Manuscript Detail

AM 64 fol.

Sagas of Norwegian Kings ; Iceland, 1600-1699

Contents

1 (1r-62v:4)
Magnús saga góða
Rubric

„Hier Hefur Søgu | Magnus Köngs“

Incipit

„ Þ ar hefium vier upp fra søgu er | Jarizleifur kongur red firer Gardaʀi ok Ingigerdur“

Explicit

„einngi madur eirn hafe | meir stfőlginn verith allre alþijdu enn Magnus Kőonngur“

Final Rubric

Ok lijkur hier fra honumm at seigia

Language of Text
Icelandic
Text Class
Kings' sagas
2 (62v:5-114v:24)
Haralds saga harðráða
Incipit

„Sem Haʀalldur kongur kiemur aptur j Noreg“

Explicit

„Þa var Henrik kongur annar son | Wilialms bastardar.“

Final Rubric

Ok lijkur hier Soghu Haʀ|allds Sigurdarsonar. etc.

Language of Text
Icelandic
Text Class
Kings' sagas
3 (114v:25-124v)
Hemings þáttr Áslákssonar
Incipit

„ Þad er upphaf þessa mls | ath Haʀalldr kongur ried firer Noregi“

Explicit

„Og þar eru | þa bænumm Aslakur ok Biórn.“

Language of Text
Icelandic
Text Class
Kings' tales

Physical Description

Support

Paper.

No. of leaves
123. 283 mm x 190 mm.
Foliation

Contemporary pagination (1-246). Foliation in red ink (1-123) by Kristian Kålund.

Collation

There are catchwords on every 8th verso-side, starting with fol. 8v. On fols 2v and 58v there are catchwords, too.

Layout

Written in one column with 25 to 28 lines per page. Running titles.

Script

Written by Jón Erlendsson in a seventeenth century fracture-hand.

Additions

In the first part of the manuscript corrections occur. According to Jón Sigurðsson ( Catalogue of AM 1-239 fol. , AM 394 fol., fol. 54v) these are made by bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson and Árni Magnússon. On fol. 1r in the lower margin Sveinn Torfason stated his ownership: Þeßa sgubok ä eg Vnderskrifadur Sveirn Torfa|son Anno. 1695. His name is once repeated in the margin.

Binding

Bound in a pachment cover from 1700-1730; 291 mm x 194 mm x 38 mm Árni Magnússon wrote the title in black ink on the spine.
Accompanying Material

There are four AM-slips (a-d) inserted between the paste down and the first page, although (a) and (d) concern AM 41 fol. Slip (b) reads: Ur bök Sveins Torfasonar., and slip (c) reads: Sumstadar misskrifad.

History

Origin

The manuscript was written in Iceland in the seventeenth century.

Provenance

The manuscript once belonged to Sveinn Torfason who also wrote his name and the date 1695 in bottom margin of fol. 1r. Jón Sigurðsson ( Catalogue of AM 1-239 fol. , AM 394 fol., fol. 54v) assumes that the previous known owner, bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson, passed the manuscript on to the priest Torfi Jónsson of Gaulverjabær, who in his turn gave it to his son Sveinn.

Acquisition

Jón Sigurðsson (ibid.) also assumes that Árni Magnússon acquired the manuscript from Sveinn Torfason.

Additional

Record History

Catalogued June 15, 2006 by EW-J.
Custodial History
No information on an earlier restoration exists, however in connection with the binding of the manuscript, the leaves have apparently been restored with non-corrosive paper. In 1999 the leaves were dry-cleaned and a few minor repairs were carried out, also the binding was cleaned.
Surrogates

  • Microfilm (master), Gl.neg. 15, s.d. (before restoration).
  • Microfilm (archive), Gl.pos. 20, s.d. (before restoration).
  • Black and white prints, s.d. (prior to restoration).
  • Diapositives, Pocket 96 September 01, 1999 (photographs of the spine, upper board, lower board, front end-papers, opening: 73v-74r, headbands, and bottom section prior to restoration).
  • Black and white prints from September 02, 2001 (pictures of spine, upper board, lower board, front end-papers, spread: 73v-74r, headbands, and bottom section before restoration).
  • Diapositives, Pocket 99, from September 20, 1999 (portraits of the spine after restoration).
  • Black and white prints from September 21, 1999 (portraits of the spine after restoration).
  • Digital, Hard disk 1, from June 15, 2005 (spine).

Bibliography

Title: Hemings þáttr Áslákssonar,
Editor: Fellows Jensen, Gillian
Scope: III
Author: Jón Sigurðsson
Title: AM 394 fol.: Ræssonerende katalog over den Arnamagnæanske samlings håndskrifter nr. 1-239 fol
Title: Katalog over Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling
Editor: Kålund, Kristian
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