Terminology

Stuttgart, 1st July 2008

Dr. Erwin Frauenknecht (Stuttgart)

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Watermark description standard

Piccard-Online: Internal problems WILC – Piccard-Online Thesaurus - Component model Thesaurus – Briquet

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Piccard-Online: Internal problems

„Vierfüßer“: Tetrapod – quadruped

„Vielfüßer“: Multiped - polyped

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 Ox Bull

Rod consisting in two lines Double line

Above cross Above latin cross

St. Anthony´s cross or T Letter Tau

Cross/leaf consisting in two lines Quatrefoil

Cross consisting in two lines Double line cross

Formy cross Maltese cross

Leaf/flower/tree [...] four-leaved Leaf/flower/tree [...] four-petalled

Horn, turned 90 degrees Horn, vertical

Paschal lamb, straight orientated Paschal lamb, horizontal

Cloverleaf four-leaved Quatrefoil

Cloverleaf trifoliate Trefoil

Conch Shell

With eight rays Eight-pointed

With six rays Six-pointed

Luminary, moon Luminary, crescent

   

WILC – Piccard-Online

Changes in Piccard-Online

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Changes WILC – PO

WILC

vertical

Piccard-Online

Turned 90˚ degrees

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PO 125298

Cross – letter Tau – without additional motif – turned 90 degrees

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PO 26946

Letter B – majuscle without angularity – turned 90 degrees – cross or star issuant out of the middle

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PO 43030

Serpent, consisting in one line, turned 90 degrees, wide winding

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Thesaurus and Component Model

Component model Thesaurus

elongated to the jaw elongated to the mouth

Stem rod

bevel oblique

2-lobed flower or leaf two-petalled

4-lobed flower or leaf quatrefoil / four-petalled

templar´s cross maltese cross

Threefoil trefoil

Brokeness brokenness / angularity

Curl Not yet in Thesaurus

Alignment Not yet in Thesaurus

Lateral Not yet in Thesaurus

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Thesaurus and Briquet

Comparison with the main motif groups (first level) in Briquet

35 new terms Example

Basilic (Briquet) – basilisk (Thesaurus) – cockatrice (Piccard-Online)

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PO 33482

Stick – with additional motif – Staff of Basel – with house and cockatrice

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