Skráningarfærsla handrits

Parchment.

Foliated 1-116, including 40bis and 51bis.

Rubrics and initials in red ink.

Several parts have indication of music given in neumes. These consisted of a series of symbols drawn above the text, showing pitch direction and vocal ornament. Neumes was used in the early Middle Ages and preceded the present musical notation.

A parchment flyleaf added subsequently to the text carries a four-line erotic poem in Latin (from the seventeenth century).

Marginalia in Icelandic occur on fols 1r, 15v, 16r and 115v; marginalia in Latin occur on fols 40r, 54r, 97r and 106v.

The manuscript bear several witnesses of Icelandic provenance; for instance, the same hand (from the sisteenth century) added the following on the originally blank fol. 1r and at the bottom on fol. 115v, respectively: her ſkulv bíndazt vid .íííj blaud med bokfell. ſrifud and her ſkulu bindazt vid .úííj blaud oſkrifud med bok fell.