Skráningarfærsla handrits

Parchment.

11 gatherings consisting of 8 leaves; the last quire, however, consists of two leaves.

The manuscript is written long lines with 27 ruled lines per leaf.

The first and the last leaves show traces of exposure to damp, and the bottom margin of f. 76 is torn. According to the AM-slips, the manuscript once contained four leaves comprising a list of bishops for Nidaros and short pieces concerning ecclesiastical affairs. These were, however, damaged due to exposure to damp and Arní Magnússon transcribed these and thereafter removed the damaged leaves. (Árni Magnússon's transcriptions are now catalogued as AM 683 b 4to and Addit 7 e 8vo).

The manuscript is written in a Gothic bookhand from the beginning of the fourteenth century.

The initials are red and blue, and there are rubrics and running titles in red.

There are four AM-slips a-d:

• a:Hier aptanvid hfdu vered nockur pergaments bld. Þar á hafde sidan skrifad vered med hndu eigi gmlum eitt og annad reattarbota rusl i bagadre Norsku. Eg skar þese bld burt, og uppskrifade þad sem á var skrifad separatim, eydilagdi bldin. Apographa mea alibi habeo.
• b:Framanvid þessa lgbok voru þá eg bokina eignadizt) innbunden 4 pergaments blod jafnstór bokenne. og sást til residius annarra 4ra i kilnum, sem burt voru skorenn. hafde i fyrstu vered 1 quer innihaldende 8 bld. A 1sta bladenu var Series Episcoporum provinciæ Nidrosiensis, ritud á bádum sidum, circa 1336 eda 1340(er so þesse lgbok elldre)1). 2ad, 3ia 4da blden innehielldu Exorcismos aqvæ, salis etc. i Latinu, og sidarst á 4da bladenn (þess sidare sidu) var ritad: Register paa de Casus, hvor den hellige kirke forbyder sin hegn og Beskiermelse, i gamalle Dnsku, enn miklu nyrra enn allt hid fyrra. Sidare 4 blden af þessu qvere voru, sem sagt er, burtskoren, þá eg bokena eignadizt, og stodu þeirra reliqviæ epter i kilnum, aptan vid prádenn, sem þau hfdu med innbundenn verd. Þesse 4 bld sem tilbaka voru (hverra contenta nu eru uppreiknud) tok eg hiedan burt ur bokinne, voru þau og af fua skiemd storliga, so vida lítt lesen urdu, og sumstadar lldungis ecki.
• c:Ecki er þetta podeicticum; þvi þesse 8 bld kynni vera elldri enn bokin, og sidar bundin saman vid hana. Þo ætla eg sem ádur, ad boken sie ad visu eins gmul sem blden, ef ecki elldri. Þad meira er, þad er likast ad þetta hafi skrifad vered framan vid bokina. innbundna, þvi hnden á Exorcisimis synest ecki ad vera so gmul sem lgboken sialf eda fyrrnefnd Series Episcorum; helldr sidar ritud á audt pergament sem verd hafi framanvid bokina, ætlad i fyrstu skannske fyri Rettar botum, sem ut kynne koma. Var og þad gamla bokarinnar badn geyse gamallt, Trui eg so, ad banded sem á var, þá bokin mier i hendur kom hafi sialft elldra vered enn 1340. Eg liet bókina nmbinda. Endelega kynni þesse 8 bld framan vid bokina hafa staded aud aptanvid hana, ætlud fyri Rettarbotum (og iafn liklegt er þad á skrifud verd Series Episcoporum, sidan Exorcismi þar aptan vid. Tandem bokin á ny innbundin, og þau 8 bld flutt framan vid bokina. Er so banded þad gamla, yngra, enn lgboken ad visu elldre en 1340. og so mun þetta vera.
• d:Þessa bok feck eg 1712 hia Monsieur Torfarsyne, enn hann hafdi hana feinged i Kaupenhafn, pá hann þar sidarst var. hia gullslagare einum. Eg hefi þad hia mier annarstadar annoterad á sedle, hia hueriu, hann hana feck eptir þeim sem hann feck bokina hia. Þesse sedill liggr nu (1721) hier hia: Gullslagarenn selldi Þormodi bok i fyrra var (1707) i storu 4to. Heil keypt á Rasmus Rasmussens auction. Þormodr gaf þar fyrir 2 sl- daler. Þad var gulaþings bok ssegir Magnus Arason, helldr hun mune lacera vared hafa.

The manuscript is written in Norway and has been dated to the first quarter of the fourteenth century.

On fol. 1r is written the name Th. Torfæus and according to the AM-slips a goldbeater bought the manuscript at the auction of Rasmus Rasmussenand in 1707 he sold it to Torfæus.

• Microfilm, Pos. 570 (archive), from 1981
• Microfilm Neg. 619 (master), from 1981
• Diapositives from mars 1984
• 70 mm, 67, s.d.
• Black and white prints from mars 1981 (supplementary prints from nóvember 1981 exist).