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

Dear all, I hope you are all healthy and doing well in self-isolation and with home office. Since many of you, including me, cannot go on...

Wash your hands is the new worldwide credo, and rightly so, as it can prevent the spreading of the Corona virus SARS-CoV-2. Washing hands...

One year ago I wrote about the oldest paper charters and manuscripts of Iceland, and this blog post is about the watermark that I found...

For the watermark inclined paper enthusiast there are several powerful portals, databases and applications that are, or hopefully will...

Making discoveries is perhaps the biggest goal of every scholar and scientists. The paths leading to such discoveries can be very varied....

Recently Paper Trails Iceland went to a conference in Cork, Ireland. Watermark specialists gathered from 16th to 18th October for the 5th...

In September, Paper Trails Iceland participated in the Ligatus Summer School for European Bookbinding, taught in Austria by the eminent...

August and early September is the time when school starts again and when we get swamped with advertisements of special offers for school...

Watermark imaging forms an important part of Paper Trails, as it is the basis for our research on paper trade as well as for establishing...

To start with the bad news: we have hardly any information on paper trade. But I found a manuscript which contains a little bit of...

Read about how a librarian from Germany is connected to Iceland, and get some inspiration for your vacation in Iceland! Heinrich Erkes...

Our last blog was about Guðbrandur´s Bible, printed in 1584. Who would have thought that actually two copies of that work are kept at...

On this day, 448 years ago, Guðbrandur Þorláksson was consecrated as bishop of Hólar, Iceland‘s northern diocese. During his 56 years in...

Paper was only one of several writing materials that supplanted parchment and wax tablets. Writing tables or table books were an Early...

Iceland has a particularly rich and long-lasting manuscript culture. Over the centuries several important changes took place, such as the...

Dear all, I hope that 2018 has ended well and that New Year‘s Eve led to a great start into the new year. A popular tradition at the...

Summer is traditionally a busy time for academics, filled with conferences and preparations for the new academic year. This year, the...

Today, we want to talk about one of our project's three men who collected Icelandic books and manuscripts. We promise: all three of them...

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

Although paper came already in the fifteenth century to Iceland, we do not know where it was produced or who sold it. In our research...