Paper reuse

Silvia Hufnagel

5 days ago2 min read

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

Sep 193 min read

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

Jun 172 min read

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....

Beeke Stegmann

Jul 14, 20232 min read

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, 20232 min read

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...

Lotte Devoldere

Apr 17, 20232 min read

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

Dec 23, 20222 min read

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, 20222 min read

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...