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

August and early September is the time when school starts again and when we get swamped with advertisements of special offers for school...

Watermark imaging forms an important part of Paper Trails, as it is the basis for our research on paper trade as well as for establishing...

To start with the bad news: we have hardly any information on paper trade. But I found a manuscript which contains a little bit of...

On this day, 448 years ago, Guðbrandur Þorláksson was consecrated as bishop of Hólar, Iceland‘s northern diocese. During his 56 years in...

Paper was only one of several writing materials that supplanted parchment and wax tablets. Writing tables or table books were an Early...

Iceland has a particularly rich and long-lasting manuscript culture. Over the centuries several important changes took place, such as the...

A research project on post-medieval Icelandic manuscripts and books Welcome to the first blog of our research project "Paper Trails:...

Although paper came already in the fifteenth century to Iceland, we do not know where it was produced or who sold it. In our research...