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ALL watermarks that are visible in the six choirbooks have been traced and are depicted below. Wherever possible references are made to similar marks that can be found in watermark reference works. It should be pointed out that for watermarks 11, 14, 15 and 19 only similar examples have been located on large (Royal) paper size; all other references are to watermarks on smaller sizes of paper (Chancery paper). Many of the Leiden watermarks contain a small cloverleaf – the so-called trefle – which is the symbol of the town of Troyes and, as of 1428, a common characteristic of paper that was produced there.
Unfortunately, the watermarks could not be reproduced in their original sizes. Therefore, each watermark is printed here with two numbers expressing (in millimetres) the height of the watermark figure (H), and the distance between the chainlines of the watermark at the centre position of its figure (W).
No. 1 (mss. 1438, 1443)
Cloverleaf on top of shield with letter P, with name “C PINETE” below
Cf. C.-M. Briquet, Les filigranes. Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier des leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, ed. A.H. Stevenson (Amsterdam 1968), 4 vols., nos. 9871 (Utrecht 1545) and 9872 (Braunschweig 1546). Variants: Amsterdam (1545), Utrecht (1546), Leiden (1546–47), Brussels (1547–48), Hamburg (1547– 57), Namur (1548), Braunschweig (1548–50), Rotterdam (1548–51), Brabant (1549), Lüneburg (1549), Düsseldorf (1549), Bruges (1549–51), Antwerp (1549– 54), Béthune (1553), Lübeck (1553), Leeuwenhorst (1554).
No. 1b (ms. 1440)
Cloverleaf on top of shield with letter P, with name “N PINETTE” below Somewhat similar to Briquet no. 9872 (see No. 1).
No. 2 (ms. 1438)
Anchor in circle
Not in Briquet; not in Gerhard Piccard, Wasserzeichen Anker [Findbuch VI] (Stuttgart 1978); or Vladimir Mošin, Anchor Watermarks, Monumenta Chartae Papyraceae 13 (Amsterdam 1973).
No. 3 (mss. 1439, 1440)
Dolphin with cloverleaf
Cf. Briquet nos. 5841 (Utrecht 1552, Clervaux 1554, Brussels 1554–56, Vugt 1556) and 5842 (Wolbeck 1555, Braunschweig 1558). Variants of Briquet nos. 5841–5847 are found from 1553 to 1574 in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, France and Germany.
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