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

Dear all, Here is the programme for the 8th International Conference on Watermarks in Digital Collections. You can also find the...

In the last few months we were rather quiet as we had a truly busy time. But now things have calmed down and we can present some of our...

The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic StudiesReykjavik, Iceland 19-20 June, 2025 During the last decades, printed catalogues of...

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...

The analysis of paper use is one of our main aims in our project Life of Paper . The bréfabækur  of Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson...

On 27-28 August people from ten institutions in seven different countries (on two continents) convened in Cork, Ireland, to present their...

On this fine Icelandic National Day (hip hip hooray!), we’ll look at a manuscript that contains drafts of a jarðabók, a land register....

We are very excited to share this Call for Papers for a colloquium that we are jointly organising with the University College Cork,...

For our Life of Paper project we investigate, among other aspects, the production of manuscripts, particularly through analyses of quire...

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...

by Lotte Devoldere For our Life of Paper project, we are using the VCEditor, a software that allows us to visualise individual manuscript...

An important part of Life of Paper is the analysis of quire structures* in combination with watermark analysis and textual contents of...

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...