Eleonore Cellard

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
Academic background
Alma mater	INALCO (BA, MA, PhD) École normale supérieure (BA) Catholic University of Paris (BA)
Academic work
Discipline	Arabic studies
Sub-discipline	Quranic studies Codicology Arabic palaeography

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]