================================================= COLLECTIONS OF PAPER REPRODUCTION ================================================= by Vlad Atanasiu / 2005 DESCRIPTION FORMULARY NAME: name of the collection and acronym URL: Internet access of the collection or information about it QUANTITY: number of individual papers reproduced OWNER: owner of the collection of reproductions TECHNIQUE: reproduction technique (rubbing, tracing, backlight, radiography, surface laser scan...) FORMAT: present form of reproductions (films, printed, digitized files off-line, on-line resource) DOCUMENT: type of documents containing the reproduced papers (manuscripts, books, archival documents, art papers...) PERIOD: time period in which the documents where produced AREA: geographical area of origin of the documents PRO: importance of the collection ISSUES: aspects that the collection has to address CONTACT: person and contact details of person responsible for the collection NAME: URL: QUANTITY: OWNER: TECHNIQUE: FORMAT: DOCUMENT: PERIOD: AREA: PRO: ISSUES: CONTACT: ================================================= ON-LINE ================================================= NAME: Watermarks in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries (WILC) URL: http://watermark.kb.nl/ QUANTITY: 16.000 records OWNER: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The Netherlands TECHNIQUE: electron-radiography, rubbing FORMAT: Internet resource DOCUMENT: incunabula PERIOD: XVth c. AREA: Low Countries PRO: almost complete collection of watermarks used in 15th century Low Countries books ISSUES: - CONTACT: Marieke van Delft (Marieke.vanDelft@kb.nl) ................................................................................................................................. NAME: "Piccard" Watermark Collection (Piccard-Online) URL: http://www.piccard-online.de QUANTITY: circa 95.000 watermarks OWNER: Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany TECHNIQUE: tracing FORMAT: On-line resource DOCUMENT: manuscripts PERIOD: XIIIth – XIXth c. AREA: South-West Germany and European neighbouring countries PRO: the world's largest collection, already on-line ISSUES: - CONTACT: Peter Rückert (peter.rueckert@la-bw.de) ................................................................................................................................. NAME: Watermarks of the Middle Ages (WZMA) URL: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ksbm/wz/wzma2.htm QUANTITY: 8.000 records OWNER: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria TECHNIQUE: beta-radiography FORMAT: Internet resource DOCUMENT: manuscript books (more than 600 manuscripts from 16 Austrian collections) PERIOD: 1330 - early 16th c. AREA: Austria PRO: ISSUES: CONTACT: Alois Haidinger (alois.haidinger@oeaw.ac.at) ................................................................................................................................. NAME: International database of watermarks and paper used for prints and drawings c. 1450-1800 URL: http://www.iuoart.org/wmdb.htm QUANTITY: online: 18 images made with backlight method and 287 watermark-records; off-line: 1.500 soft-x-ray films (presently at the scanning procedure) watermarks printed in books and articles. The database is developed by Jürgen Sturm (2004) and Robert Richter (2005 ) OWNER: Netherlands Interuniversity Art Historical Institute, Florence, Italy TECHNIQUE: soft-x-ray, backlight FORMAT: Internet resource DOCUMENT: prints, drawings, letters PERIOD: c. 1450-1800 AREA: PRO: ISSUES: CONTACT: Georg Dietz (iuo@iuo.iris.firenze.it) ................................................................................................................................. NAME: Le filigrane degli archivi genovesi URL: http://linux.lettere.unige.it/briquet/ QUANTITY: OWNER: Laboratory of quantitative history, Chair of bibliography and bibliotheconomy, University of Genova, Genova, Italy TECHNIQUE: tracing FORMAT: Internet resource DOCUMENT: PERIOD: AREA: AREA: ISSUES: CONTACT: ................................................................................................................................. NAME: Manuscript heritage, Iranian manuscript series URL: http://web.mit.edu/atanasiu/www/KABIKADJ/INDEX.HTM QUANTITY: c. 300 OWNER: Abtahi collection & French institute of Research in Iran, Teheran, Iran TECHNIQUE: backlight FORMAT: digitized, partially on-line DOCUMENT: manuscripted books, archive documents PERIOD: 17th-19th c. AREA: Iran PRO: only on-line collection of Persian papers and European export papers ISSUES: not all documents are on-line CONTACT: Vlad Atanasiu (atanasiu@mit.edu) ................................................................................................................................. NAME: International Paper Registry URL: http://abacus.bates.edu/Faculty/wmarchive/ QUANTITY: currently papers from 2 codices, and from multiple copies of the 1640 Grete Herbal in various collections in the UK and the United States OWNER: The Watermark Initiative, Bates College, Lewiston (Maine), USA TECHNIQUE: Dupont Dylux® proofing paper (Thomas Gravell's method) FORMAT: images completed; data entry of descriptions in progress