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256 Conservation of the Vienna Genesis and the new storage system
the past to consolidate the ink and paint layers. It was not possible to identify and to date
the different stains.
As described in the chapter on parchment and on the miniatures, a hole on folio 2 was
repaired with parchment before painting the miniatures. Many traces of former repairs
or conservation measures can be seen, including pieces of parchment, strips of silk gauze,
transparent paper, paper fibres and transparent pressure sensitive tapes, see chapter on the
history. Pressure sensitive tapes, which look like Filmoplast (Neschen), are applied on the
upper corners of every folio and on tears of the folios 3, page 6, 13, page 26, 14, page 28,
and 16 on both pages. The ventilation holes in the acrylic sheets did not result in stains or
visible surface changes, for instance by the accumulation of surface dirt.
On every folio, silver ink has migrated to the other side of the parchment (Fig. 18). On
the thin parchment, the migration strongly interferes with the legibility of the text. On cer-
Fig. 13: (links) Matching, rust-like stains on
folios a) 20, b) 21, and c) 22.
Fig. 14: (oben) Glossy brownish stains on folio
12, page 23.
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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