Manuscript Detail
AM 181 a fol.
View ImagesRiddarar sögur; Iceland, 1638-1652
Contents
Ívens saga
“Hier hefiast sỏgur af Artus kỏppum, og byriast | med Iuentz sỏgu”
Icelandic
Parcevals saga
“Hier heft Saga af | parceual Artus kappa”
Icelandic
Valvers þáttur
“Hier Byriast Walver|s þättur”
Icelandic
Physical Description
Paper.
Due to the fact that the manuscript is split up from a larger codex there are two kinds of foliation: the leaves are numbered 513-531, their position in the original codex, but they also have been renumbered 1-20.
Written in double columns except for the later inserted f. 1, which is written in long lines. There are no chapter headings, but each chapter is numbered, and a blank space is left for a large initial on the first word.
History
AM 181 fol is written at Útskálar, Iceland. Kålund dated it to the middle of the seventeenth century (Katalog over Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling), whereas Desmond Slay argumes that it was probably written between 1638 and 1652 (Slay 1972, p. 23a). Peter Springborg, however, puts forward that that the manuscript was mainly written in the 1640'es (Springborg 1977 p. 81-86).
Additional
Catalogued 22-02-2002 by EW-J.
Bibliography
| Author | Title | Editor | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katalog over Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling | ed. Kristian Kålund | ||
| Romances: Perg. 4:o Nr. 6 in The Royal Library, Stockholm, Early Icelandic Manuscripts in Facsimile | ed. D. Slay | 1972; X | |
| Peter Springborg | “Antiqvæ Historiæ Lepores: Om renæssancen i den islandske håndskriftproduktion i 1600-tallet”, | 1977; VIII: p. 53-89 | |
| Ívens saga, | ed. Foster W. Blaisdell | 1979; XVIII |