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1/ 4. We often claim that #palimpsest are rare in Qur’ān scribal culture. Perhaps, in fact, they are many more than we think. Perhaps we have not seen them yet…
2/4. This morning, I was looking again at the UNESCO pictures of the Ṣan‘ā’ collection and came across another possible case of palimpsest. I’m not sure of that because of the quality of these images, it’s just a strong intuition I'd like to share with you 
3/4. We know 4 pictures/pages of this manuscript. All seem palimpsests. The Qur’ān written in the upper text is perhaps from the 9th or 10th CE. The erased text is Arabic, certainly also Qur’ānic, and not much older than the upper text.
4/4. Therefore, here is maybe another palimpsest, once more in the collection of the Ṣan‘ā’ mosque. We can’t go further for now. But one day, when the library Dār al-maḫtūtāt will reopen, don’t forget your equipement for multispectral imaging !
