„Knytlinga Saga“
„Sweirn son Vlfs Jarls tök Jarldöm“
„Nälega hingad aa Nordur lönd.“
nu lykur hier ad seigia fraa Knytlingum.
Fols 102v-105v are blank.
Paper with watermark (coat of arms with lily and the letters "NRO" as a countermark).
The paper is relatively clean with only a few stains.
Fols. 1r, 8v-9r, 16v-17r etc. (i.e. the pages at the quire boundaries) are slightly darker and more stained than the rest. Fol. 1r is darker than the other pages.
The scribe has not yet been identified.
The initials on the first page span up to 3 lines and are richly decorated by means of, among others, flourishing, curls and bold lines.
Other initials are smaller (1-2 lines) and sometimes emphasised by means of bold lines or additional strokes and loops.
On the verso of the third front flyleaf, the note Hannc Chartiam Vigrensem Voco. et per. Vig. noto in brown ink can be read.
Fol. 69 is a small slip (50 mm x 97 mm) which is pasted onto fol. 70. It contains an addition to the text written by the scribe.
The binding is from Árni Magnússon's time (ca. 1700-1730). It is a parchment binding with laced-in single endband supports; the spine is covered in blank parchment, the boards with reused parchment in Latin. The text on the parchment is arranged in two columns and has numerous initials and decorations in red and dark red. On the spine, traces of two stickers for the shelfmark and the running title, respectively, are found. The pastedowns, as well as the flyleaves, are made of white handmade paper.
An AM-slip (165 mm x 105 mm) is attached on the recto-side of the third front flyleaf of the manuscript. One of Árni Magnússon's scribes wrote the following message, which was corrected and altered by Árni Magnússon: Knytlinga Sỏgu ä Vice Lỏgmadurenn, komna ur Vigur, Og skrifada epter þvi exemplari er Sira Helgi Olafsson kom med ur Sviariki annad hvert af Sira Helga sialfum eda ỏdrum, epter hans exemplare id nunc non meminit. er i 4to, byriar ä Sveini Kongi, (eins og Wormii charta., ,cujus apographum habeo). Relatio ipsius. Þadan mun Sira Vigfuss Gudbrands sonar exemplar vera. On the verso-side of the slip Árni Magnússon wrote: Lỏgmadrenn Pall Jónsson ä ennnu annad exemplar, in folio, komed sỏmuleidis fra Vigur.
The manuscript was written in Iceland. Kålund dates it to the second half of the seventeenth century (Katalog II, s. 290).
According to the AM-slip, Árni Magnússon had this manuscript from Páll Vídalín who had acquired it from Vigur.
Catalogued 22. október 2015 by BS.