Related Reading
Publications Related to Computational Coding of Paper
Ellis, Margaret Holben. “Shared Watermark Types in the Royal Collection Trust and the Codex Leicester: Fleur-de-lis or Lily.” LEOcode.org. February 19, 2023. https://leocode.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Fleur-de-lis_Lily-FINAL.pdf.
Ellis, Margaret Holben. “Shared Watermark Types in the Royal Collection Trust and the Codex Arundel: St. Catherine’s Wheel.” LEOcode.org. February 19, 2023. https://leocode.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/St-Catherines-Wheel-FINAL.pdf.
Ellis, Margaret Holben, and C. Richard Johnson, Jr. “Computational Connoisseurship: Enhanced Examination Using Automated Image Analysis.” Visual Resources 35, no. 1-2 (2019): 125-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973762.2019.1556886.
Ellis, Margaret Holben, William A. Sethares, and C. Richard Johnson, Jr. “A Powerful Tool for Paper Studies: The Computational Coding of Watermarked Papers in Leonardo’s Codex Leicester and Codex Arundel.” The Quarterly: The Review of the British Association of Paper Historians, no. 118 (July 2021): 1-18. https://leocode.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Ellis_Johnson_Codex_Leicester_Computational_Coding_Quarterly_2021.pdf.
Ellis, Margaret Holben, C. Richard Johnson, Jr., and William A. Sethares. “Advances in the Computational Characterization of Leonardo’s Papers: Why Moldmates Matter.” Proceedings of the International Association of Paper Historians (IPH) 35th Biennial Congress, 2021, forthcoming.
Ellis, Margaret Holben, C. Richard Johnson, Jr., and William A. Sethares. “Moldmates Matter: Computational Tools to Enhance, Measure, Compare, and Match Historical Papers.” Getty Research Journal, vol. 17 (January 2023): 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1086/724136.
Ellis, Margaret Holben, William A. Sethares, and C. Richard Johnson, Jr. “Computational Characterization of Leonardo’s Papers.” In Decoding Leonardo’s Codices: Compilation, Dispersal, and Reproduction Technologies, edited by Paolo Galluzzi and Alessandro Nova, 277-288. Florence: Marsilio, 2022.
Gorske, Sara F., C. Richard Johnson, Jr., William A. Sethares, Margaret Holben Ellis, and Paul Messier. “Moldmate Identification in Pre-19th-century European Paper Using Quantitative Analysis of Watermarks, Chain Line Intervals, and Laid Line Density.” International Journal for Digital Art History (March 2021): 6.15-6.32. https://doi.org/10.11588/dah.2020.5.71232.
Johnson, Jr., C. Richard. “Decision Trees for Watermark Identification in Rembrandt’s Etchings.” Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 12.2 (Summer 2020). https://doi.org/10.5092/jhna.12.2.5.
Johnson, Jr., C. Richard, William A. Sethares, and Margaret Holben Ellis. “Overlay Videos for Quick and Accurate Watermark Identification, Comparison, and Matching,” Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 13, no. 2 (Summer 2021). https://doi.org/10.5092/jhna.2021.13.2.1.
Johnson, Jr., C. Richard, William A. Sethares, Margaret Holben Ellis, and Saira Haqqi. “Hunting for Paper Moldmates among Rembrandt’s Prints.” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine: Art Investigation 32, no. 4 (July 2015): 28–37. https://doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2015.2404931.
Johnson, Jr., C.R., W.A. Sethares, M.H. Ellis, S. Haqqi, R. Snyder, E. Hinterding, I. van Leeuwen, A. Wallert, D. Christoforou, J. van der Lubbe, N. Orenstein, A. Campbell, and G. Dietz. “Chain Line Pattern Matching and Rembrandt’s Prints.” In Rembrandt and His Circle: Insights and Discoveries, edited by Stephanie Dickey, 319-334. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2017.
Sethares, William A., Margaret Holben Ellis, and C. Richard Johnson, Jr. “Computational Watermark Enhancement in Leonardo’s Codex Leicester.” Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 59, no. 2 (March 2020): 87-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/01971360.2019.1703483.
