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250 Conservation of the Vienna Genesis and the new storage system
The parchment of the folios shows planar distor-
tions (Fig. 4), while mechanical deformation can be
observed especially in the text area. On some folios
additional small, parallel, horizontal undulations are
noticeable. Due to the mounting between acrylic
sheets these distortions were not very pronounced
and they remained so after opening the mounts. An-
other phenomenon is the presence of dark, parallel,
horizontal stripes on many folios (Fig. 5). They only
occur in the areas above, below or within the text
area. The parchment does not seem to be thicker in
these areas and the stripes are not visible in trans-
mitted light. They can be felt as shallow grooves and
might originate from burnishing the parchment be-
fore writing.
Fig. 3: Brownish discolouration on the
edge of folio 11, page 21.
Fig. 4: Planar distortions on folio 24.
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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