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50 The parchment of the Vienna Genesis: characteristics and manufacture
likely caused these patterns, which were also observed on new parchment samples, see
chapter on purple dyeing. In the upper right corner of folio 2, an original edge of the
parchment after re-stretching is preserved (Fig. 12). Fig. 10: Fibrous appearance of
the flesh side of the
parchment on folio 1,
page 2.
Fig. 11: Reconstruction of the
location of pins (black
dots) used for stretch-
ing of a coloured
bifolio of the Vienna
Genesis (above); detail
of tension lines from
stretching of parch-
ment in transmitted
light (below).
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The Vienna Genesis
Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment
- Title
- The Vienna Genesis
- Subtitle
- Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment
- Editor
- Christa Hofmann
- Publisher
- Böhlau Verlag
- Location
- Wien
- Date
- 2020
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-205-21058-0
- Size
- 17.3 x 24.5 cm
- Pages
- 348