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AM 45 4to

Old Swedish Legal Manuscript ; Sverige, 1440-1499

Note
The manuscript consists mainly of legal texts but annalistic notes concerning Swedish history, recipes, etc. also occur.
Language of Text
Swedish

Contents

1 (1r-93r)
Magnus Eriksson's Municipal Law for Sweden
Bibliography

Sweriges gamla Lagar XI 1-401

Text Class
Laws
2 (93v-95v)
Thirty Days of Each Month
Rubric

„Her byrias aff trætighi dagha ther æro j hwart manadha skipte huilke dagha ther nyttelike æra til alt ophoff oc huilke som ey æra nyttelike“

Text Class
Almanacs
3 (96r-98v)
Remedies
Author

Henrik Harpestreng

Rubric

„Her byrias lækedomber aff mæsther henrik harpostræng“

Text Class
Healing
4 (99r-101v)
Mass of the Five Wounds
Rubric

„Miſſa De qvinq Wlneribus corporis Christi“

Language of Text
Latin (primary); Swedish
Text Class
Masses
4.1
Liturgical text
Incipit

„Nota tæſſo mæſſor ſculu latha ſighias“

Note

Six lines. After his text, two household remedies are found.

Text Class
Liturgics
5 (99r-101v)
On the Architecture of Germanic-Roman Empire
Language of Text
Swedish
Text Class
History
6 (103r)
Two Articles from Magnus Eriksson's Municipal Law for Sweden
Language of Text
Swedish
Text Class
Laws
7 (106r-108v)
Rules for Single Combat
Rubric

„Lex duellj sueca & Gotica“

Language of Text
Swedish
Text Class
Laws
8 (111r-113v)
Annalistic Notes Concerning the History of Sweden
Note

The notes concerning the years 1521-69 are in Swedish and the ones concerning the years 1533-50 are in Latin.

Language of Text
Swedish (primary); Latin
Text Class
Annals

Physical Description

Support
Paper.
No. of leaves
113; fols 104r-105v and 108v-110v are blank. 194 mm x 137 mm
Foliation

The manuscript has been foliated on the recto pages.

Condition

The number of chapters have been damaged due to cutting. The blank pages 104r and 103v have been glued together. Pieces of white paper have been pasted to the lower parts of 101v and 102v, apparently to delete some of the text.

Script

This first contemporary hand occurs on ff. 1r-42r:5.

This second contemporary hand occurs on ff. 42r-103r.

The third hand is from the sixteenth century and occurs on f. 103v.

Thr fourth hand is also from the sixteenth century and occurs on ff. 111r-113v.

Decoration

The manuscript has red rubrics, initials, chapter numbers and runnings titles.

History

Origin
Sverige, c. 1450 or s. XV2.

Additional

Record History

Catalogued February 21, 2000 by AWS.
Custodial History

The manuscript was photographed in 1988
Surrogates

The following copies are kept at The Arnamagnæan Collection in Copenhagen:

  • Microfilm (master), Neg. 770, from 1988.
  • Microfilm (archive), Pos. 705, from 1988.
  • Plate, Plade111 (supplementary photograph of fol. 76r).

Bibliography

Title: Corpus juris Sueo-Gotorum antiqui: Samling af Sweriges Gamla Lagar, Konung Magnus Erikssons Stadslag. Codex iuris urbici Magnæanus
Editor: Collin, H. S., Schlyter, C. J.
Scope: XI
Title: Samlingar utgivna av Svenska Fornskrift-Sällskapet, Läke- och Örte-Böcker från Sveriges medeltid
Editor: Klemming, Gustaf E.
Scope: XXVIII
Title: Katalog over Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling
Editor: Kålund, Kristian
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