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presumably changed its dimensions due to ageing, conservation treatments and other ex-
ternal influences and the pricking marks of the single folios do not fit perfectly within
one quire or even one bifolio30. Cut marks, irregular margins and even cut miniatures and
letters indicate that originally the manuscript was larger in size. The current size of the
folios ranges from 257 x 238 mm31 to 328 x 268 mm32. The distances between the edge of
the parchment and the pricking marks as well as the text and miniature painting of every
folio were measured to make suggestions regarding the original size. The largest measure-
ments for the text block in terms of pricking marks in the corners of the text block (and
30 It is assumed that the scribe marked the corners of the text block for a whole quire concurrently
once with the pages folded and in place.
31 Length of folio 5, width of folio 1 and folio 17.
32 Length of folio 4, width of folio 9.
Fig. 6: Detail with
matching ruling
lines across the
centre fold, folios
12 and 13.
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The Vienna Genesis
Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment
- Titel
- The Vienna Genesis
- Untertitel
- Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment
- Herausgeber
- Christa Hofmann
- Verlag
- Böhlau Verlag
- Ort
- Wien
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-205-21058-0
- Abmessungen
- 17.3 x 24.5 cm
- Seiten
- 348