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Ill. 6: WZMA: Watermark list<br />
Beta radiography photos of the watermarks in the WZMA<br />
collection as well as metadata on the marks <strong>and</strong> the concerning<br />
manuscripts have been available on the internet<br />
since 1999 (http://www.ksbm.oeaw.ac.at/wz/wzma/). This<br />
database (last visited 31 August 2008) contains images of<br />
about 9,000 watermarks from approximately 600 codices in<br />
Austrian manuscript libraries, dating from 1321 to the beginning<br />
of the 16 th century. About 1,000 new images from<br />
manuscripts in the Vienna Schottenstift, the Innsbruck University<br />
Library <strong>and</strong> the Austrian National Library were added<br />
in March 2007, when the site was updated.<br />
<strong>The</strong> WZMA database can be used like a printed collection:<br />
By choosing the name of a watermark motif in the<br />
menu list or an icon of one of the collection’s watermark<br />
groups (Ill. 4), all the relevant watermarks are listed in a<br />
table; by clicking on the reference number of a particular<br />
watermark, its picture appears as well as details about the<br />
watermark <strong>and</strong> the manuscript it is found in (Ill. 5).<br />
In addition, by clicking on a manuscript’s signature, a list<br />
of its documented watermarks appears, also including identical<br />
watermarks <strong>and</strong> variants (Ill. 6). Photographs of related<br />
watermarks can be accessed by clicking on their reference<br />
number (for example AT5000–165_37, etc.) <strong>and</strong> compared<br />
to one another directly on the screen.<br />
It is planned to incorporate, on a yearly basis, any newly<br />
documented watermarks from Austrian manuscripts from<br />
the Middle Ages into the WZMA online database. As well,<br />
in the immediate future it is planned to improve the links<br />
between the WZMA <strong>and</strong> other watermark online databases<br />
<strong>and</strong> published watermark collections. This will be undertaken<br />
by the Commission of Palaeography <strong>and</strong> Codicology of<br />
Medieval Manuscripts of the Austrian Academy of Sciences,<br />
in part within the framework of the EU project “<strong>Bernstein</strong> –<br />
<strong>The</strong> Memory of Paper”.<br />
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Alois Haidinger, Emanuel Wenger, Victor N. Karnaukhov: Wasserzeichen<br />
Klosterneuburger H<strong>and</strong>schriften, in: Gazette du livre médiéval<br />
32 (1998), p. 8–13.<br />
Alois Haidinger: Datieren mittelalterlicher H<strong>and</strong>schriften mittels<br />
ihrer Wasserzeichen, in: Anzeiger der phil.-hist. Klasse der Österreichischen<br />
Akademie der Wissenschaften 139 (2004), p. 1–18, plate<br />
1-X.<br />
Alois Haidinger: Projekt “Wasserzeichen des Mittelalters” – Arbeitsst<strong>and</strong><br />
und Perspektiven, in: Gazette du livre médiéval 47 (2005),<br />
p. 42–45.<br />
Alois Haidinger: Die Sammlung “WZMA – Wasserzeichen des Mittelalters”<br />
der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters,<br />
in: Piccard-Online – Digitale Präsentationen von Wasserzeichen<br />
und ihre Nutzung, hg. von Peter Rückert, Gerald Maier, Jeannette<br />
Godau (= Werkhefte der Staatlichen Archivverwaltung<br />
Baden-Württemberg, Serie A, Heft 19), Stuttgart 2007.<br />
Alois Haidinger, Maria Stieglecker, unter Mitarbeit von Franz Lackner:<br />
WZMA – Wasserzeichen des Mittelalters. Online-Sammlung<br />
‘vorwiegend mittelalterlicher Wasserzeichen aus H<strong>and</strong>schriften<br />
österreichischer Bibliotheken, Wien 1999ff. (Last version: v.<br />
3–2007–03-21).<br />
A.H. (C.P.-K.)<br />
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