DOCUMENT: manuscripts PERIOD: 1640 AREA: European paper PRO: (1) our prototype projects (pilot projects) have been chosen because of the inherent scholarly value of the objects being described or to demonstrate the utility of the project; (2) inexpensive implementation for participating institutions; (3) the schema contains all of the fields in the IPH standard for paper and watermark description. (The field values are in words, however, rather than numeric codes. Our future plans call for storing codes in the database but interacting with the user in the language of choice); (4) the system is based on relational database technology, which was a conscious choice; SGML and XML are inherently hierarchical; the relationships among the various parts of the description of paper bearing objects are not hierarchical in nature. ISSUES: This project is designed to grow over time, as a publication system; it will not immediately be useful for commercial or forensic use for authentication purposes, but will be immediately useful for documentation of ownership and for the areas of scholarship represented by the pilot projects, and for partnering projects that adopt our model. CONTACT: Robert W. Allison (rallison@bates.edu) ================================================= OFF-LINE ================================================= NAME: Watermarks in Incunabula printed in Spain (WIES) URL: [currently not-online] QUANTITY: 8.400 rubbings, of these 2.800 digitized OWNER: Gerard van Thienen, The Hague, Netherlands owner: GvT TECHNIQUE: rubbings FORMAT: 2800 digital image files, 5200 paper hardcopies DOCUMENT: copies of 840 editions (from the total of 1000 printed) in almost 100 libraries, mainly in Spain but also in France, Germany, Austria, Russia and USA. PERIOD: 1470-1510 AREA: Spain AREA: This is the first extensive research of watermarks in Spanish incunables, which are printed moreover on Italian (Piemonte) produced paper. ISSUES: dating the 500 undated Spanish incunable editions and supplying the material for dating Spanish manuscripts and incunables and manuscripts produced in northwest Italy. CONTACT: Gerard van Thienen,curator of incunabula, Royal Library, The Hague, retired August 2004, researcher and editor of WILC (Watermarks in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries) (gvth@xs4all.nl) ................................................................................................................................. NAME: The National Library of Germany, Cultural and Paper Historical Collections (Die Deutsche Bibliothek, Kultur- und Paperhistorische Sammlungen) ADDRESS: Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig / Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum, Deutscher Platz 1, 04103 Leipzig, Germany URL: [http://ww.ddb.de, institution's website, since paper collection not on-line] QUANTITY: HOLDINGS: This collections houses an astounding 350,000+ items documenting handmade paper from the 15th to the 19th century in two sections: by watermark and by location of paper production, papermills, and papermakers; both sections include traces or copies of all watermarks. It also includes 20th-century handmade papers from Europe, Asia, and America; Japanese handmade papers (raw and processed); European decorated papers (this section alone includes 20,000 items); and numerous sample books, publications on papermaking history, and papermaking tools. Systematic access to papers of different origins is its primary strength. HIGHLIGHTS: The institution houses watermarks of more than 500 different European papermills, an important collection of 134 samples of washi presented by Japan to the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873, and its extensive and fully indexed library holdings. PHYSICAL ACCESS: Staff-assisted viewing by appointment during hours of operation: Mon-Fri, 8 am to 4 pm. Information about watermarks can be obtained by letter or email inquiry. CATALOG: Collection is cataloged and information is available in the office, via different databases and card indexes. The literature is documented in printed form: Internationale Bibliographie zur Papiergeschichte (IBP), 4 volumes (Munich, 2003). Library has plans to provide online access to collection catalog in the future. It is currently taking part of an international effort to develop international English-language thesaurus for decorative and decorated papers. OWNER: TECHNIQUE: FORMAT: DOCUMENT: PERIOD: AREA: PRO: ISSUES: CONTACT: Dr. Frieder Schmidt (TITLE), tel 49-341-22-71-315, schmidtf@dbl.ddb.de; Andrea Lothe (TITLE), tel 49-341-22-71-225, lothe@dbl.ddb.de; fax 49-341-22-71-240. ................................................................................................................................. NAME: [Papers used by Rembrandt] URL: QUANTITY: circa 300 paper sheets OWNER: British Musuem and the Library of the Congress TECHNIQUE: radiography, not digitized, not on-line FORMAT: films DOCUMENT: drawing sheets PERIOD: XVIIth c. AREA: Low Countries PRO: Important artist ISSUES: not on-line CONTACT: Jean E. Brown (jean.brown@northumbria.ac.uk), Georg Dietz (iuo@iuo.iris.firenze.it) ................................................................................................................................. NAME: [Austrian collections] URL: QUANTITY: c. 400 OWNER: Akedemie der Künste, Vienna TECHNIQUE: FORMAT: DOCUMENT: PERIOD: AREA: PRO: ISSUES: CONTACT: Prof. Schreiner, Austria ................................................................................................................................. NAME: [Collection of IPCL] URL: [http://www.patologialibro.beniculturali.it] QUANTITY: OWNER: Instituto di patologia del libro, Rome, Italy TECHNIQUE: radiography FORMAT: digitized, not on-line DOCUMENT: PERIOD: AREA: PRO: ISSUES: CONTACT: icplform@tin.it ................................................................................................................................. NAME: URL: QUANTITY: OWNER: State Museum, Moscow TECHNIQUE: FORMAT: digitized DOCUMENT: manuscripts, printed books PERIOD: AREA: Russia PRO: would be the first Russian paper collections to go on-line ISSUES: CONTACT: ................................................................................................................................. NAME: URL: QUANTITY: OWNER: Russian Academy, St. Petersburg TECHNIQUE: FORMAT: digitized, not-on-line DOCUMENT: manuscripts, printed books PERIOD: AREA: Russia PRO: would be the first Russian paper collections to go on-line ISSUES: CONTACT: ................................................................................................................................. NAME: Watermarks of Manuscript Department URL: - QUANTITY: c. 500 OWNER: National Library of Russia, Moscow TECHNIQUE: IR-copy (digital TV) FORMAT: digitized, not-on-line DOCUMENT: manuscripts and documents PERIOD: 15th-16th c. AREA: Russia, Poland PRO: medieval Russian copyists, Poland aristocrats ISSUES: CONTACT: Denis Tsypkin ................................................................................................................................. NAME: Gerardy collection URL: QUANTITY: c. 10.000 watermarks from the 14th-16th (7500) and 17th-19th century (ca. 2000) OWNER: TECHNIQUE: photographs, rubbings, drawings FORMAT: on paper, not digitized DOCUMENT: PERIOD: 14th-19thc. AREA: PRO: ISSUES: CONTACT: KB ................................................................................................................................. NAME: [Hebrew incunabula] URL: QUANTITY: c. 300 OWNER: Silke Schaeper, Oxford, United Kingdom TECHNIQUE: FORMAT: digitized, not-on-line DOCUMENT: printed books PERIOD: 15th c. AREA: PRO: Complete digitized collection of Hebrew incunabula papers ISSUES: not on-line CONTACT: Silke Schaeper (silke.schaeper@sjc.ox.ac.uk) ................................................................................................................................. Briquet / LAMOP / Paris ................................................................................................................................. Reijksmusuem / Amsterdam > are partly in NIKI ................................................................................................................................. Louvre / Paris ................................................................................................................................. Basel / Filigrana database / Collection Dr. Wurm Architectural drawings of the Renaissnace / c. 5000 ................................................................................................................................. German Institute in Rome / Architectural drawings http://www.biblhertz.it/deutsch/forschung/lineamentaDeutsch.htm Dr. Martin Raspe (raspe@uni-trier.de) Dr. des. Georg Schelbert (schelbert@biblhertz.it) ................................................................................................................................. NAME: 'Abd al-Rahman al-Hadhrami Collection URL: - QUANTITY: 132 watermarks from 54 mss OWNER: "Projet de sauvegarde des manuscrits des bibliothèques privées de Zabid (Yémen)"; Projet du Centre Français d'Archéologie et de Sciences sociales de Sanaa (CEFAS); responsable scientifique: Anne Regourd TECHNIQUE: tracing FORMAT: papier calque ; projet de publication à l'étude DOCUMENT: manuscripts PERIOD: end 17th c. - mid 20th c. AREA: Zabid, Yemen PRO: - ISSUES: - CONTACT: 'Arafat al-Hadhrami, Zabid, Anne Regourd (A.Regourd@leeds.ac.uk) ................................................................................................................................. NAME: TIEM Modern papers URL: QUANTITY: OWNER: TIEM, Paris TECHNIQUE: FORMAT: DOCUMENT: PERIOD: AREA: PRO: ISSUES: CONTACT: Claire Boustaret ................................................................................................................................. NAME: IPCL URL: QUANTITY: OWNER: IPCL, Rome TECHNIQUE: FORMAT: DOCUMENT: PERIOD: AREA: Venice, other PRO: ISSUES: CONTACT: Paola Munafo ................................................................................................................................. NAME: Zonghi collection URL: QUANTITY: OWNER: Museo de la carta Fabriano, Private collection Fabriano, IPCL? TECHNIQUE: FORMAT: DOCUMENT: PERIOD: AREA: PRO: ISSUES: CONTACT: Pellegrini (MCF), Paola Munafo (IPCL)