Vienna Genesis: Material Analysis and Conservation of a Late Antique Illuminated Manuscript on Purple Parchment (1. Auflage)

Contributor(s): Aceto, Maurizio (Contribution by), Agostino, Angelo (Contribution by), Calà, Elisa (Contribution by), Fenoglio, Gaia (Contribution by), Erlach, Rudolf (Contribution by), Fiddyment, Sarah (Contribution by), Collins, Matthew (Contribution by), Grießer, Martina (Contribution by), Uhlir, Katharina (Contribution by), Malissa, Antonia (Contribution by), Rabitsch, Sophie (Contribution by), Sonderegger, Junko (Contribution by), Hradil, Klaudia (Contribution by), Boesken Kanold, Inge (Contribution by), Melo, Maria João (Contribution by), Araujo, Rita (Contribution by), Nabais, Paula (Contribution by), Quandt, Abigail (Contribution by), Vnoucek, Jiri (Contribution by), Hofmann, Christa (Editor)

ISBN: 9783205210573

Publisher: Bohlau Verlag

Hardcover

$94.00

Pub Date: July 13, 2020

Lexile Code: 0000

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.00" H x 0.00" L x 0.00" W ( 0.00 lbs) 348 pages

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Art | History | General | Conservation and Preservation

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Description: 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 miniatures have survived and have been