Reference book Watermarks in Belarusian Archive Records of 16th to early 20th Centuries published at BelNIIDAD

The Belarusian Research Institute of Records Management and Archival Science (BelNIIDAD) has published a reference book, Watermarks in the Belarusian Archive Records of the 16th to early 20th Centuries (in the Belarusian language). The book offers an album of watermarks from the given period found on paper records available at the National Historical Archives of Belarus. In all, the directory contains about 700 images of the watermarks. One of the sections in the book gives the description of the marks, their semantics, provides information on the place and time when the relevant paper was produced, and gives links to similar marks in other albums. In addition, there is a table listing the watermarks placed in the book with data on where and when the watermarked document was used, with the respective archive code. The watermarks placed in the book are the photographic images that were specially processed on computer and are maximum close to the original. This method of making the watermark images was used for the first time in world practice.

The directory of this kind was published in Belarus for the first time.