Manuscript Detail

Parchment.

Paginated 1-174 by Jón Sigurðsson.

The manuscript is made up of eleven quires + one leaf. Originally the quires were of eight leaves each.

The leaves have suffered some damage due to exposure to damp and moths.

• The first two, presumably blank, leaves are cut out.
• Only the first leaf and a slip of the last leaf are preserved. The leaves in between these are cut out. Árni Magnússon cut out three leaves of this quire.

Written in a large script by Thorgerus Haquini (Þorgeir Hákonarson). The same hand also wrote AM 305 fol., AM 56 4to and AM 78 4to (Norges gamle Love IV 473).

Large, flourished initials with the first line of each main section consisting entirely of initials. Flourishing in contrasting colour. See e.g. fols 1r and 12r.

Initials (2-3 linjes) with flourishing in contrasting colour.

Rubrics and colour-stroked initials in red ink.

Occasional younger marginalia:

• In the open space before the explicit (of Réttarbœtr Eiríks Magnússonar) a sixteenth century-hand added: In proprias laudes odiosa jactatio est. O M.
• In the bottom margin of fol. 62r, a hand from c. 1400 wrote: læirhæims skogh (Lørenskog, Romerike).
• In the first half of the sixteenth century, one of Eske Bille's scribes added notes in the margins throughout the manuscript. E.g. fol. 6r Om Steffning, p. 86 Om Godtz ligger lx wedtther eller lenger: thet bliffuer odall, fol. 45r Odall igjenn att løse indenn lx wettre, fol. 76r Kiøb som breff og Segl er paa giort thet scall holdis wid macht.