Watermarks Lecture Series: Determining the Age of Paper Between the Date of Manufacture and Use

Dmitry Likhachov believes that the maximum period that paper takes from the date of its manufacture until the period of scribing on it is 10 years, depending on the distance between the place where the paper was made (Italy, for example) and the place of scribing on it (Egypt, for example).

Charles-Moïse Briquet, however, calculated the period of use of paper and added five years, so that the maximum period of paper use is 15 years. Briquet studied this by counting the number of identical watermarks and counting the number of times they were used in plain paper and in large format paper between the 13th and 16th centuries AD.

• Speaker: Fattouma bin Yahia, Head of Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, National Library of Algeria
• The event will be conducted online via Microsoft Teams.
• Date: 22 March 2021
• Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM
• Language: Arabic
• Target Audience: Manuscripts professionals, students and the general public

Seats are limited, register HERE!

Watermarks Lecture Series: A Reading in Charles-Moïse Briquet's Encyclopedia

In 1917, Charles-Moïse Briquet produced the mammoth four-volume work Les Filigranes, in which 16,112 watermarks were collected from libraries and archives, official documents of courts, and records of notaries in different European countries.

This lecture discusses the objective of this encyclopedia, the countries that were listed and excluded with an explanation of the reasons, the obstacles encountered during the production of this encyclopedia, and the information provided by Briquet. The lecture also features the history of making paper, how watermarks were classified within the encyclopedia and the relationship of this encyclopedia to the book Papiers et Filigranes des Archives de Gênes.

• Speaker: Fattouma bin Yahia, Head of Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, National Library of Algeria
• The event will be conducted online via Microsoft Teams.
• Date: 29 March 2021
• Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM
• Language: Arabic
• Target Audience: Manuscript professionals, students and the general public

Seats are limited, register HERE!

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