Filigranology
The Filigranologie (French. Filigree "Watermark"), or watermark customer dealing scientifically with watermark . It thus represents a material-oriented historical auxiliary science that researches paper evidence, e.g. B. Certificates, manuscripts.
In addition to dealing with the watermarks themselves, their production and also their forgeries, an important task of filigranology is the dating and origin research of historical documents. For this purpose, collections and catalogs are used, which are now available as specialist databases digitally and online.
literature
- Karl Theodor Weiß : Handbook of watermarking . Edited and ed. by Wisso Weiß. Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1962.
- Ralph Günter Brachvogel: Critical thoughts on watermarking as a dating aid. In: Acta Congressus Internationalis Historiae Pharmaziae Pragae MCMLXXI (= publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy, Volume 38), Stuttgart 1972.
Web links
Commons : Watermarks - collection of images, videos, and audio files
