Detaljer om håndskriftet

Paper.

Foliated in the upper right hand corner. Due to an earlier mix-up of some leaves, the pages have been wrongly paginated, which was later corrected by Jón Sigurðsson

The four last leaves were not originally belonging to the manuscript. During an earlier binding, these leaves were inserted and during that process a good deal of leaves were confused. Jón Sigurðsson later added notes in the margins, stating the right order. This order has now been accomplished.

There are catchwords on fols. 18v, 26v, 38v, 46v, 47r, 54v, 57v, 62v, 70v, 78v, 79v, 80v, 81v, 84v, 85v, 101r, 102v, 103v, 104 r, 106 v and 123v. Some of them seem to have been added by another hand.

The manuscript is written in long lines with 23-34 lines per page, except for the riddle section of Hervarar saga with Björn á Skarðsá's comments (fols 101r-108v) which is written in two columns.

Spaces are left empty for initials.

The manuscript is rather damaged due to moist and wear; here and there it is restored.

The bulk of the manuscript is written by Jón Erlendsson, except for fols 87r and 94v:14-95r which are written in other hands.

There are several marginal notes, partly in Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson's (?) hand (Hervarar saga).

Árni Magnússon added the final lines of Þorsteins þáttur bæjarmagns on fol.123v.

Fols. 146-149 are later insertions, containing seventeeth century collector's accounts in Danish.

Written in Iceland in the seventeenth century.

As for example the sizes of the leaves are of unequal size, the manuscript is most probably a composite.

• Microfilm (master), Gl. neg 41, 1964(?) (before restoration).
• Black and white prints from 14. august 2001 (prior to restoration).
• Microfilm (supplement), Neg 1016, from 7. november 2001 (strips at the end of the manuscript).
• Black and white prints from 7. november 2001 (strips at the end of the manuscript).
• Diapositives (6x6"), 131 and 132, from 23. maj 2001 (portraits, before restoration).