![]() ![]() Isinglass, an adhesive made from the swim bladder of fish, was selected to consolidate the most vulnerable areas of the paint layer. Consolidating the paint layerĭetaching flakes of paint were reattached. Alongside the frontispiece (folio 3), the first bifolio (folios 1–2), with its illuminated title page and the first heading, would also be removed from the volume. The decision was taken to remove the frontispiece from the volume in order to minimize losses to the paint layer. When examined under a microscope, the remaining paint layer was found to be cracked, areas of paint surrounding losses vulnerable, and some flakes of paint almost detached. The manuscript was considered again in 2015, when it was selected for the Duke Humfrey's Night fundraising event. In 1984 the fragility of the illuminated frontispiece was a cause for concern, and the manuscript was withdrawn from normal access. Greek illuminations are known to be susceptible to flaking, and MS. The manuscript includes a frontispiece showing the September saints in four registers, a quatrefoil title page and 22 illuminated headpieces. (Description (in German) in Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften, Band 1, Oxford Bodleian Library I, by Irmgard Hutter (Denkmäler der Buchkunst, Band 2), Stuttgart 1977, pp. It contains a menologion for the month of September by Symeon Metaphrastes and others. 68–71).Īmongst the Greek manuscripts was a magnificent Byzantine manuscript, dating from the third quarter of the eleventh century, now MS. This collection, which came originally from the Venetian noble family of Barozzi, was purchased by Pembroke for £700, and in that year he donated the majority of it to Oxford University (Macray, W.D., Annals of the Bodleian Library Oxford, Oxford: Clarendon Press, second edition, 1890, pp. Convocation Register, Bodleian Library, Oxford University Archives). William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke and Chancellor of the University, wrote to the Vice-Chancellor in 1629 regarding ‘an excellent Collection of Greke manuscripts brought from Venice’ (NEP/supra/Reg R, folio 9v. Conserving, digitizing and rehousing an eleventh-century Greek illuminated manuscript.
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