Manuscript Detail

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.

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.

• 70 mm, 70mm98, from 1967.
• Diapositives from 1984.
• Black and white prints 210x300 mm from September 1967.