Recovering Texts

[billroper]

According to this article, a medieval manuscript that had already yielded up other more ancient documents has now been found to contain at least part of a commentary on Aristotle.

Comments

[madfilkentist]

Wow! It's not often that texts are preserved by recycling them!

[kestrels-nest.livejournal.com]

That is incredible. So are the time-spans involved for the materials. The palimpsest website says at least one of the books cannibalized is from the 4th C. BCE. I dare anyone to use modern paper 1700 years after it was first made!

[janeg.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for that link! I will bet that a lot more medieval texts will be imaged now, and who knows what more will be found.

[catalana.livejournal.com]

Interesting. We don't have a lot of commentaries on the Categories, so it'll be interesting to see what people have to say.