Full text loading...
Manuscripts, incunabula, books and registers preserved in Breton archives and libraries sometimes contain religious watermarks such as Greek crosses, Latin crosses, crosses of Saint Andrew and other forms. On their own scale, they reflect the presence of belief and its evolution. In addition to their polysemous nature and diverse functions, watermarks seem to reflect the state of thought in a society, through the borrowings they make from religious symbolism. This polysemy and diversity of motifs give them a variety of meanings and interpretations depending on the papermaker who created them and the user. This article describes and analyses the polysemy of some of these religious imprints in Breton and Belgian documents from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Article metrics loading...
Full text loading...
Data & Media loading...