Pre-Columbian Palimpsest
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The Codex Selden (also known as 'Codex Añute') is a pre-Columbian manuscript written on coated deer skin preserved in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. It has been long known that this manuscript was written over a mostly erased earlier manuscript. Scientists using a technique called hyperspectral imaging are now beginning to recover the earlier previously unreadable underwriting. Researchers take very high-resolution images at many different wavelengths of light. The multiple images can then be added and subtracted against each other to reveal the ghosts beneath a manuscript's surface and with further computer enhancements can start to identify the text.
The project is in its early stages and researchers hope to eventually scan the entire manuscript. Early results are very exciting and show the hidden manuscript was written in a different style from any of the others that have survived.
The story has been reported in a number of on-line articles.
The original announcement can be found reported in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. (Volume 9, October 2016, Pages 143–149.).
Using hyperspectral imaging to reveal a hidden precolonial Mesoamerican codex
- abstract.
The project is in its early stages and researchers hope to eventually scan the entire manuscript. Early results are very exciting and show the hidden manuscript was written in a different style from any of the others that have survived.
The story has been reported in a number of on-line articles.
The original announcement can be found reported in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. (Volume 9, October 2016, Pages 143–149.).
Using hyperspectral imaging to reveal a hidden precolonial Mesoamerican codex
- abstract.
