Parchment.
The first column is almost cut off completely and fol. 1r only show faint traces of later additions.
A few lines written in red ink follow the prologue. Below Árni Magnússon has made an attempt to copy these.
On the originally blank fol. 1r, a hand from the sixteenth century wrote a love poem in six lines. Due to excising of the leaf, the last part of each line is missing. The poem is published in Johnsen & Jón Helgason, Den store saga om Olav den helligeII953 and Louis-Jensen, Marginalia poetica257. In the latter, an attempt to reconstruct the text has been made.
Further benath a single line reads: Gud vere med þier baudvar(?)