A material history of 15th-17th century paper used for
Icelandic handwritten and printed texts from
production to use and reuse

On this fine Icelandic National Day (hip hip hooray!), we’ll look at a manuscript that contains drafts of a jarðabók, a land register....

I ended the last blog with a comment that some low paper quality phenomena carry names inspired by the human body, perhaps because paper...

On the last day of the conference in Verona in September 2023 we visited the paper museum in Toscolano near Lake Garda. One of the...

It is soon Easter, and one of the symbols of the Resurrection of Christ is the Lamb of God, or Agnus Dei in Latin. The image of a lamb as...