Hidden 15th-Century Text On Medieval Manuscripts – Discovered By Students

By using ultraviolet-fluorescence imaging, RIT students revealed that a 15th-century manuscript leaf held in RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection was actually a palimpsest, a manuscript on parchment with multiple layers of writing. The image on the left shows the document as it appears in visible light, while the image on the right was produced by the student-built imaging system. Credit: Rochester Institute of Technology

 In medieval times, it was very expensive to make parchments, so leaves were regularly scraped or erased and re-used over and over again. In the process, many valuable writings were lost.

Now, students from Rochester Institute of Technology have managed to decipher the lost text on 15th-century manuscript sheets using ultraviolet-fluorescence imaging.

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