Manuscript on parchment with multiple layers of writing (IMAGE)
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By using ultraviolet-fluorescence imaging, RIT students revealed that a 15th-century manuscript leaf held in RIT's Cary Graphic Arts Collection was actually a palimpsest, a manuscript on parchment with multiple layers of writing. The image on the left shows the document as it appears in visible light, while the image on the right was produced by the student-built imaging system.
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