undertext

English

Etymology

under +‎ text

Noun

undertext (plural undertexts)

  1. Text situated below overlying text, such as on a palimpsest.
    • 2007, Reviel Netz & William Noel, The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist, Da Capo Press (2007), →ISBN, unnamed page:
      The problem is that many of the letters in the undertext of the Palimpsest cannot be read, […]
    • 2009, Janet Soskice, The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels, Knopf (2009), →ISBN, page 125:
      […] Agnes reckoned that for the vellum to have been reused in this fashion, the undertext must date to at least 200 years before the overwriting.
    • 2011, Michael Woods & Mary B. Woods, Ancient Machine Technology: From Wheels to Forges, Twenty-First Century Books (2011), →ISBN, page 81:
      He noticed that one of the manuscripts had some ancient Greek “undertext” beneath the religious writing.
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