handrit.is

Catalogue of more than 15’000 manuscripts (12th–20th century) in Icelandic, Old Norse, Danish and Latin (plus a few other languages) with more than 4’000 manuscripts digitally available.

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Why it matters

handrit.is brings together manuscript holdings from major Icelandic and related collections and supports browsing, search, and institution-level discovery.

For researchers working on medieval and modern Nordic history, it offers a reliable starting point for locating manuscript witnesses and accessing digitized copies where available.

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