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Title: Recovering Hidden Texts: Palimpsests of the Matenadaran and their Disclosure
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Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS)
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Editor-in-Chief Aram Topchyan ; Managing Editor Ani Shahnazaryan
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On the basis of four sample cases, the present article illustrates the prospects of the application of multispectral imaging to the study of palimpsests that are preserved in the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (Matenadaran) in Yerevan. Taking into account the different physical structures of the samples, which comprise an isolated fragment (no. 647), two flyleaves (of manuscripts M2154 and M3938), and a fully palimpsested codex (manuscript M2130), it outlines the variety of Old Armenian materials in erkatʻagir script that were palimpsested, ranging from a colophon (M3938) via the History of Armenia by Movsēs Khorenatsʻi (M2154) and the Commentary on the Psalms by Theodoretus of Cyrrhus (Fragment no. 647) up to the treatise Against Heresies by Irenaeus of Lyon (M2130), and the insight into the history of the texts and the Armenian language that can be gained from these materials.
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Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts
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Nov 6, 2025
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Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS)
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Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS), 2024, Vol 1, N 1
- Editorial Board
- Contents
- Introduction
- Recovering Hidden Texts: Palimpsests of the Matenadaran and their Disclosure
- The “Thrice- An Angelic Liturgical Formula in Jewish and Christian Traditions
- Echoes of the Definitions Ascribed to Plato in a Medieval Armenian Compendium
- The Oracles in an 11th-Century Armenian Manuscript (Yerevan, Matenadaran, No. 9650)
- Irénée de Lyon, lecteur des Présocratiques ?
- David et les modes de division : une analyse comparative du chapitre 21 des Prolégomènes à la philosophie
- The Armenian Text of Philo’s De Abrahamo 1‑16
- Uncovering Theological Inconsistencies in the History of Agathangelos
- The Context of Kingship: Armeno-Georgian Claims and Rule in the 12 th‑13 th Centuries
- Newly Discovered Miniature Fragments of the “Etchmiadzin Gospel Group”
- Michael E. Stone and Aram Topchyan, Jews in Ancient and Medieval Armenia: First Century BCE to Fourteenth Century CE, Oxford University Press, 2022
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Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS), 2024, Vol 1, N 2
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Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS), 2024, Vol 1, N 1
| Edition name | Date |
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| Jost Gippert, Recovering Hidden Texts: Palimpsests of the Matenadaran and their Disclosure | Nov 6, 2025 |
