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A material history of 15th-17th century paper used for
Icelandic handwritten and printed texts from
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Call for Papers: 8th International Conference on Watermarks in Digital Collections
The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic StudiesReykjavik, Iceland 19-20 June, 2025 During the last decades, printed catalogues of...
Silvia Hufnagel
Jan 152 min read
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A Mysterious Book Auction in Copenhagen
by Beeke Stegmann As part of our project investigating the third life cycle of paper—its reuse—we have been examining all of Árni...
Silvia Hufnagel
Nov 13, 20242 min read
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Use and Reuse of Paper in the Pre-Industrial World
On 27-28 August people from ten institutions in seven different countries (on two continents) convened in Cork, Ireland, to present their...
Silvia Hufnagel
Sep 19, 20243 min read
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Land Registers and Waste Paper
On this fine Icelandic National Day (hip hip hooray!), we’ll look at a manuscript that contains drafts of a jarðabók, a land register....
Silvia Hufnagel
Jun 17, 20242 min read
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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
Jul 14, 20232 min read
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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...
Beeke Stegmann
Jun 15, 20232 min read
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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...
Lotte Devoldere
Apr 17, 20232 min read
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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
Dec 23, 20222 min read
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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
Nov 4, 20222 min read
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