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AM 238 VIII fol.

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Lives of Saints; Iceland, 1425-1450

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Name
Kålund, Kristian Peter Erasmus 
Birth
19 August 1844 
Death
04 July 1919 
Occupation
Librarian, scholar 
Roles
Scholar 
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Name
Foote, Peter 
Birth
1924 
Occupation
 
Roles
Scholar 
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Name
Stefán Karlsson 
Birth
02 December 1928 
Death
02 May 2006 
Occupation
Scholar 
Roles
Scholar 
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Contents

1(1ra-1vb:30)
Sebastíanus saga
Incipit

“þeira petrs ok pals”

Bibliography

Heilagra Manna Søgur II, pp. 228-235

Language of Text

Non

2(1vb:31-43)
Hallvarðs saga
Explicit

“þar heiter ? vellí. sem hann bio”

Bibliography

Heilagra Manna Søgur I, p. 396:7-15

Language of Text

Non

3(2)
Jóns saga baptista
Incipit

“vid. leingstvm var hann”

Explicit

“hon for sidan”

Language of Text

Non

Physical Description

Support

Parchment.

No. of leaves
2. 292 mm x 225 mm
Foliation

Once part of a larger codex, the leaves were foliated “xc”, “xciiij”.

Layout

Written in double columns with 43 lines pr column. Majuscules and rubrics in red.

Script

Written by Ormur Loptsson.

Binding

Bound in a grey cardboard cover.

Accompanying Material

On the AM-slip Árni Magnússon comments on the similarity between the hand that wrote this fragment and the hand of AM 180 fol.

History

Origin

The fragment is written in Iceland. Kristian Kålund has dated it to the fifteenth century (KKKat), whereas Peter Foote (Foote 1962, pp. 11, 18) and Stefán Karlsson (Stefán Karlsson 1970, p. 137) have dated it more precisely to the second quarter of the fifteenth century.

Additional

Record History

Catalogued 23-05-2000 by EW-J. Parsed 28-03-2000.

Custodial History

Photographs in uv-light were taken in 1956

Supplementary photographs of the AM-slips of AM 238 I-XXIX fol. were taken in 1981.

The MS was set on meeting guards and bound in a grey cardboard cover 09-07-1958 to 02-03-1959 or 09-1961 to 10-1961.

Surrogates

plate plade38 1956 Taken in uv-light. microfilm (master) Neg 620 1981 Supplementary photographs of the AM-slips of AM 238 I-XXIX fol. microfilm (archive) Pos571 1981 Supplementary photographs of the AM-slips of AM 238 I-XXIX fol. b/w prints AM 238 VII fol. 1963 Copies of the set of photographs taken in uv-light. colour prints AM 238 VII fol. 1983 Supplementary photographs of ff. 1v-2r.

Bibliography

AuthorTitleEditorScope
Heilagra Manna Søgur: Fortællinger og Legender om hellige Mænd og Kvindered. C. R. Unger1877; I-II
Heilagra Manna Søgur: Fortællinger og Legender om hellige Mænd og Kvindered. C. R. Unger1877; I-II
Katalog over Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamlinged. Kristian Kålund
Lives of Saints: Perg. Fol. Nr. 2 in The Royal Library, Stockholm, Early Icelandic Manuscripts in Facsimileed. Peter Foote1962; IV
Opuscula IV, 1970; XXX
1956
1981
1981
1963
1983
Lives of Saints: Perg. Fol. Nr. 2 in The Royal Library, Stockholm, Early Icelandic Manuscripts in Facsimileed. Peter Foote1962; IV