VATNSFJÖRÐUR-MSS

Silvia Hufnagel

Feb 161 min read

Behind the Scenes

Together with our cooperation partners from the National and University Library of Iceland and our external contractor from the...

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

Dec 20, 20231 min read

It's Christmas!

Seasonal greetings

Silvia Hufnagel

Aug 15, 20232 min read

Quire signatures, watermarks and repair reports

Today we’ll introduce a paper manuscript that puzzled us for quite a while: Reykjavík, The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies...

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

Jun 17, 20183 min read

WELCOME TO PAPER TRAILS!

A research project on post-medieval Icelandic manuscripts and books Welcome to the first blog of our research project "Paper Trails:...

Silvia Hufnagel

Jun 17, 20183 min read

Paper Trails in Iceland: The Vatnsfjörður-Manuscripts

A great number of manuscripts were commissioned by ths powerful and wealthy Vatnsfjörður-family in seventeenth-century western Iceland....