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AM 78 4to

Norwegian Legal Manuscript ; Norway, 1300-1315

Note
According to Storm (Storm 1885 571) AM 56 4to and AM 78 4to originally belonged to the same manuscript. An electronic, diplomatic edition of the entire manuscript can be seen at Menota (Horn, Kristinréttir, Landslǫg Magnúss Hákonarsonar, Bǿjarlǫg Magnúss Hákonarsonar ok réttarbǿtr).
Language of Text
Old Norse

Contents

1 (1ra-8va)
Borgarþingslǫg: Kristinnréttr hinn forni
Bibliography

Halvorsen & Rindal, De eldste østlandske kristenrettene

Keyser & Munch, Norges gamle Love I p. 339-352 Ed. A

Text Class
Canon law
2 (8vb)
Minor Legal Texts
Text Class
Laws ; Law
2.2
Formula for Peace at the Bergen Assembly
Text Class
Laws
2.3
On the Sanctity of the Oath
Text Class
Law
3 (9ra-29rb)
Kristinnréttr Jóns erkibiskups
Bibliography

Keyser & Munch, Norges gamle Love II Var.app. B.

Text Class
Canon law
4 (29va-46rb)
Kristinnréttr Sverris
Note

Preceded by a table of contents and letter on excommunication.

Text Class
Canon law
5 (46r-v)
Formula for a Councillor´s oath
Language of Text
Norwegian (primary); Latin
Text Class
Laws
6 (46v)
Explanations
Note

Explanations on the church law and country law by D. Nicolaus Hemingius , a Latin verse on sapientia 's power to conquer instrumenta belli , and a note on atuiſtem en j mans ſlekt .

Language of Text
Norwegian (primary); Latin
Text Class
Law
7 (47ra-68r)
Bergen Municipal Law with Farmannalǫg
Incipit

„ íj luti. en biarm enn þriðíu n g “

Note

Beginning is defective; one leaf is missing.

Text Class
Laws
8 (68ra-70vb)
Réttarbœtr
Text Class
Laws
8.1 (68ra-68vb)
Réttarbœtr Hákonar Hákonarsonar
Text Class
Laws
8.2 (69ra-70vb)
Réttarbœtr Eiríks Magnússonar
Explicit

„ ſkulu þ eir oc lagha ſækt f iri “

Bibliography

Keyser & Munch, Norges gamle Love III Var. app. I.

Text Class
Laws

Physical Description

Support

Parchment .

No. of leaves
70. 276 mm x 205 mm .
Layout

Two columns. Red rubrics, somewhat heavily decorated initials in different colors. Blank spaces in the manuscript are filled out in a hand from the 1500s .

Condition

The manuscript is defective in the end, and there are several other defects. On several leaves the bottom margin is damaged. In the last part of the manuscript the writing has been touched up here and there.

Script

Same hand as in AM 302 fol., AM 305 fol. and AM 56 4to.

Additions

Several additions in the margin of variants from other manuscripts, some in the hand of Árni Magnússon F. 56 is added by Árni Magnússon.

Between ff. 13 and 14 Árni Magnússon has added a paper leaf (4to) with part of Mag. Hans Gås 's Danish translation of Ærkebiskop Jons kristenret .

Accompanying Material

There are 3 AM-slips.

History

Origin
Written in Norway . Kålund ( Katalog I p. 389 ) has dated the manuscript to The beginning of the 1300s, while Grøtvedt ( Lydverket i lovhåndskrifter fra Borgartingslag 1300-1350 p. 7 ) and Steinnes ( Rygjarbit p. 35 ) have both dated it to ca. 1300 .
Provenance
An older binding reveals that in the 1500s the manuscript belonged to the Icelandic lögmaður Ormur Sturluson and thereafter Pouel Helie ſon in 1577.
Acquisition
From the three AM-notes we know that Árni Magnússon bought the manuscript in Bergen in 1689 from Paul Paust. Árni Magnússon removed several paper leaves that belonged to the manuscript. These now form AM 330 fol.

Bibliography

Author: Horn, Anna
Title: Kapitteltitler og funksjonalitet i Magnus Lagabøtes Landslov, Arkiv för nordisk filologi
Scope: 124
Author: Horn, Anna
Title: The Scribe and his Exemplars: A Comparative Study of Four Manuscripts by Thorgerus Haquini, Studia Neophilologica
Scope: 86:1
Title: Kristinréttir, Landslǫg Magnúss Hákonarsonar, Bǿjarlǫg Magnúss Hákonarsonar ok réttarbǿtr
Editor: Horn, Anna
Author: Storm, Gustav
Title: Christiania Videnskabsselskabs Forhandlinger, Om Haandskrifter og Oversættelser af Magnus Lagaböters Love
Scope: XIV
Author: Halvorsen, Eyvind F., Rindal, Magnus
Title: De eldste østlandske kristenrettene: Tekster etter håndskrifterne, med oversettelser, Norrøne tekster
Scope: 7
Title: Katalog over Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling
Editor: Kålund, Kristian
Author: Maurer, Konrad
Title: Studien über das sogenannte Christenrecht König Sverris
Title: Norges gamle Love indtil 1387
Editor: Keyser, R., Munch, P. A.
Scope: I
Title: Norges gamle Love indtil 1387
Editor: Keyser, R., Munch, P. A.
Scope: II
Title: Norges gamle Love indtil 1387
Editor: Keyser, R., Munch, P. A.
Scope: III
Title: Norges gamle Love indtil 1387
Editor: Storm, Gustav
Scope: IV
Author: Grøtvedt, Per Nyquist
Title: Skrifter utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo. Hist.-Filos. Klasse, Lydverket i lovhåndskrifter fra Borgartingslag 1300-1350: Med et tillegg om sørøstnorske diplomer
Scope: II
Author: Steinnes, Asgaut
Title: Rygjarbit,
Scope: p. 21-37
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