Les sceaux : conservation et communication : des concepts...

Notes: Resumen: Archives collections hold numerous wax seals, most of them dating back to the middle Ages, which leads to a truly problematic question: how one can conciliate their preservation with public disposal? In order to give an answer to this constraint, French National Archives, relying on a very ancient know how in wax seals restoration, propose three solutions. The first one, dating back to the middle of the 19th century, is the creation of vast collections of moldings, 3D copies allowing prints studies. The second one is the scanning and on-line publishing of numerous seals documents. This solution doesn't allow the isolation of the seal from the document on which it is appended. The third one, originally initialized in the aim of creating a permanent circuit in the archives museum, uses facsimiles. Wax seals workshop, with different techniques chosen according to the print which is going to be reproduced, in total respect with the original
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