Manuscript Detail
AM 327 4to
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Sverris saga; Norway or Iceland, 1290-1310
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CURLSpecial character shown similar to its original form.
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOUBLE ACUTESpecial character shown similar to its original form.
Contents
Sverris saga
AM 79 fol. is a copy of the manuscript and was commissioned by Árni Magnússon and written by Ásgeir Jónsson.
Icelandic
Prologue
“prologus”
“Her hefr upp oc segir fra þeim tiðidum er nu | hava verit”
“er verit ha|va i fornæskio”
Sverris saga
“her hefr upp Sogu Sverʀis konungs”
“Hʀoi byscop var i þann tima i Fær eyiom”
“at litit var til matarins annat en”
Rafn, Antiquités Russes vol. II p. 77 (Fol. 5r:20-22), 77 (Fol. 31v:13-23), 77-78 (Fols 58v:17-59r:6), 78-79 (Fol. 65v:7-17)
Physical Description
Parchment.
Two leaves are missing at the end of the codex and there are two lacunae, each taking up one leaf. The first is after fol. 85, the second after fol. 86. Blank pages have been inserted between fols 85 and 86, and fols 86 and 87, and after fol. 92 for indication of the loss of text. The bottom margin of fol. 92 is cut away.
The manuscript is written in long lines with 32 lines per page. Contemporary rubrics in red. Chapter numbering and references to the content from c. 1600.
Pen-flourished initials and plain majuscules occur in varying colours.
- The margins have several references to the content from the sixteenth century.
- The originally blank fol. 1r bears several small notes, and a hand from the fourteenth century wrote: “a mik |vel matu sea mik log hmadr sem | laa oc gak bort I fra”. The name of the owner once appeared at the beginning of the verse, but has later been rubbed out.
- There is a great number of other marginal notes in the manuscript, some of them (viz. at the bottom of fols 22v, 32v, 40v and 69v) are more or less effaced.
- Fols 25v-26r have references to a larger part of the content in Danish.
- Fols 1r and 59r have 1 1/2 and 1 line, respectively, written in runes; the runes are more or less rubbed out.
- Fol. 1r has an owner's verse in Old Norse and Latin and a Prayer to the Virgin in Latin (both from the fourteenth century; prayers to the Virgin are found elsewhere in the codex.
- On fols 48v and 55v-56r partly obscene verses in Latin occur.
- Fols 29v and 35v> bottom margins have fantasy-coat of arms.
- Fols 33v and 34r have flowers.
- Fol. 34r has also a picture of a crowned king holding an axe. Most probably this is a picture of King Olav
- Fol. 63r has a funny sketch of an old man with a long beard.
- Fols 51r, 52r and 53r have man's heads drawn by the same man.
- On fols 76v and 84v another man has drawn man's heads.
- Fol. 83r, bottom margin, has a crowned lion
- On fols 38v, 46v, 66v and 69v there are incomplete drawings of animals.
History
The manuscript was written in Norway or Iceland c. 1300. The manuscript is thought to be written in Norway by an Icelander
Names of owners are found in the margins of fols 34r, 55v and 57r.
- Fol. 1r: “Jstud opus afgerus fecit” whereas the name of the owner is rubbed away.
- Fol. 55v, top margin: “Þæssa bok a ældridh”.
- Fol. 34r, top margin: “fra Þoro sendr herra Sigurði logmanni” is written.
- This note can be compared with a form letter on fol. 69v written by “Sigurder”.
- On fol. 57r the name “Sigurðr presbyter Guðlaux son” appears.
In his catalogue of Icelandic parchment manuscripts, now known as AM. 435 a 4to, Árni Magnússon tells the following of the codex on fols 40v-41r: “Sverris saga 4to. elegans Codex, | mutilus in calce. Þessa bok | feck eg i Biorgvin af Mag. Ed-|vard Edvardsyne, Conrectore þar. Sverris sogu þessa 4to. hefi | eg uppskrifada in fol. med hendi Asgeirs [i.e. AM 79 fol.] og | fer hun med mier til | Danmerkur, nu 1708. | Sr Jon Halldorsson i Hitar-|dali, hafdi hana til lans | fra mier 1710. og skrif-|adi af henni Copiu firi sig.”
Additional
Catalogued 17 May 2000 by EW-J.
70 mm 70mm71 s.d. microfilm (master) Neg. 619 1981 Supplementary photographs microfilm (archive) Pos. 570 1981 Supplementary photographs 70 mm 70mm218 s.d. Supplementary photographs in uv-light of fols 1r-2r. diapositive AM 327 4to May 1984 Fol. 59v b/w prints AM 327 4to June 1980 Prints from the first set of photographs: 70mm71. b/w prints AM 327 4to November 1981 Prints from the second set of photographs (supplementary): Neg. 619 and Pos. 570.
Bibliography
| Author | Title | Editor | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saga Sverris konúngs, Fornmanna sögur | 1824; VIII | ||
| Sverris saga etter Cod. AM 327 4to | ed. Gustav Indrebø | p. 1-191:19 | |
| Antiquités Russes | ed. C. C. Rafn | II: p. 77 (Fol. 5r:20-22), 77 (Fol. 31v:13-23), 77-78 (Fols 58v:17-59r:6), 78-79 (Fol. 65v:7-17) | |
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| James E Knirk | “Eierne av AM 327 4to på slutten av 1500-tallet”, | 1981; p. 58-60 | |
| James E. Knirk | “Fanden ta deg! Amen! To runenotitser i AM 327 4to”, | 1981; p. 51-57 | |
| Katalog over Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling | ed. Kristian Kålund | I: p. 570-571 | |
| Stefán Karlsson | “Islandsk bogeksport til Norge i middelalderen”, | 1979; 1979: p. 1-17 |
