Skráningarfærsla handrits

Parchment.

There are 9 gatherings with 8 leaves in each. The 4 loose leaves presumably formed the 1st part of the 10th gathering.

The manuscript is written in 2 columns throughout. There are rubrics in red, and interlinear notes. Translations written in a younger hand occur at several places.

There is a lacuna at the end of the manuscript.

The name of the first scribe is Thorgerus Haquini, and his hand also occurs in AM 302 fol

The hand of the second scribe is from the second half of the sixteenth century is similar to the one in AM 288 fol. The marginialia are written in this hand.

The flourished initials have various colours. The large ones are red, blue and green. The smaller initials are blue and red, green and red, and green and brown.

Marginalia from the second half of the sixteenth century are found at several places and are mostly extracts of other law texts.

The manuscript is written in Norway c. 1300. This dating corresponds to the one given by Gustav Storm Norges gamle Love indtil 1387IVs. 539 and Asgaut Steinnes Asgaut Steinnes 1964s. 35 whereas Kristian Kålund has dated the manuscript less precisely to the beginning of the fourteenth century.

According to one of the inserted AM-slips the manuscript belonged toAnna Krukov, and passed on toAnders Nilssen, mayor in Bergen, who was married to Karine Teiste, daughter of Jon Teiste and Anna Krukov. Later on it belonged to Hans Tieste, Lawman in Stavanger 1585-91, and in 1682 to M. Schanchius.

• Microfilm (master), Neg. 851, from júní 1990.
• Microfilm (archive), Pos. 770, from júní 1990.
• 70 mm, 44, from 1965.
• Diapositives from febrúar 1984.
• Black and white prints from október 1965.