[gothic-l] surviving gothic manuscripts; Gendler

[Magnus Hreinn Snaedal]

>
>I understood that a palimpsest is a parchment which has been scraped blank
and
>re-used. If so, in these palimpsests, is the Gothic the old writing or the
>current writing? If it is the old writing,:-
>- What has been written over them?

Various latin texts.

>- How badly is legibility of the Gothic affected by the scraping and by
>obliteration by the newer writing on top of it?
>
It is varying. See the faximile:

Wulfilae Codices Gotici Ambrosiani ... ed. Jan de Vries, 1936.

M.Sn.



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