manuscript by the mathematician

A third century Greek manuscript by the mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse is being slowly examined as experts peel away centuries of damage. Some of the pages have been ripped or torn out completely. There are indications of a close-call with a fire, a 13th century scribe replaced it with prayers after scrubbing some of the original text away and unbinding then rebinding the text in a completely altered order. Hundreds of years later, a forger painted gilded pictures over the words.
It was originally found in 1910 in an Istanbul monastery where 80 percent was translated, however it was lost again. Much of it was lost to deterioration in the last century