Noregs konunga sogr Snorʀa Sturlusonar
„Konunga sogr ero her ritaðar“
Copy of Jöfraskinna which was lost during the Copenhagen fire of 1728. Lacuna were filled in from two other manuscripts. The scribe wrote the details about the relation of this copy and the source texts in the margins.
„ Þessi bok var confererut (þo obiter) vid þær Membranas, Jofraskinnu, Kringlu og Guliskin n u sem hun er efftershrifud Anno 1698 “
Paper.
Written by Ásgeir Jónsson.
Marginalia concerning the transcripts relation to the source texts by Ásgeir Jónsson.
Occasional variants added by other hands and a few marginalia by Torfæus and Árni Magnússon.
Binding of calfskin with gilt, embossed motifs in the panels of the spine. Size of binding: 399 mm x 218 mm x 77 mm
The manuscript is most likely written in the period ca 1690-1697 while Ásgeir Jónsson was employed by Torfæus in Stangeland, Norway
(see Már Jónsson (2009)).