Filigranology
Study of Watermarks
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Filigranology is the study of watermarks. It is usually pursued in order to discover information about the date and origin for a paper-based piece of writing or a piece of art. There are several catalogues of watermarks – most notably C. M. Briquet's, Les Filigranes (1907), which dealt mainly with the period up to 1600,[1] and Edward Heawood's Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (1950),[2] both of which include illustrations of many watermarks from dated documents. These catalogues form an important resource for researchers.[3]
See also
- Alan Tyson. British musicologist who used filigranology to find the true date for many of the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
