---
title: "Neil Harris"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Neil Harris"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Briquet Reloaded","Charles-Moïse Briquet","Ilaria Pastrolin","watermark dating methodology","Fabriano"]
tags: ["print-history","watermarks","historiography","book-history"]
seek_code_commit: "729ee25"
---


Book-history scholar (University of Udine) and co-author, with Ilaria Pastrolin, of "Briquet Reloaded" (2018), a project returning to Charles-Moïse Briquet's original working documents and unpublished tracings to re-verify the entries in his foundational 1907 watermark catalog *Les Filigranes*. Matters to this vault as the source of two separate load-bearing findings: that Briquet's own entry for the popularized "1282" Fabriano watermark date carries Briquet's own question mark and is sourced to Bologna rather than Fabriano, and that watermark-dating scholarship follows Allan Stevenson's "runs and remnants" rule — an isolated specimen is weaker dating evidence than a consistently marked run.

## References

- [[claim-briquet-entry-5410-earliest-watermark-question-mark-and-bologna-provenance]]
- [[claim-stevenson-runs-and-remnants-rule-explains-isolated-watermark-specimens-as-weak-evidence]]