ARCHIVE OF WATERMARKS AND PAPERS IN GREEK MANUSCRIPTS

Produced by Robert W. Allison
Assoc. Prof of Religion, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine and
Research Fellow Ektaktikos of the Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies, Thessaloniki
© 1996 Robert W. Allison. All rights reserved.

Introduction to the Archive of Watermark Images

• Introduction and Purpose of the Archive of Images
• The Present State of the Archive
• Links to Information Regarding the Archive of Watermark Images, containing links to the various web pages comprising this introduction:

  How This Archive Was Created

  How To Use This Archive

  Contributing to the Watermark Archive

  Instructions for Making Contact Prints of Watermarks

Introduction & Purpose

• to enable scholars to search for watermarks which match those found by them in other manuscripts
• to exploit the advantages of the electronic medium for study, comparison and reproduction of watermark images
• to serve as a medium of publication of newly discovered watermarks in Greek manuscripts
• to facilitate the central project of contemporary Greek paleography, namely, the identification of scribes and centers of book production and the reconstruction of their work.

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The Present State of the Archive of Watermark Images

NOTE: Some of the images require corrections and reorientation to an upright position; your patience is requested during this installation period.

In the meantime, we encourage you to check out the Temporary Index to the Watermark Database in order to

• see what watermarks have been put on line so far
• get an impression of the quality of the watermark images published in this medium
• experiment with comparing some of the watermark twins
• try downloading watermark images and printing them up at true size

You might also like to have a look at

• the complete List of Watermarks in the Watermark Archive (to see what will soon be available here from the Philotheou Monastery catalog project),
• the What's New page (for information about new developments).

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Links to Information Regarding the Archive of Watermark Images

This Guide to the Archive of Watermark Images consists of several WWW pages on various aspects of the history, organization, method and function of this Archive:

• How This Archive Was Created, including scanning method, kinds of images available, computer enhancement of images.

• How To Use This Archive . This section explains searches, viewing a print, on-screen comparison of watermarks, and obtaining prints from this archive for comparison.

• Contributing to the Watermark Archive Scholars everywhere who are gathering tracings or prints of watermarks from Greek manuscripts are invited to contribute tracings or prints to this archive. This section explains how to publish your watermarks here, and gives instructions for electronic submission of scanned prints or tracings.

• Instructions for Making Contact Prints of Watermarks This document explains how to make watermark prints from even the most difficult watermarks (like the one seen in the header on this and other pages in this archive) using Dupont Dylux® proofing paper.

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