inspection till Angelo Mai published some fragments recovered from palimpsest MSS.
Palimpsest has been given--a term made use of by Cicero himself.
But our map-palimpsest has further physical facts to reveal which had an important influence on the civic and economic development of Cambridge.
Which element he considered the more dangerous is not on the palimpsest that records the story of these days.
We shall judge later, after viewing thepalimpsest of history here, following on the palimpsest of Nature, for the Cordillera is a scroll of time, erased, rewritten in the physical and in the human world.
Codices Ambrosiani, or palimpsest fragments of five manuscripts, apparently like Cod.
C, where the testimony of that precious palimpsest can be had.
Hardly anyone else mentions this person, and his work had disappeared until Mai found pieces of it in a palimpsest at Naples which had come from Bobbio.
There is a volume at Vienna, from Bobbio, made up of palimpsest leaves from many MSS.
I conjecture that there is no important palimpsest whose upper writing is later than the eleventh century.
Hence arose the making of palimpsest brasses, the carvers using an old brass and on the reverse side cutting a memorial of a more recently deceased person.
In the same passage he used an incorrect adjective, Phliuntii for Phliasii; he says that he had already corrected his own copy, but the mistake survives in the single palimpsest in which this work has been preserved.
A palimpsest containing fragments of various orations was recently destroyed by the fire at the Turin library.
The Vatican also possesses an important palimpsest of the Verrines (Reg.
There wasn't any thought of Eyes in the erased palimpsest that was Glenn Tropile's mind.
But they werepalimpsest personalities on which the Pyramids had programmed their duties.
This, I think, is a more probable, as well as a more charitable explanation than the one usually given of the so-called palimpsest brasses.
What else than a natural and mighty palimpsest is the human brain?
Such a palimpsestis my brain; such a palimpsest, O reader!
Mrs. Lewis says: "The Sinai Palimpsestalso tells us that Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem, to be enrolled there, because they were both of the house and lineage of David.
The strict and precise sense of Palimpsest is therefore ‘twice prepared for writing;’ the repetition of such preparation being the prevailing idea in the etymology, and not erasure, as some have erroneously supposed.
Specimen of a Palimpsest copy of Cicero’s “Republic” in the Vatican Library.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palimpsest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
