02 · The label
Collector attribution
Whose hand wrote this unsigned label?
- Status
- Specified, unbuilt
- Field
- Empty — nobody is doing this
- Who wants it
- History of science, provenance research.
Why it matters
Many old sheets carry no collector name. Handwriting style matched against known exemplars can restore the attribution, and rolls up into a network graph of who collected with whom.
What it needs
Exemplar sets per collector, which the catalogue can bootstrap from signed sheets.
State of the art
Rare. Adjacent work exists in manuscript studies.
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