Page - 254 - in The Vienna Genesis - Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment

254 Conservation of the Vienna Genesis and the new storage system Most pages show various stains. Water stains especially are visible along the edges of the fo- lios 4–18 and 21–24 (Fig. 11). Tide lines are especially pronounced on the folios 4, 5, 22 and 24. On some folios the stains partially correlate, but it remains unclear if the damage oc- curred when the codex was still complete or already disassembled. Small black or grey dots that appear in the text area seem to be ink stains such as on folio 20, page 39, folio 22, page 43 and folio 23, page 46. The composition of selected dark stains in the text areas was ana- Fig. 8: Insect holes on folio 23, page 45. Fig. 9: Holes and losses of different sizes. Fig. 10: Small cut mark on folio 9 and trimmed miniature on folio 13, page 25. Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0