Eléonore Cellard is a French scholar who specializes in Arabic palaeography and codicology, particularly Quranic manuscripts.[1] She started her research on the Quran in 2008. To do so, she learned the Arabic language and studied Arabic literature. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the Collège de France.[2]

Eleonore Cellard
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She discovered evidence of Coptic "lower text" (erased text) on a palimpsest page whose upper text was a page of an 8th century Quranic manuscript in Arabic. The Coptic writing was determined to be a portion of the biblical Book of Deuteronomy.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Flood, Alison (2018-04-25). "Passages from the Bible discovered behind Qur'an manuscript". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
  2. ^ Scarsi, Alice (2018-04-25). "'Extraordinary' manuscript shows Bible words ERASED to make room for Qur'an text". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-07.