THURSDAY 5 MAY 2022

09:15–09:30 / SESSION A: National Museum of Iceland

WELCOME: Guðrún Nordal, director of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

09:30–10:30 / CHAIR: Guðrún Nordal
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 1: Heather Wolfe: Reconsidering John Spilman‘s paper legacy and the English white paper market

10:30–11:00 BREAK

11:00–12:00 SESSION 1: Paper analysis CHAIR: Silvia Hufnagel, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

Geoffrey Day: Frost Fairs and Laki: paper-making, printing and the climate in eighteenth-century London

Sonja Neumann: Mechanizing handmade paper: traditional and modern paper production in 19th-century Europe

12:00–13:30 LUNCH

13:30–14:30 / CHAIR: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Iceland / KEYNOTE SPEAKER 2: Dana Sajdi: The place of culture (from the perspective of the Arabic tradition)

14:30–15:00 BREAK

15:00–17:00

SESSION B: National and University Library of Iceland

SESSION 2: Object biography

CHAIR: Bragi Þorgrímur Ólafsson, National and University Library of Iceland

Maria Stieglecker: Traveling books: Johannes of Speyer and his autographs

Chiara Palandri: Missale Nidrosiense, 1519: an archaeological approach

Martina Hacke: Agents connecting the book markets of Basle, Paris and Lyons in late medieval times: the example of the agents of Johann Amerbach

Anna Svensson: Plants in paper: revisiting the early herbarium as history of the book

17:00 OPENING OF EXHIBITION AND RECEPTION: Ingibjörg Steinunn Sverrisdóttir, National Librarian, National and University Library of Iceland

FRIDAY 6 MAY 2022

09:00–10:30

SESSION A: National Museum

SESSION 3A: Vernacular literacy CHAIR: Viðar Hreinsson, Icelandic Museum of Natural History/Stefansson Arctic Institute

Davíð Ólafsson: Many pages, much ink: the materiality of writing in 19th-century Iceland

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon: The page: textual embodiment

Harpa Rún Ásmundsdóttir: From oral transmission and single sheets of paper to systematic collection of poetry

SESSION B: National Library

SESSION 3B: Watermark description CHAIR: Silvia Hufnagel, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

Ermenegilda Müller: Describing and representing watermarks from paper catalogues to online databases

Neil Harris: Watermarks and descriptive protocols: Briquet reloaded

Ilaria Pastrolin: Paper history and watermark studies: a European network before Europe, through Charles-Moïse Briquet’s labor

10:30–11:00 BREAK

11:00–12:30

SESSION A: National Museum

SESSION 4A: Vernacular literacy CHAIR: Davíð Ólafsson, University of Iceland

Indriði Svavar Sigurðsson: The mirror in miscellanies

Viðar Hreinsson: Harsh nature in tattered manuscripts

Dana Sajdi: Coif and tell: the barber historian of Damascus in the eighteenth century

SESSION B: National Library

SESSION 4B: Paper uses CHAIR: Beeke Stegmann, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

Paul M. Dover: The impacts of paper‘s abundance, 1450–1650: an episode in coevolution

Pádraig Ó Macháin: Paper and the format of Irish manuscripts

Gunnar Marel Hinriksson: The paper thief, the headmaster and comet C/1652 Y1

12:30–14:00 LUNCH

14:00–15:30

SESSION A: National Museum

SESSION 5: Watermark analysis CHAIR: Vasarė Rastonis, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

Silvia Hufnagel: Paper provenance and use in 15th- and 16th-century Iceland: an overview

Halldóra Kristinsdóttir et al.: Manuscript production in 17th-century Iceland: the case of Hannes Gunnlaugsson

Beeke Stegmann: The origin of added paper in structurally altered manuscripts of the Arnamagnæan Collection

15:30–16:00/ FINAL REMARKS: Þórunn Sigurðardóttir, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, and Ágústa Kristófersdóttir, head of collections, National Museum of Iceland

For a full programme, please see the conference website: https://papertrailsiceland.wixsite.com/papertrails/programme-paperstories-2022