„ þeir hfþv egi gáþ at fylgia konvngi heim “
„Oc nv gengr æiʀikr “
Olafur Hálldórsson, Jómsvíkinga saga
af Petersens, Jómsvíkinga saga
Rafn, Antiquités Russes II s. 126
Rask & Rafn, Fornmanna sögur XI, s. 1-162
Paper.
Written in one column with 25 to 32 lines to each page. Majuscules appear in red or green. Rubrics in red, some of which are now illegible.
The manuscript is, to some extension, well preserved but at several places it is damaged. The manuscript ends defective and one leaf is missing after f. 37. At some places the vellum has become so dark or the writing has become so effaced that reading is made difficult or impossible. The bottom of f. 8 is damaged and several leaves have small tears.
Contemporaneous marginal notes are found on ff. 7v and 18r.
Bound in a modern standard half binding.
The codex is written in Iceland. Kristian Kålund dated it to the second half of the thirteenth century ( Katalog ) a date he subsequently revised to the end of the thirteenth century ( Kålund 1905 No 30.
On fol. 57v in his catalogue of Icelandic parchment manuscripts, AM 435 a 4to, Árni Magnússon wrote that he got the codex from Bær (Gaulverjabær), from Sveinn Torfasson: Jomsvikinga saga, non integra. 4to. Mig minner eg hafe feinged hana fra Bæ, fra Sveine Torfasyne.
Catalogued 03-07-2000 by EW-J.
Photographed in 1967.
During conservation 16.06.1970-24.09.1970 the manuscript was bound in a modern standard half binding by Birgitte Dall.
Exhibited at the Royal Library 08.11.1963-06.01.1964.
Exhibited at an exhibition at the National Museum Viking og Hvidekrist 10.03.1992-15.03.1993.
Lent to The Royal Library in Copenhagen for the use of Jesper Düring Jørgensen.