Medieval cat paw prints on a document
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 115). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Insufficient evidence
Date or witness: Document dated 11 March 1445; paw-mark date not independently certain
Region: Dubrovnik / Ragusa
Workbook date-sort bounds: 1445 CE to 1445 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
Inky paw prints cross a government register in the Dubrovnik archives, famously noticed by historian Emir O. Filipović. They became a modern image of cats interrupting work across the centuries.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
Paw marks survive on an archival document.
What remains uncertain
An accident, with uncertain mark date, supplies no evidence of intentional cultural replication or medieval social transmission.
Workbook revision note: Reassessed using grassroots criteria