„Niaals Sꜷgu Bök“
„Mørdur hiet madur og var kalladur Gigja“
„Son Brennu-|flosa var kolbeijrn, Er ägiætastur | madur hefur Eirn vered i þeirre ætt “
„Skrifud Anno Xti 1770 ä Nijrdra Skälanese | I Vopnafyrde af Jacob Sigurdssijne“
og lükumm vier hier So | Brennu Niaals | SØGU
The saga is divided into 148 chapters.
„Lijtelvæg Liooda Vitnan | Yfer Søguna. “
„Niaala ber nafn af Niaale“
„Haar Ellda bifarz Kaara“
„Þad Vitnar JSigurdsSon Med Eigin Hendi“
The leaves that contain text are paginated 1-279 while the additional blank leaves are not. Fol. 1-v is blank, 2r-v contains text and is paginated 1-2, 3r-v is blank, 4r-v contains text and is paginated 3-4, etc.
The text is written in one column with 27-29 lines per page.
The inserted blank leaf between f. 278 (pp. 277-278) and 279 (p. 279) is missing.
Written by Jakob Sigurðsson. The main text is written in cursive. The headings are in fraktur.
Illuminated 15-lines-tall initial "M" on f. 2r.
Smaller 2-lines-tall flourished initials at the beginnings of chapters.
Fully bound bound in a light brown leather binding.
The spine has six panels, five of them are gilded with a floral motif, one has the embossed title NIALA.
The pastedown is made of marbled paper (red, blue, and white).
Written in Norður-Skálanes in Eastern Iceland, 1770.
The Arnamagnæan Collection in Copenhagen purchased the manuscript in the summer of 2002 in the "Søren Vangsgaards antikvariat".
Catalogued on 12. september 2018 by Katarzyna Anna Kapitan.