A team of researchers from the University of Glasgow recently announced the discovery of 42 lost pages from an important New Testament manuscript. Codex H is a sixth-century manuscript that contains the letters of the apostle Paul. According to the announcement from the University of Glasgow, Codex H was “lost to history when it was disassembled at the Great Lavra Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece, in the 13th century. Its pages were re-inked and reused as binding material and flyleaves for multiple other manuscripts. Today, the surviving fragments are scattered across libraries in Italy, Greece, Russia, Ukraine, and France.” The researchers used multispectral imaging to recover the “ghost” text, the traces of which remained, despite being invisible to the naked eye. The recovered text provides the earliest known examples of chapters for Paul’s epistles, which differ from modern chapter divisions.
Source: https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1263245_en.html
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