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Medieval Icelandic Manuscripts   Icelandic manuscripts,
particularly the medieval manuscripts housed at the Árni
Magnússon Institutes and the history of their duplication
through facsimile-making processes will be the focus of this
paper. A vast amount of research had to be undertaken,
collecting various sources in English and Icelandic, to compile
the history of facsimile productions. To my knowledge, no
compilation of the history of medieval Icelandic facsimile
production has written before, especially not to this breadth
and depth or in English. The first chapter will provide an
overview of the history of facsimile reproduction divided into
sections according to facsimile medium. The definition of
‘facsimile’ means a copy or reproduction of an original and
comes from the Latin fac simile translated as “make similar.”
For our purposes it will be specifically a copy of a manuscript
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