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194 Alteration study of silver inks on parchment
Like the samples of the parchment type LP, samples of the parchment type MP
showed a large amount of undamaged fibres. Those fibres which indicated a damage
of the collagen structure were present in form of “pearls on a string” and “bundles”. In
particular the small amount of undamaged fibres that could be observed in the case of
parchment LP and MP suggested a less progressed degradation of the collagen structure
Fig. 38: HIROX images (taken at 150x magnification, scale bar 500 µm) of the most frequently observed
fibre morphology of reference parchment LP after 13 days of artificially ageing.
Fig. 39: HIROX images (taken at 150x magnification, scale bar 500 µm) of the most frequently ob-
served fibre morphologies of folio 9 of the Vienna Genesis (Vienna Genesis_S2).
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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