"In partnership with the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (EMEL), researchers used multispectral imaging to process images of the extant pages, in order to recover 'ghost' text that no longer physically exists, effectively retrieving multiple pages of information from every single physical page."
"The breakthrough arrived when the team, led by the divinity and biblical criticism professor Garrick Allen, realized that at one point in time the manuscript had been re-inked. This meant that chemicals in the reapplied ink had been transferred onto neighboring leaves."
Between the 10th and 13th centuries, monks at the Great Lavra Monastery reused pages from a 6th-century manuscript, Codex H, leading to its effective disappearance. Researchers from the University of Glasgow have recovered 42 lost pages of this manuscript, which contains the Letters of St. Paul, using multispectral imaging. This technology revealed 'ghost impressions' of the original text, created when the manuscript was re-inked. Collaboration with experts ensured the historical accuracy of the findings through radiocarbon dating of the parchment.
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