ABOUT THE ARCHIMEDES PALIMPSEST The Archimedes Palimpsest is a medieval parchment manuscript, now consisting of 174 parchment folios. While it contains no less than seven treatises by Archimedes, calling it the Archimedes Palimpsest is a little confusing. As it is now, the manuscript is a Byzantine prayerbook, written in Greek, and technically called a euchologion. This euchologion was completed by April 1229, and was probably made in Jerusalem. The prayer book, or Euchologion, is itself of some interest, and further information on its contents can be discovered in this website. However, to make their prayer book, the scribes used parchment that had already been used for the writings of other books. The books they took parchment from were as follows. https://youtube/watch?v=GtlPufbaCLg * ABOVE QUOTE: ABOUT THE ARCHIMEDES PALIMPSEST Read more here: archimedespalimpsest.org/about/
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