Seite - 50 - in The Vienna Genesis - Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment

50 The parchment of the Vienna Genesis: characteristics and manufacture likely caused these patterns, which were also observed on new parchment samples, see chapter on purple dyeing. In the upper right corner of folio 2, an original edge of the parchment after re-stretching is preserved (Fig. 12). Fig. 10: Fibrous appearance of the flesh side of the parchment on folio 1, page 2. Fig. 11: Reconstruction of the location of pins (black dots) used for stretch- ing of a coloured bifolio of the Vienna Genesis (above); detail of tension lines from stretching of parch- ment in transmitted light (below). Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0