It's true that the manuscript was written over by a monk to create a copy of his churches dogma, but I seriously doubt it was a deliberate attempt to erase knowledge in the name of said dogma.
Parchment was scarce in those days and the monk probably thought he was just covering over some math book in order to present what was, in his opinion, a greater truth.
I've covered many math books with prayer in my schooling years. I don't blame the monk.
I still hope they recover the lost knowledge of archemedes. The text in question is the only one known to exist of his actual formuli. That would be cool.
Love and light,
Wupy
) was also quite common in the art of that period. Canvasses were painted over; large sculptures were cut into
smaller ones. 
