Anno domini MDLXXXVII LEC
„Hier Byrias Gutha Lagh“
„Thitta ier fyrst vphoff i laghum warom“
„oc sidan schriffas hier i.“
Gotländska studiers. 1-69
„Exaratum Anno 1587. 14. Calend: Iunij, per Dauidem Bilefeld Ecclesiasten Barlingboënsem ac præpositum Borealis TERTIANÆ. iuxta Tenorem Veteris Exemplaris Anno MCD.LXX: Scripti:“
„REGISTER paa forschreffen low.“
„Anno 1587. 19. Maij. D. B. C.“
There is foliation by the main scribe.
The manuscript is written in one column with 19 to 22 lines per page.
The dimensions of the written area are ca. 135 mm x 115 mm
Written by David Hansen Bilefeld.
There are enlarged initials of 2-4 lines, often highlighted with red.
There are additions added by the main scribe on fols. 1bisv, 7r, 7v, 9r, 10r, 11v, 12r, 21r, 21v, 22v, 25r, 25v, 36r, 37r, 37v, 41r, 45r, 46v, 54v.
Bound in vellum from before 1728. The binding measures 209 mm x 171 mm x 17 mm
There is an AM-slip pasted onto 1r. Árni Magnússon has written: Hæc ex LL Gotlandicis provincialibus penes Janum Rosæncranzium, habentibus capita 82; descriptis 1587 ex vetusto exemplari scripto 1470, quod ex pura lingvâ Norvegicâ depravatum esse clare patet, Titulus horam legum est Guthalag.
The manuscript was written on 19 May 1587 on Gotland (part of the Danish kingdom until 1645) by David Hansen Bilefeld, a priest from Jutland.
The manuscript belonged to Jens Rosenkrantz and was likely bought from his estate auction.
at some point the manuscript was lent to Otto Sperling the Younger, who copied it (Copenhagen, Royal Library, GKS 3363 4to).
Catalogued 4. september 2017 by SDV.