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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
Dec 161 min read
Paper and Playing Cards
A recent find of a playing card on the street reminded me that playing cards were immensely popular in the late Middle Ages and the Early...
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Silvia Hufnagel
Oct 162 min read
Paper and Legal Power
The analysis of paper use is one of our main aims in our project Life of Paper . The bréfabækur of Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson...
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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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Silvia Hufnagel
Jan 152 min read
Call for Papers: Use and Reuse of Paper in the Pre-Industrial World
We are very excited to share this Call for Papers for a colloquium that we are jointly organising with the University College Cork,...
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Silvia Hufnagel
Oct 18, 20232 min read
Quire structures, watermarks and felt- and sieve-sides
For our Life of Paper project we investigate, among other aspects, the production of manuscripts, particularly through analyses of quire...
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Silvia Hufnagel
May 15, 20232 min read
New publication: Paper Stories
A few weeks ago our book Paper Stories – Paper and Book History in Early Modern Europe was published. It is based on the conference that...
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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
Feb 28, 20232 min read
Quire structures, watermarks and manuscript production
An important part of Life of Paper is the analysis of quire structures* in combination with watermark analysis and textual contents of...
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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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