Chronografia | Det er | En kort Beſkriffuelse, om alle de Konger | Hertuger Grefuer og Adel, | Borgmeſter og Raad | Biſper og Proiuſter Som hafve regerit | i Sverigs rige ind til Kong Johans tid | hvil|chen nu er en Herre der ofver der | mand Skref Anno Christi 7. mars 1586. | Proverb 28 | Propter peccata terræ multi Principes ejus
„Gud som alting hafuer skaft menniskerne til goede“
„i den acht at de motte hafue“
The language is Swedish with a strong Danish influence and spelling
The texts starts with the following message: Alle dennem som denne Chronika lesende eller hörende vorde önsker jeg Olaus Petri predickere i Stockholm Sänderis kundskab
The chronicle stops in the middle of year 1508.
Paper with watermark.
The fore edge of the leaves are untrimmed.
There are a couple of stains on the paper, mostly in the margins. The paper has been cleaned.
The ink bleeds through the paper.
The manuscript has suffered some damage (mostly on the lower part) due to moisture and fungus.
Written by Ásgeir Jónsson.
The initials were written slightly larger than the main text (1-2 lines) and are partly flourished.
There is red and blue colouring on the top and bottom edges.
Marginal notes occur Torfæus's hand.
There are reddish-brown underlinings in the text.
The current binding is a half binding with a parchment spine; the boards are covered in yellowish-brown marbled paper. Size of binding: 431 mm x 313 mm x 30 mm. The spine is from Árni Magnússon's time (ca. 1700-1730) while the marbled paper dates from Kålund's (ca. 1911-1913).
The boards were formerly covered in reused parchment leaves from an antiphonary which were taken off and replaced with the marbled paper . The leaves have been transferred to Access. 7 (Hs 40).
An AM-slip (130 mm x 105 mm) is attached to the verso-side of the first front flyleaf of the manuscript. Árni Magnússon has written on it: Fra Sal. Assessor Thormod Torfasons Enke 1720.
The manuscript was probably written in Norway. Kålund dates it to ca. 1700 ( Katalog I s. 163 ).
The whole manuscript, of which this was a part, was given to Árni Magnússon in 1720 by Torfæus's widow. Thormodus Torfæus probably commissioned the manuscript, since it was written by his scribe Ásgeir Jónsson.
Catalogued 20. október 2015 by BS.