Manuscript Detail

AM 238 XV fol.

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Lives of Saints; Iceland, 1450-1500

LATIN SMALL LETTER J WITH ACUTELATIN SMALL LETTER J WITH ACUTE

Special character shown similar to its original form.

Name
Kålund, Kristian Peter Erasmus 
Birth
19 August 1844 
Death
04 July 1919 
Occupation
Librarian, scholar 
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(1r:1-5)
Agnesar saga meyiar
Incipit

s heilsv. Agnes syndiz henne

Language of Text

Non

2(1r:6-1v:15)
Um hinn heilaga Vincentius
Language of Text

Non

3(1v:16-28)
Páls saga postola
Explicit

j vandlavpe fyrer borgar vegg”

Language of Text

Non

Physical Description

Support

Parchment.

No. of leaves
1. 230 mm x 160 mm
Layout

The leaf is written in long lines with 28 lines to the page.

Script

The leaf is written in an Icelandic Gothic bookhand.

Binding

The leaf is bound in a grey cardboard cover.

History

Origin

The leaf is written in Iceland. Kristian Kålund dates it to the fourteenth century (Katalog over Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling), whereas Stefán Karlsson (pers., 1983) dates it the second half 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 XI fol. 1963 Copies of the set of photographs taken in uv-light. colour prints AM 238 XI fol. 1983 Supplementary photograph of f. 2r.

Bibliography

AuthorTitleEditorScope
Katalog over Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamlinged. Kristian Kålund
1956
1981
1981
1963
1983