Page - 45 - in The Vienna Genesis - Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment

Jiří Vnouček, Sarah Fiddyment, Abigail Quandt, Sophie Rabitsch, Matthew Collins, Christa Hofmann 45 ment is even thinner as low as 0.045 mm, while the thickness rarely exceeds 0.200 mm. The average thickness of the parchment of the individual 24 folios of the Vienna Genesis ranges from 0.108 mm to 0.168 mm26. The thickness of each folio was measured at 12 points around the margins (Fig. 5) using a Mitutoyo micrometer (MDC-SX). The average thickness of folios 1–24 is recorded in Table 1. Folio 20 is the thinnest and folio 4 the thick- est sheet in the group. Table 1: Average thickness measurements, folios 1–24. Folio Average thickness (12 points were measured on each folio) f 1 0.148 mm f 2 0.141 mm f 3 0.144 mm f 4 0.168 mm f 5 0.149 mm f 6 0.164 mm f 7 0.157 mm f 8 0.158 mm f 9 0.129 mm f 10 0.119 mm f 11 0.133 mm f 12 0.120 mm f 13 0.151 mm f 14 0.128 mm f 15 0.108 mm f 16 0.118 mm f 17 0.125 mm f 18 0.116 mm f 19 0.120 mm f 20 0.103 mm f 21 0.110 mm f 22 0.113 mm f 23 0.112 mm f 24 0.108 mm 26 These measurements have to be considered with caution, as both sides of the Vienna Genesis folios were treated with parchment glue in the past. Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0