Manuscript Detail

Parchment.

Written in two columns. Majuscules occur in varying colours with the exception of the text of Vitæ patrum where the blank spaces have not been filled in.

The first thirteen leaves are missing and there are a few lacunae: between fols 3 and 4 two leaves are missing and another leaf is missing between fols 42 and 43. These lacunae are indicated by Árni Magnússon on two slips and in the margins.

Written by several hands. Unger (Postola1874 p. xxviii-xxix) suggested that the manuscript could be a composite of different manuscripts.

The originally blank fol. 83v and 85v have pen trials and the like. In the margin of f. 83v it says: snore ionson a míck. The lacunae between ff. 3 and 4 and 42 and 43, respectively, are indicated in the margins by Árni Magnússon.

There are four AM-slips written by Árni Magnússon.

• The first slip was originally pasted to the first flyelaf and reads: Baarlams Saga, vantar mikid | framanvid. fol. 1-54. | Mariu saga. fol. 55- + | Jons saga baptista. | Hieronymi vitas patrum | vantar mikid aptanvid.
• Two slips, originally inserted between the lacunae, read: Her vantar tv bld | sem verda fẏlld ur ex| emplarium i 4to (No. 230.) (between ff. 3 and 4);
• and: Her vantar 1 blad, sem | fẏllt verdur ur exemplarium i | 4to (6) (between ff. 42 and 43).
• The fourth leaf was pasted to the beginning of Jóns saga baptista: Her vantar framanvid | formala Grims prestz..

Written in Munkaþverá, Iceland, c. 1300, c. 1440, c. 1350, s. XV.

• Barlaams saga ok Jósafats (fols 1ra-54rb) is written c. 1300;
• Jón Ketilsson's posthumous debt on fol. 54v is written c. 1440,
• Maríu saga, Jóns saga baptista and Vitæ patrum (fols 55ra-83rb, 86ra-107vb and 108ra-121va) are all written c. 1350 but
• Framfǫr Maríu (fols 84ra-85va) is written in the fifteenth century.

The marginal note on fol. 83v indicates that Snorri Jónsson once owned this codex snore ionson a míck. According to Árni Magnússon’s account on ff. 9v-10r in AM 435 a 4to the manuscript belonged to Björn Magnússon of Múnkaþverá and that Guðbrandur Björnsson claimed that the manuscript belonged to his ancestors of Munkaþverá. The manuscript was subsequently was abandoned and left in one of the monastic houses of Munkaþverá.

The next owner Sveinn Torfason must have found it at Munkaþverá and kept it. He gave it to Magnús Jónsson of Leirá who in his turn gave it to Árni Magnússon: Bokin er in folio, komin til min 1698. fra Magnuſe Jonsſyne fra Leyrä. enn til hans fra Sveine Torfaſyne. hefr til forna vered i eigu Birns Magnusſonar ä Munkaþverä. id certum est, og lærde þä Gudbrandur Biornsson ä henne ad lesa. Baarlams Sgu etc. folio feck eg af Magnuse Jonssyne. þä hann var Studiosus i Kaupenhafn. Magnus hafdi feinged hana af Sveine Torfasyne. Sveinn sagde mier sidan, ad hun hefdi fundist burt kstud i Klaustur husunum ä Munkaþverä. Eg spurdi Gudbrand Biorns son um þessa Barlaams Sgu. Sagde hann, ad nefnd Saga in folio hefdi fyrrum vered ä Munka þverä i eigu fedr sins, og gat til, ad Sveinn Torfason mundi bokina funded hafa þar i hirdslum einhverium. Ber þessu so llu saman..

Árni Magnússon acquired the manuscript of Magnús Jónsson of Leirá i 1698. See AM 435 a 4to: Bokin er in folio, komin til min 1698. fra Magnuse Jonssyne fra Leyrä og Baarlams Sgu etc. folio feck eg af Magnuse Jonssyne. þä hann var Studiosus i Kaupenhafn.

• 70 mm, 70mm 80, s.d.
• 70 mm, 70mm 228, s.d.
• Plate, plade 86, s.d.
• Diapositives from April 1984.
• Black and white prints September 1968 (copies of plate 86).