1. Introduction

Chapter 1 introduces Codex Climaci Rescriptus (CCR) as a 10th century palimpsest manuscript, whose parchment was recycled from earlier manuscripts containing Greek and Christian Palestinian Aramaic (CPA) texts. It outlines the history of the discovery of the manuscript, and gives a brief summary of the research carried out on the manuscript’s undertexts to date, including a summary of our current understanding of the eleven base manuscripts from which leaves were recycled for use in CCR. This is accompanied by a simple overview of multispectral imaging, and how these new imaging techniques are being used in the ongoing process of re-editing CCR’s erased texts.