The Vienna Genesis : Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment

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

The Vienna Genesis (Austrian National Library, Codex Theologicus graecus 31) is a fragmentary Greek manuscript of the Book of Genesis written on purple dyed parchment with silver ink. It is assumed that the book was created in the first half of the 6th century in the Near East. 24 folios with 48 min...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hofmann, Christa (Editor), Hofmann, Christa editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [s.l.] : Böhlau 2020
2020.
Materias:
Wiener Genesis (Biblical manuscript)
Bible. > Genesis > Manuscripts, Greek.
Manuscripts > Conservation and restoration.
Manuscripts > Conservation and restoration > Austria > Vienna.
Parchment > Conservation and restoration.
Ink > Byzantine Empire.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Early Christian > Turkey > Antioch.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine > Turkey > Antioch.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430279906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Christa Hofmann
  • The history of the Vienna Genesis and former interventions since 1664 / Christa Hofmann, Sophie Rabitsch
  • The parchment of the Vienna Genesis : characteristics and manufacture / Jiří Vnouček [and 5 others]
  • Purple dying of parchment / Sophie Rabitsch, Inge Boesken Kanold, Christa Hofmann
  • Identification of the purple dye on the Vienna Genesis / Maurizio Aceto [and 4 others]
  • The silver inks of the Vienna Genesis / Sophie Rabitsch [and 6 others]
  • Alteration study of silver inks on parchment / Sophie Rabitsch [and 4 others]
  • The miniatures of the Vienna Genesis : colour identification and painters' palettes / Christa Hofmann [and 8 others]
  • Conservation of the Vienna Genesis and the new storage system / Sophie Rabitsch, Christa Hofmann, Junko Sonderegger.

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