Conference: New Light on Old Manuscripts; Recent Advances in Palimpsest Studies
25–27 April 2018
Austrian Academy of Sciences Sitzungssaal Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2 1010 Vienna, Austria
“New Light on Old Manuscripts: Recent Advances in Palimpsest Studies” brings together an international assembly of scholars who have been in the forefront of palimpsest studies in recent years, either in reading and analyzing palimpsests texts, or in making them legible through advanced imaging and image processing methods. The conference will also feature work that has been accomplished in the course of the Sinai Palimpsests Project (http://sinaipalimpsests.org).
See full programme here: https://rchivecom.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/palimpsests-conference-programme-25-27-2018.pdf
Programme:
WEDNESDAY, 25 APRIL 2018
09:00–10:30 Moderator: Otto Kresten
Michael B. Phelps – The Sinai Palimpsests Project: its History, Philosophy, and Contributions
Claudia Rapp – The Palimpsest Corpus at St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Preliminary Observations
Giulia Rossetto – Greek under Arabic: Behind the Lines of Sinaiticus arabicus NF 66
10:30–11:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:00–12:30 Moderator: Otto Kresten
Pasquale Orsini – Greek Scripts, Books and Texts: New Materials from Sinai
Agamemnon Tselikas – Textual Observations on Some Sinai Majuscule Palimpsests
Steve Delamarter – Getatchew Haile The Ethiopic Undertext of Sinai Greek NF 90: Discovery and Analysis
12:30–14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00–14:45 Moderator: Manfred Schreiner
Damianos Kasotakis – Implementing Spectral Imaging in the Sinai Desert
Kenneth Boydston – Beyond Discovery: Bringing More Good Things to Light
14:45–15:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK
15:00–16:00 Moderator: Manfred Schreiner
Keith T. Knox – Recovery of Erased Text Using Unsupervised Methods
Roger L. Easton Jr. – Customized Processing of Multispectral Imagery of Palimpsests Based on Spectral Statistics
Dave Kelbe – Is it Magic? The Science Behind Image Processing: Perspectives and Possibilities
16:00–16:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK
16:30–17:15 Moderator: Bernadette Frühmann
Michael B. Toth – Dispersed Palimpsest Offers Digital Insight into St. Catherine’s Library
Doug Emery – Reflections on the Digital Palimpsest: Data Modeling and Data Management
THURSDAY, 26 APRIL 2018
09:00–10:00 Moderator: Ernst Gamillscheg
Sebastian P. Brock – What Can Be Learnt, and What Not, from the Experience of the Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic Palimpsests
Grigory Kessel – Codex Arabicus (Sinai Arabic 514) Revisited
10:00–10:15 REFRESHMENT BREAK
10:15–11:30 Moderator: Basema Hamarneh
Christa Müller-Kessler – A Florilegium of Christian Palestinian Aramaic Palimpsests from St. Catherine’s Monastery
Alain J. Desreumaux – L’apport des palimpsestes du Sinaï à la codicologie araméenne christopalestinienne et aux versions anciennes des textes bibliques
11:30–12:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK
12:00–13:00 Moderator: Kurt Smolak
Michelle P. Brown – Arabic NF 8 and the Latin Manuscripts of St. Catherine’s, Sinai
Heinz Miklas – ‘Excavating’ the Slavonic Palimpsests in the New Sinaitic Finds
13:00–14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30–16:00 Moderator: Hans-Jürgen Feulner
Zaza Aleksidze – Dali Chitunashvili Palimpsest N/Sin Geo 7 Kept at the St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai (Identification of the Texts)
Bernard Outtier – New Insights in Christo-Palestinian Aramaic and Georgian Literatures
Jost Gippert – New Light on the Caucasian Albanian Palimpsests of St. Catherine’s Monastery
16:00–16:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK
16:30–18:00 Moderator: Katharina Kaska
Irmgard Schuler – Imaging for Manuscript Inspection
Simon Brenner – Photometric Stereo for Palimpsest Analysis
Leif Glaser – X-Ray Fluorescence Investigations on Erased Text Written in Iron Gall Ink
Ivan Shevchuk – Full Field Multispectral Imaging as a Tool for Text Recovery in Palimpsests
18:30 DINNER FOR INVITED GUESTS
FRIDAY, 27 APRIL 2018
09:00–11:00 Moderator: Andreas E. Müller
Felix Albrecht – Chiara Francesca Faraggiana di Sarzana – A Carbonized Septuagint Palimpsest of the Libri Sapientiales in Biblical Majuscule, Codex Taurinensis, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, C.V. 25 (Rahlfs-Ms. 3010): Its Text and Context
Jana Grusková – Giuseppe De Gregorio – Neueste Einblicke in einige palimpsestierte Handschriftenunikate aus den griechischen Beständen der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek
Bernard H. Stolte – Editing the Basilica and the Role of Palimpsests. The Case of Vindob. Suppl. gr. 200
11:00–11:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:30–13:00 Moderator: Christian Gastgeber
Dieter Harlfinger – Palimpsest-Forschung am Beispiel der Athener Handschrift EBE 192 mit juristischen Texten und Aristoteles-Kommentaren
André Binggeli – The Making of a Greek Palimpsest from the Patriarchal Library in Istanbul
Carla Falluomini – The Gothic Palimpsests: New Readings and Discoveries
13:00–14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30–16:00 Moderator: Bernhard Palme
Peter E. Pormann – The Syriac Galen Palimpsest: Between Philology and Digital Humanities
Ronny Vollandt – Palimpsests from Cairo and Damascus: A Comparative Perspective from the Cairo Genizah and the Qubbat al-Khazna
Alba Fedeli – A Few Remarks on Qur’anic Palimpsests
16:00–16:15 REFRESHMENT BREAK
16:15–17:45 Moderator: Gerda Wolfram
Andreas Janke – Challenges in Working with Music Palimpsests
András Németh – Interactive Learning of Palimpsest Research: Virtual Guided Tour from the Invisible to the Abstract Reconstruction
Gregory Heyworth – From Technology to Text: Reading and Editing the Lacunose Manuscript
17:45–18:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK
18:00–18:30 Discussion and Concluding Remarks
