Stand und Perspektiven der Wasserzeichenforschung

Research on Watermarks – State and Perspectives. Research on watermarks is commonly accepted nowadays as an auxiliary field of history. In certain circumstances, watermarks are able to narrow the date of origin of written sources down to a few years. During the last two decades, watermark research has drawn growing interest by the scientific community. Printed watermark repertories as well as new collections of watermarks from written and printed sources were published online in the frame of a series of projects. A common search interface for the most important of these databases was created in the EU-project 'Bernstein - The Memory of Paper'. The new databases are particularly used for dating mediaeval manuscripts. This paper intends to provide an overview of online databases of watermarks and of modern techniques for their visualisation

Zur registrierung der Wasserzeichen in Klosterneuburger Handschriften

Haidinger Alois. Zur registrierung der Wasserzeichen in Klosterneuburger Handschriften. In: Gazette du livre médiéval, n°5. Automne 1984. pp. 10-11

Projekt "WZMA -Wasserzeichen des Mittelalters". Arbeitsstand und Perspektiven

Haidinger Alois. Projekt "WZMA -Wasserzeichen des Mittelalters". Arbeitsstand und Perspektiven. In: Gazette du livre médiéval, n°47. Automne 2005. pp. 42-45

Zur Wiedergabe von Wasserzeichen mittels welcher Röntgensstrahlung

Haidinger Alois, Lackner Franz. Zur Wiedergabe von Wasserzeichen mittels welcher Röntgensstrahlung. In: Gazette du livre médiéval, n°15. Automne 1989. pp. 12-15

Wasserzeichen Klosterneuburger Handschriften

Haidinger Alois, Wenger Emanuel, Karnaukhov Viktor, Stieglecker Maria. Wasserzeichen Klosterneuburger Handschriften. In: Gazette du livre médiéval, n°32. Printemps 1998. pp. 8-13

A Digital Image Processing and Database System for Watermarks in Medieval Manuscripts

Watermarks are the most important tool for dating old, not explicitly dated paper documents. Hence, catalogues and databases of watermarks play an eminent role for the work of medievalist and paper historians. This article presents an integrated software system developed for storage, retrieval, manipulation, digital processing, and identification of watermarks in old manuscripts. The whole processing pipeline beginning with the scanning of watermarks up to their identification is described. Most of these watermarks were captured from manuscripts kept in the Klosterneuburg monastery (Austria)