The revised version of the New Testament, with a history of the present and former . ^. o A SPECIMEN FROM A PALIMPSEST MANUSCRIPT. that is, a manuscript in which two different works are found, the onehaving been written over the other. The practice originated in thescarcity and dearness of parchment during the middle ages. Valuableworks were, in this way, often sacrificed to others which were compara-tively worthless. This manuscript was taken to pieces, the letters as faras possible obliterated, and the leaves used for a copy of the Greek Ser-mons of Ephraim. It was not for a cons
The revised version of the New Testament, with a history of the present and former . ^. o A SPECIMEN FROM A PALIMPSEST MANUSCRIPT. that is, a manuscript in which two different works are found, the onehaving been written over the other. The practice originated in thescarcity and dearness of parchment during the middle ages. Valuableworks were, in this way, often sacrificed to others which were compara-tively worthless. This manuscript was taken to pieces, the letters as faras possible obliterated, and the leaves used for a copy of the Greek Ser-mons of Ephraim. It was not for a considerable period that the sacredtext was discovered, and only in 1834 was it rendered generally legibleby the application of a chemical tincture. The manuscript was soonI fter published. It is now preserved in the National Library at far as it has survived it is a very valuable copy of the New Testament. D, or the Manuscript of Beza. This manuscript once belonged to theeminent reformer, Beza, and hence its name. It was presented by himin 1581 to the University of Cambridge, and on t
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