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Sophie Rabitsch, Christa Hofmann, Junko Sonderegger 279
were adjusted to the size and depth of each folio. A small space was left on the lower inner
corner of the frames to facilitate the opening of the tissue folders. A click system of mat-
board was applied to keep the folders closed (Fig. 34). Straps of cotton ribbon (Stoffkeller)
were recessed into the back side of the matboard folder, fixed with Japanese tissue and wheat
starch paste. The matboard folder is then stored in a larger sink mat with a cover (Fig. 35).
For this purpose, a case made of museum matboard (1.8 mm) and corrugated board (Klug,
6.4 mm) measuring 50 x 40 cm was created59. A window a bit larger than the small matboard
folder was cut inside the corrugated board and the matboard. All open edges of the corru-
59 Helmut Molacek made the sink mat-cases, Institute for Conservation, Austrian National Library.
Fig. 34: Matboard
folder with
frame and click
system.
Fig. 35: The passepar-
tout with sink
mat and cover,
the matboard
folder and the
archival box.
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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