Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Information Forms (hierarchy name)
5. information forms (objects)
6. document genres
7. [documents by function]
8. declaratory documents

Anotations

Scope note:

Documents in early modern institutions of higher education for announcing academic dissertations to be defended in public.These decorated broadsheets summarise the student’s conclusion. The aim of the engraved posters was mainly to advertise the disputation and to introduce the theses in question. The practice was mostly common in Catholic European countries: Italy, France, the Southern Netherlands, Germany and Austria.