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The Provincial Law of Jutland — Jyske lov; Denmark, 1290-1310
Contents
The Provincial Law of Jutland — Jyske lov
A copy, AM 11 4to, has been made of this manuscript.
Danish
Preface — Fortale
“.LIBER. Ius.”
“Mæt logh scal land byggæs. en wildæ | huar man oruæs at syt eghet oc latæ | men nytæ iafnæt”
“Biscop. Gunner .i. wibiargh. oc biscop. iones. | i. wendæle. oc biscop iones .i. hetheby. oc ther | til allæ beste menz rath ther .i. hans riki | ware”
The Provincial Law of Jutland (Main Part) — Jyske lov (Hoveddelen)
“Incipiunt capitula primi libri.”
Contents — Indholdsfortegnelse
“i Huilt barn erua skal.”
“liij Hwræ men skulæ mylnæ byggi.”
Skautrup, Danmarks gamle Landskabslove vol. II p. 507-529 Ed. A13
Law Text (Books I-III)
“Jncipit liber primus”
“Barn of thet worther cristnæth stande | arf. oc æi æller. worther skialneth .a. | huat lenger liuær mother eth barn | se cristneth.”
“ther ield settes | først .i. gialde antugh afeter skathen eth | legge wt then ther ield satte .i. først.”
Chapter on Sorcery — Trolddomskapitlet
“Of annæn man witer annen. at han hauer | for gørth hanum mæth troldom.”
“bothe for hyn thær sækthær. oc | swa fore byscop.”
Skautrup, Danmarks gamle Landskabslove vol. II p. 506 Ed. B1
Physical Description
Parchment.
The manuscript is foliated on the top-right corners.
The manuscript is written in long lines with 23 lines to the page. Rubrics are in red and pen-flourished majuscules in red or blue. There are column headings.
The manuscript is written in a Gothic Bookhand.
In the chapter on sorcery, the shade of the ink is lighter than the rest of the text and could therefore be a later addition.
Some marginal references are found. In the left margin of fol. 70v a profile of a man is found , and on fols 4v and 5v there are animals.
Bound in a parchment binding (an old sea chart) from the beginning of the eighteenth century (1700-1730) ; 222 mm x 160 mm x 33 mm. On the front fly-leaf Kristian Kålund has noted the date 14.08.1886.
History
The manuscript was written in Denmark. It has been dated c. 1400 by Kristian Kålund (Katalog vol. I p. 341). Later, Peter Skautrup dated the manuscript to c. 1350, except from the chapter on sorcery which he hesitatingly dates to the beginning of the fifteenth century (Skautrup 1933 p. xvi). However, all of the manuscript is now thought to date from as early as c. 1300 (Kroman 1943 p. 57).
Additional
Catalogued 11 March 2002 by EW-J.
Lent to The Danish National Archives (Rigsarkivet), Copenhagen, for the use of Erik Kroman 1957-58, 1959 (twice), 1961 (twice), 1965 and 1967.
Lent to The State and University Library (Statsbiblioteket), Århus, for the use of Peter Skautrup 1969-70.
Lent to The Provincial Archives of Northern Jutland (Landsarkivet for Nørrejylland), Viborg, November 1990 to August 1991, and later to The Royal Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek), Copenhagen, August to December 1991 for the exhibition, 730-året for jydske lov ( — The 730th Anniversary of the Provincial Law of Jutland).
