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202 The miniatures of the Vienna Genesis: colour identification and painters’ palettes Previous theories on painters’ palettes Franz Wickhoff first emphasized the participation of several painters in the commentary to the facsimile edition from 18952 (Table 1). His theories did not consider the system of bi- folios and was not shared by his followers. Charles R. Morey recognised the similarities of the miniatures of the Vienna Genesis with the Codex Rossanensis and the Codex Sinopen- sis. He assumed that six painters worked on the miniatures3. Morey, Buberl4, Mazal5 and Zimmermann6 agreed that folios 15 and 16 (pages 29–32), folios 17 and 18 (pages 33–36), folios 19–22 (pages 37–44) and folios 23 and 24 (pages 45–48) were painted by different artists (Table 1). Buberl and Mazal had the opportunity to study the original manuscript and considered the scheme of quires. They assumed that one artist painted the miniatures on both sides of one biofolio. They differed in their attributions of folios 1–8 (pages 1–16). Mazal thought that a different artist painted each of these bifolios. Mazal saw stylistic vari- ations and proposed 11 artists for all miniatures. Zimmermann doubted the differences and assumed that one artist painted folios 1–8 (pages 1–16) as well as folios 10–14 (pages 20–28). In accordance with Morey, Zimmermann proposed six painters based on art historical re- search. The pigments of the Vienna Genesis have never been investigated. Differences be- tween the painters in the way they used and applied colours have not been studied so far. Table 1: Theories of painters from 1895 to 2017 Author, Date Painters Folios (f) and pages (p) Wickhoff, 1895 A f 1–2 (p 1–4), f 3v (p 6), f 5 (p 9–10), f 7–10 (p 13–20) B f 4 (p 7–8), f 6 (p 11–12) C f 11–12 (p. 21–24), f 14–16 (p 27–32) D f 13 (p 25–26) E f 17–18 (p 33–36) F f 3r (p 5), f 19–22 (p 37–44) G f 23–24 (p 45–48) Morey, 1929 A f 1–8 (p 1–16), f 11–14 (p 21–28) B f 9–10 (p 17–20) C f 15–16 (p 29–32) 2 Hartel and Wickhoff, 1895, pp. 88, 162–66. 3 Morey, 1929, pp. 5–112. 4 Buberl, 1936, pp. 9–58. 5 Mazal, 1980, pp. 161–166. 6 Zimmermann, 2003, pp. 220–223. Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0