The endangered condition of the Vienna Genesis prompted us to undertake a research project to study the materials, to assess the damage, and to provide solutions for its conservation. 31, folio 2, page 4, the departure from the ark and Noah’s sacrifice. This damage remains to be the main challenge for conservation. in 1664, Peter Lambeck described the deterioration of the silver ink that had resulted in losses of the parchment and the text ( Mazal 1980).
inherited his uncle’s collection, the prefect of the Court Library Peter Lambeck asked the emperor to integrate the codex into the library. Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria presumably bought it from a collection in Northern Italy. We do not know how the manuscript arrived in Europe. Since 1664, the folios have been preserved in Vienna at the Court Library, which later became the Austrian National Library. Figure 1 shows folio 2, page 4 with the miniature of the departure from the ark. The manuscript is famous for its unique cycle of 48 miniatures depicting scenes from the book of Genesis: from the fall of Adam and Eve to the funeral of Jacob. Today, 24 single folios of a presumed total of 96 folios are preserved. The codex is dated to the first half of the sixth century and was produced in the Near East, possibly in the city of Antioch ( Mazal 1980). 31) is an illuminated Greek manuscript written with silver ink on purple parchment. The Vienna Genesis (Austrian National Library, Cod.
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