n.a recording medium that is used, then cleaned and reused one or more timesPosner 1974, 580A number of tablets are palimpsests; that is, the original entries were erased and replaced by new data.Roberts and Etherington 1982, 186palimpsest. A manuscript consisting of a later writing superimposed upon the original writing, which was first removed to the extent possible. . . . The word “palimpsest” derives from the Greek roots meaning “rub away again.” Also called “rescript.”Morris 1985, 509These records may be wiped clean and re-used in the course of efficient office practice. The re-used floppy will be the most opaque palimpsest of all.Posner 2003, 164These are diptychs or triptychs that were written on directly with ink, and in a sense most of them are palimpsests, that is, they were reused once or even several times.Ricci 2008, 437A palimpsest is uncovered, re-inscribed, and then re-read.Ricci 2008, 451When incomplete or previously undiscovered materials are compiled in DVDs, new palimpsests for the individual bits and new narratives about their wholeness within the history of cinema are presented to the public for the first time.Yaco 2015, 269A medium cleaned for reuse, a palimpsest, retains a ghost image of the old content—whether the medium is parchment or a VHS tape.Marchant 2022But the codex is a palimpsest: parchment that was scraped clean of older text by the scribe so that it could be reused.