Slawik, Abigail. “Secrets in Plain Sight.” Friends of Conservation Newsletter, October 2022. https://conta.cc/3za0BGO.
Slawik, Abigail, Margaret Holben Ellis, William A. Sethares, and C. Richard Johnson, Jr. “User-friendly Software for Identifying Moldmates and Twins in Antique Laid Paper: Case Study of a Disbound Blank Book,” Manuscript Studies 7, no. 2, (Fall 2022): 341-360. https://doi.org/10.1353/mns.2022.0020.
Slawik, Abigail and Margaret Holben Ellis. “LEOcode Goes Live: A Dynamic Resource and Tool for Paper Historians, Conservators, Codicologists, and Art Historians.” Artists’ Paper: A Case in Paper History. Proceedings of the International Association of Paper Historians (IPH) 36th Biennial Congress, edited by P. Engel et al. (Horn/Wien, Verlag Berger, 2023): 87-105.
Weislogel, Andrew C., and C. Richard Johnson, Jr. “Decision Trees and Fruitful Collaborations: The Watermark Identification in Rembrandt’s Etchings (WIRE) Project at Cornell.” In Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt’s Etchings, edited by Andrew Weislogel and Andaleep Banta, 32-57. Ithaca, New York: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2017. https://museum.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/DecisionTrees-WeislogelJohnson2017-LinesofInquiry.pdf.
Presentations and Workshops
Ellis, Margaret H., C. Richard Johnson, Jr., and William A. Sethares. “Computational Characterization of Leonardo’s Papers.” Presentation at the international conference Decoding Leonardo’s Codices at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, in collaboration with the Museo Galileo, Florence, 10-12 October, 2019. https://vimeo.com/showcase/6528343/video/374148029.
Ellis, Margaret Holben, C. Richard Johnson, Jr., and William A. Sethares. “Coding Historical Papers: Identifying Sameness and Difference in Watermarks, Chain Lines, and Laid Lines.” Foundation for Advancement in Conservation Workshop, March 1, 3, and 5, 2021.
Ellis, Margaret Holben, and Abigail Slawik. “LEOcode: A Powerful Tool for Investigating Leonardo’s Papers.” Presentation at the conference Leonardo da Vinci’s Papers: Invention and Reconstruction at The British Library and Birbeck College/Warburg Institute, London, 18-19 May, 2023.
Johnson, Jr., C. Richard, Margaret Holben Ellis, and William A. Sethares. “Hunting for Paper Moldmates in Leonardo da Vinci’s Codices.” Presentation for The Digital Art History Lab Lectures, The Frick Collection, New York, NY, 18 February, 2021. https://www.frick.org/interact/paper_moldmates.
Sethares, William, and Elisa Ou. “LEOcoding the Codex Madrid.” Presentation at the conference Leonardo da Vinci’s Papers: Invention and Reconstruction at The British Library and Birbeck College/Warburg Institute, London, 18-19 May, 2023.
Sethares, William, Abigail Slawik, Elisa Ou, Margaret Holben Ellis, C. R. Johnson, Jr, “A Computational Study of the Internal Structure of Historical Papers: Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks.” Wolfram Technology Conference, Champaign, IL, October 2022.
Slawik, Abigail. “Using the Open-Source Paper Studies Suite to Identify Moldmates in Leonardo’s Papers.” LE STUDIUM Conference: Novel Approaches to Digital Codicology, Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, 10-12 May, 2023.
Slawik, Abigail, Margaret Holben Ellis, C. Richard Johnson, Jr., and William A. Sethares. “Presenting LEOcode: An Online Compendium of Watermarks Found in Leonardo’s Papers.” 6th International Conference on Watermarks in Digital Collections, Fabriano, Italy, May 2022.
Publications Related to Paper and Papermaking
Albro, Sylvia Rodgers. Fabriano: City of Medieval and Renaissance Papermaking. New Castle and Washington, D.C.: Oak Knoll Press and The Library of Congress, 2016.
