Launched at NOVA FCSH the website that brings together several databases – MARCMUS

MARCMUS – Studies of music paper and handwriting in Portugal (18th and 19th centuries): the case study of the Fundo do Conde de Redondo, is a project that aims to systematically record and digitally preserve the watermarks and paper- types (the conjunction of the watermark and the number and size of staves drawn by rastra) of the music manuscripts. It will also record the literary and music handwritings of the copyists and composers involved (preliminary research has shown that the collection possesses a significant number of autographs).

The project now has a website with NOVA FCSH domain that will allow free access to the resulting relational databases (watermarks / paper-types and handwritings). The watermark and paper-type database will also become available at the Bernstein Project: the Memory of Paper, the largest international project of its kind (in 10 languages) which includes 56 collections and more than 320,000 researchable watermarks from 22 countries.