Bréfritari : Jón Helgason
Viðtakandi : Magnús Gíslason
Dated 8. janúar 1763.
The index is only concerning items 2, 5, 6, 7 and 9 of the manuscript but gives, on the other hand, informaton about both content and scribes. The index is thought to be written by Sigurður Magnússon of Holt who most possibly owned the manuscript. He also wrote the notes of item 3 (fol. 16v) and item 4 (fol. 19v). See below.
From the seventeenth century. According to a later addition on the verso (16v) this is the author's autograph.
Written ca. 1700. On fol. 19v a later addition reads: þeſsa ork ſkriꝼade s m Hallgrymur Js (corrected to Jón Þorláksson) a Beruneſe.
Skrevet efter en Gula þings Bok på pergament.
I uddrag. Ifølge indholdsfortegnelsen er dette stykke skrevet af profaste Sr Olafe Einarssyne fordumm a Kyrkiobæ i hierade half-broder hr. Odds bps
„Nockꝛaꝛ Gꝛeineꝛ og Articulaꝛ aꝼ chriſten riette wt | dregnaꝛ“
ſkꝛiꝼad vꝛ Raudſkinnu.
„greynir vr sendi brefi biskups Olafs heytins Hialltasonar og Arna saluga Gislasonar af cristin rietti hinum gamla“
Héraðsprotokoll. Begins and ends defectively. Written 1723 by two different hands. According to the index, these belong to the sýslumenn Þorsteinn Sigurdsson and Jens Pétursson Wíum.
Ends defectively. According to the index this item is written by the sýslumaður at that time (1734), Skúli Magnússon.
„Hieꝛ skꝛiꝼast pijſlaꝛ Pſalmaꝛ: sex ad | tolu og siondu aꝼ gꝛeptrunaꝛ hiſtoriunni“
Ender defekt i fjerde salme. Forfatterens autograf
The second and third lettes were used as material for the pastedowns.
Bréfritari : Sýslumaður Marteinn Rögnvaldsson
Viðtakandi : Rev. Páll Ámundasson
Dated Eiðar 10. mars 1683
Bréfritari : Sigurður Jónsson
Viðtakandi : Sigurður Magnússon of Holt
Dated 13. nóvember 1775
Bréfritari : Ásgrímur Hallson
Viðtakandi : Sigurður Magnússon of Holt
Dated Barð 2. febrúar 1776.
The index on fol. 2v is written by Sigurður Magnússon.
Fols 3r-15v were most possibly written by bishop Jón Árnason.
Fols 16r-v were in all probability written by Hallgrímur Pétursson.
Fols 21r-26r are possibly written by the priest Ólafur Einarsson.
Fols 47r-54v are written by two different hands. The first has been identified as the sýslumaður Þorsteinn Sigurdsson's hand,
the second as the sýslumaður Jens Pétursson Wíum's hand.
Fols 62r-67v were written by Stefán Ólafsson.