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This project analyzes the impact of the printing press on manuscript production in Iceland during the 16th and 17th centuries. It focuses on how printed features, particularly title pages, influenced the evolution of handwritten texts.
The influence of a the new medium of print on the old, existing medium of handwriting has never been examined before.
The printing press came already around 1530 to Iceland and the earliest printed books were strongly influenced by handwritten manuscripts, which is well documented. A phenomenon which has not yet been analysed is that, as time went on, books in return influenced manuscripts.
Manuscript production did indeed not stop after 1530, but grew to new quantitative and qualitative heights…
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