Page - 253 - in The Vienna Genesis - Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment

Sophie Rabitsch, Christa Hofmann, Junko Sonderegger 253 deterioration of the parchment was caused by the silver ink, which is described below. The edges of the folios have been trimmed very unevenly. On some folios (e. g. folios 1 and 9) small cut marks can be seen. On folio 1, page 1, parts of a letter on the right and of the miniature on the left are missing. On folio 2, page 4, the miniature has been reduced by trimming on the lower margin and on folio 13, page 25, the miniature has been reduced by trimming on the right margin (Fig. 10). We assume that damaged areas of parchment at the edges have been cut off during rebinding or repairs. Fig. 7: Tears of different sizes, a) folio 1, page 1, b) folio 9, page 17, and c) folios 12, page 23. Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0