Silvia Hufnagel
Paper mills and paper historians
The 7th International Conference on Watermarks in Digital Databases was held in Verona, Italy, this year, and on the last day of the...
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A material history of 15th-17th century paper used for
Icelandic handwritten and printed texts from
production to use and reuse
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Silvia Hufnagel
- Aug 15
- 2 min
Quire signatures, watermarks and repair reports
Today we’ll introduce a paper manuscript that puzzled us for quite a while: Reykjavík, The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies...
Beeke Stegmann
- Jul 14
- 2 min
Árni Magnússon and century-old paper
By Beeke Stegmann As described in our previous blog post, we are systematically going through charter copies in the Arnamagnæan...
Beeke Stegmann
- Jun 15
- 2 min
Reuse of 17th-century paper in Iceland
By Beeke Stegmann The third life cycle of paper that is investigated in our project "Life of Paper" focusses on reuse of...
Silvia Hufnagel
- May 15
- 2 min
New publication: Paper Stories
A few weeks ago our book Paper Stories – Paper and Book History in Early Modern Europe was published. It is based on the conference that...
Lotte Devoldere
- Apr 17
- 2 min
Visualising the physical structure of manuscripts: VisColl
by Lotte Devoldere For our Life of Paper project, we are using the VCEditor, a software that allows us to visualise individual manuscript...
Silvia Hufnagel
- Feb 28
- 2 min
Quire structures, watermarks and manuscript production
An important part of Life of Paper is the analysis of quire structures* in combination with watermark analysis and textual contents of...
Silvia Hufnagel
- Dec 23, 2022
- 2 min
Þorlákur and Cardboard
Happy Þorláksmessa, merry Christmas and a very festive season! The 23rd December is known as Þorláksmessa, the Mass of St Þorlákur who is...
Silvia Hufnagel
- Nov 4, 2022
- 2 min
Welcome to Life of Paper
As many of you might already know, a new project on paper in Iceland has started earlier this year: Life of Paper. In Life of Paper we...
Silvia Hufnagel
- Dec 23, 2021
- 2 min
Þorláksmessa and Þorlákur's Bible
Today, Þorláksmessa, the Mass of St Þorlákur, is celebrated in Iceland. Born in Hlíðarendi in 1133, Þorlákur Þórhallsson was ordained as...
Silvia Hufnagel
- Nov 17, 2021
- 2 min
Paper and Parchment
When paper was on the rise and began to supplant parchment, some manuscripts were made of both materials, paper and parchment. In these...
Silvia Hufnagel
- Sep 20, 2021
- 2 min
Paper Seals
Welcome back to Paper Trails’ blog! Part of the summer was spent in the manuscript vaults of Iceland, and we have returned with exciting...
Silvia Hufnagel
- Jul 15, 2021
- 2 min
Weapons of Steel vs Weapons of Paper and Ink
In my last blog entry I wrote about the paper uses of the last Catholic bishop of Skálholt, Ögmundur Pálsson, and of his Lutheran...
Silvia Hufnagel
- Jun 20, 2021
- 3 min
Paper, a Catholic Bishop and His Lutheran Successor
The rise of paper in Iceland is connected to several bishops. In this post, I will focus on two bishops of Skálholt: Ögmundur Pálsson,...
Silvia Hufnagel
- May 25, 2021
- 1 min
Watermarks and Music
On 21-22 May I was kindly invited to participate with a presentation in the virtual conference “Wasserzeichen und Musikwissenschaft”...
Silvia Hufnagel
- Apr 20, 2021
- 2 min
Lost Books
In the recent online conference Care & Conservation of Manuscripts 18, my colleague Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson gave a lecture on lost...
Silvia Hufnagel
- Mar 16, 2021
- 2 min
When did paper become common?
Today, we find paper everywhere. But when did it become common in Iceland? The earliest uses of and references to paper stem from the...
Silvia Hufnagel
- Feb 15, 2021
- 2 min
Paper and Parchment Recycling
Early modern paper was made of rags, as I have written in the last blog entry, and was thus a true recycling product. Even though the...
Silvia Hufnagel
- Jan 15, 2021
- 2 min
The Stuff that Paper is Made of
I was once asked why there have been no paper mills in Iceland. I started explaining that there was hardly any linen clothing available,...
Silvia Hufnagel
- Dec 15, 2020
- 2 min
Cartapesta in Kaupangur
For December Paper Trails has a special present for you: a devotional relief, depicting the Adoration of the Magi. The three Magi have...
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