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