Icelandic Scribes: Results of a 2-Year Project

TY - GEN

T1 - Icelandic Scribes: Results of a 2-Year Project

AU - McDonald Werronen, Sheryl

N1 - Conference code: 3

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - This paper contributes to the conference theme of History and introduces an online catalogue of an early modern library: The main digital output of the author's individual research project "Icelandic Scribes" (2016-2018 at the University of Copenhagen). The project has investigated the patronage of manuscripts by Icelander Magnús Jónsson í Vigur (1637-1702), his network of scribes and their working practices, and the significance of the library of handwritten books that he accumulated during his lifetime, in the region of Iceland called the Westfjords. The online catalogue is meant to be a digital resource that reunites this library virtually, gives detailed descriptions of the manuscripts, and highlights the collection's rich store of texts and the individuals behind their creation. The present paper also explores some of the challenges of integrating new data produced by this and other small projects like it with existing online resources in the field of Old Norse-Icelandic studies. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 654825.

AB - This paper contributes to the conference theme of History and introduces an online catalogue of an early modern library: The main digital output of the author's individual research project "Icelandic Scribes" (2016-2018 at the University of Copenhagen). The project has investigated the patronage of manuscripts by Icelander Magnús Jónsson í Vigur (1637-1702), his network of scribes and their working practices, and the significance of the library of handwritten books that he accumulated during his lifetime, in the region of Iceland called the Westfjords. The online catalogue is meant to be a digital resource that reunites this library virtually, gives detailed descriptions of the manuscripts, and highlights the collection's rich store of texts and the individuals behind their creation. The present paper also explores some of the challenges of integrating new data produced by this and other small projects like it with existing online resources in the field of Old Norse-Icelandic studies. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 654825.

UR - http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2084/

UR - http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2084/shortplus3.pdf

M3 - Conference article

SN - 1613-0073

VL - 2084

SP - 179

EP - 187

JO - CEUR Workshop Proceedings

JF - CEUR Workshop Proceedings

T2 - Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference

Y2 - 7 March 2018 through 9 March 2018

ER -