PAPER HISTORY 3/3

Silvia Hufnagel

Jul 15, 20192 min read

Quality and Quantity of Paper

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...

Silvia Hufnagel

Apr 8, 20192 min read

Bishop Guðbrandur Þorláksson‘s Paper Trails

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

Silvia Hufnagel

Mar 15, 20192 min read

Paper and Its Rivals

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

Silvia Hufnagel

Feb 20, 20192 min read

The oldest Icelandic paper documents and manuscripts

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

Silvia Hufnagel

Jun 17, 20183 min read

WELCOME TO PAPER TRAILS!

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

Silvia Hufnagel

Jun 17, 20183 min read

Paper Trails to Iceland: Watermarks and Paper Trade

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...