MSHL received funding to make additions to the electronic catalogue of manuscripts, handrit.is.
A total of 1.216 new manuscripts were registered in the database in 2023 and 2024.
The website provides access to a number of manuscripts from different periods. The oldest manuscripts date back to the 12th century, while the youngest were written on paper in the 20th century.
Handrit.is is an electronic catalogue of manuscripts preserved in the National and University Library of Iceland, the Árni Magnússon Institute in Reykjavík and the Arnamagnæan Institute in Copenhagen. The catalogue also includes descriptions of manuscripts housed at the Swedish Royal Library, the Archives of the Icelandic Alþingi, the National Museum of Iceland and the National Archives of Iceland, as well a number of manuscripts in private ownership. The manuscripts are primarily Icelandic, but there are also important collections of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Faroese material, as well as around 100 manuscripts of continental provenance. Catalogue records are produced in TEI-conformant XML (P5).
The project was supported by the Infrastructure Fund.