Baker, Cathleen A. “Papermaking by Hand and by Machine.” In From the Hand to the Machine, 34-50. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Legacy Press, 2010.
Bernick, Elizabeth H. “Drawing Connections – New Discoveries Regarding Cesare da Sesto’s Sketchbook.” Master Drawings 57, no. 2 (2019): 147-196.
Bidwell, John. “The Study of Paper as Evidence, Artefact, and Commodity.” In The Book Encompassed, edited by Peter Davison, 69-82. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1998.
Briquet, Charles-Moi͏̈se. Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dés leurs apparition vers jusqu’en 1600, 4 volumes. Geneva: A. Jullien, 1907. Corpus Chartarum Fabriano (website). Fondazione Fedrigoni Fabriano. Accessed February 6, 2020, http://www.fondazionefedrigoni.it/.
Harris, Neil. Paper and Watermarks as Bibliographical Evidence, 2nd ed. Lyon: Institut d’histoire du livre, 2017. http://ihl.enssib.fr/sites/ihl.enssib.fr/files/documents/Harris_Paper%20and%20Watermarks.pdf.
Heumiller, K., S. Choi, J. Stenger, and C. Graham. “Post Processing of Reflectance Transform Imaging for Isolation of Surface Impressions.” Archiving 2016: Final Program and Proceedings, 15-20. Springfield, VA: Society for Imaging Science and Technology, 2016.
Hinterding, Erik. “Chapter 1: Rembrandt’s Papers.” In Rembrandt as an Etcher: The Practice of Production and Distribution, vol. 1, 15-65. Ouderkerk aan den IJssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2006.
Hinterding, Erik, J. Rutgers, and G. Luijten. “Introduction.” In The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700, “Rembrandt, Text I, 1625-1635, Nos. 1-153”, xlvi – lxvi. Ouderkerk aan den IJssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2013.
International Association of Paper Historians. International Standard for the Registration of Papers With or Without Watermarks, Version 2.1.1 (2013). Basel, Switzerland: The Association. Accessed online July, 2021. http://www.paperhistory.org/Standards/IPHN2.1.1_en.pdf.
The Memory of Paper (website). Bernstein Consortium. Updated November 27, 2019. http://www.memoryofpaper.eu.
Needham, Paul. “The Study of Paper from an Archival Point of View.” IPH Yearbook 7: Papers of the 19th International Congress of Paper Historians, Durham and Hertford, 4-10 September 1988 (1988): 122-136.
Needham, Paul. “Concepts of Paper Study.” In Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks: Essays from the International Conference on the History, Function, and Study of Watermarks, Roanoke, Virginia, edited by Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan II, 1-36, New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2000.
The Needham Calculator 1.0 (website). The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Accessed July 15, 2021. http://needhamcalculator.net.
Kitty Nicholson, Making Watermarks Meaningful: Significant Details in Recording and Identifying Watermarks, The Book and Paper Group Annual, Vol. 1, The American Institute for Conservation, 1982.
Richardson, Brian. Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Stevenson, Allan. “Chain Indentations in Paper as Evidence.” Studies in Bibliography 6 (1954): 181-195.
Stevenson, Allan. “Watermarks Are Twins.” Studies in Bibliography 4 (1951/1952): 57-91, 235.
Tanselle, G. Thomas. “The Bibliographical Description of Paper.” Studies in Bibliography 24 (1971): 27-67.
Wasserzeichen-Informationssystem (website). The German Research Foundation. Accessed February 6, 2020, https://www.wasserzeichen-online.de/wzis/projekt/index.php.
Zonghi, Aurelio, and Augusto Zonghi. Zonghi’s Watermarks: The Watermarks Collected by A. & A.
Zonghi as Traced from the Original Papers by C. Canavari, Monumenta chartæ papyraceæ historiam illustrantia, vol. 3. Hilversum, Holland: The Paper Publications Society, 1953.
Publications Related to the Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci
Bambach, Carmen C. Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019.
