Page - 12 - in The Vienna Genesis - Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment

12 The history of the Vienna Genesis and former interventions since 1664 in Italian Rotunda, used to bind the folios, can be seen in normal and Ultraviolet (UV) light, for example on folio 20, page 39 (Fig. 1). On this folio the text can be identified as the beginning of the first letter to the Corinthians by the apostle Paul, verses 1–104. The Italian Rotunda is dated to the late 14th or early 15th century by Mazal5. Pieces of parchment that were used for mending showed bills in Italian. These parchment pieces, mentioned by Wilhelm von Hartel, prefect of the Court Library and editor of the first facsimile, were probably removed and do no longer exist6. Merchants or crusaders might have brought the codex or parts of it from the Eastern Mediterranean to Italy. 4 Mazal, 1980, pp. 189–190. 5 Mazal, 1980, p. 190. 6 Hartel and Wickhoff, 1895, pp. 99–100. Fig. 1: Folio 20, page 39 in UV- light, transfer from a Latin manuscript. Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0