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

In the last few months we were rather quiet as we had a truly busy time. But now things have calmed down and we can present some of our...

The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic StudiesReykjavik, Iceland 19-20 June, 2025 During the last decades, printed catalogues of...

by Beeke Stegmann As part of our project investigating the third life cycle of paper—its reuse—we have been examining all of Árni...

On 27-28 August people from ten institutions in seven different countries (on two continents) convened in Cork, Ireland, to present their...

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

By Beeke Stegmann As described in our previous blog post, we are systematically going through charter copies in the Arnamagnæan...

By Beeke Stegmann The third life cycle of paper that is investigated in our project "Life of Paper" focusses on reuse of...

by Lotte Devoldere For our Life of Paper project, we are using the VCEditor, a software that allows us to visualise individual manuscript...

Happy Þorláksmessa, merry Christmas and a very festive season! The 23rd December is known as Þorláksmessa, the Mass of St Þorlákur who is...

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...