Bambach, Carmen C. “On the Role of Scientific Evidence in the Study of Leonardo’s Drawings.” In Leonardo da Vinci’s Technical Practice: Paintings, Drawings and Influence, edited by Michel Menu. Paris: Hermann, 2014.
Barone, Juliana. “Introduction,” in Leonardo in Britain: collections and historical reception: proceedings of the International Conference, London, 25-27 May 2016, ed. Susanna Avery-Quash and Juliana Barone (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki editore 2019), xxv-xxvi. https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/leonardo-in-britain-intn.pdf.
Barone, Juliana, ed. Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion, exh. cat. London: The British Library, 2019.
Blyth-Hill, Victoria. “Conservation Treatment of a Leonardo da Vinci Manuscript.” Preprints of Papers Presented at the Tenth Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 26-30, 1982, Washington, D.C.: American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 113-123.
Calvi, Gerolamo. Il codice di Leonardo da Vinci (idraulica e cosmografia) della Biblioteca di Lord Leicester in Holkham Hall, pubblicato sotto gli auspici del Reale Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, Milan, Premio Tomasoni. Milan: L.F. Cogliati, 1909.
Calvi, Gerolamo, I manoscritti di Leonardo da Vinci dal punto di vista cronologico, storico e biografico, Bologna: Zanichelli, 1925 (reprint: Augusto Marinoni (ed.): Busto Arsizio: Bramante, 1982).
Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. The Leonardo da Vinci Codex Hammer: the property of the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California: Friday, November 11, 1994. New York, N.Y.: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc.
Clayton, Martin. Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing. London: Royal Collection Trust, 2018.
Donnithorne, Alan. Leonardo da Vinci: A Closer Look. Exploring the Beauty and Complexity of Leonardo’s Drawings through a Study of his Materials and Methods. London: Royal Collection Trust, 2019.
Farago, Claire. “The Codex Leicester.” In Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman, edited by Carmen C. Bambach, exh. cat. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003, 191-201.
Farago, Claire, Martin Kemp, Owen Gingerich, and Carlo Pedretti, eds. Codex Leicester: A Masterpiece of Science, exh. cat. New York, NY: American Museum of Natural History, 1996.
Galluzzi, Paolo. Water as Microscope of Nature: Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester. Florence: Giunti, 2018.
Geddes, Leslie A. Watermarks: Leonardo da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
Laurenza, Domenico. “The Compilation of the Codex Leicester: An Insight into Leonardo’s Research Style,” in Decoding Leonardo’s Codices, Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, 10-12 ottobre 2019, P. Galluzzi, A. Nova eds., Marsilio, Venezia, forthcoming.
Laurenza, Domenico, and Martin Kemp, eds. Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester: A New Edition. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019-2020. https://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780198832874.book.1/actrade-9780198832874-work-1.
Menu, Michel, ed. Leonardo da Vinci’s Technical Practice: Paintings, Drawings and Influence. Paris: Hermann, 2014.
Musée du Louvre. Léonard de Vinci: Dessins et manuscrits, exh. cat. Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003.
Pedretti, Carlo. A Chronology of Leonardo da Vinci’s Architectural Studies after 1500. Geneva: E. Droz, 1962.
Pedretti, Carlo. The Codex Atlanticus of Leonardo da Vinci: A Catalogue of Its Newly Restored Sheets, 2 vols. New York: Johnson, 1978.
Pedretti, Carlo. The Codex Hammer of Leonardo da Vinci, translated into English and annotated by Carlo Pedretti. Florence: Giunti Barbèra, 1987.
Pedretti, Carlo, and Carlo Vecce. Il Codice Arundel 263 nella British Library: edizione in facsimile nel riordinamento cronologico dei suoi fascicoli. Florence: Giunti, 1998.
Pedretti, Carlo. The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, Jean Paul Richter, ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977.
Richter, Jean Paul, ed. The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, 3rd ed. London and New York: Phaidon, 1970.
Spadaccini, Benedetta, ed. Leonardo da Vinci e il suo lascito: gli artisti e le tecniche, exh. cat. Milan, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, 2019.