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A material history of 15th-17th century paper used for
Icelandic handwritten and printed texts from
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Silvia Hufnagel
Nov 132 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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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