Page - 130 - in The Vienna Genesis - Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment

130 The silver inks of the Vienna Genesis spectra of the silver inks were of greater interest. Therefore, further characterisation of the silver inks of the codex was undertaken by a comparison with several reference inks. As it will be described in greater detail in the chapter on the alteration study, a series of 13 samples was prepared. 14 different reference inks (ST1-ST14, according to historic recipes) Fig. 10: XRF spectra of the parchment (MP23_8, purple) and the silver ink (MP23_9, grey) on folio 23v. Fig. 11: Comparison of the XRF spectra of the silver ink on folio 1r (MP1_2, grey) and the silver ink on folio 12v (MP12_9, blue). Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0