Manuscript Detail

Parchment.

The manuscript is written in 2 columns with the exception of the first 2 and last 5 leaves, which are written in 1 column.

There are several defects and Árni Magnússon has marked some of them on the bottom margin of the previous page. The folios 19, 23, 28, 29 have been damaged due to trimming of the outer margin and 78, 84 have been trimmed in the lower margin. 1r is blank.

The initials are in various colours and there are rubrics in red.

Written in Norway between 1320-1360.

• Fols 1r-83v were dated c. 1350 ( Storm 1885 543 , Landrö 1969 21, 67 and Robertsen 1979 138 )
• Fols 84r-85v were dated c. 1330 ( Storm 1885 539 and Seip 1955 332 ).
• At the beginning of the manuscript, an addition written in the second half of the sixteenth century ( Storm 1885 543 ) is found.

The owners are mentioned on 85v : asmunder …sigurderson . Another owner Jacop lauriszon who owned the manuscript in 1576 is mentioned on 1v, and according to the first AM-slip the name and date Carl Andersen anno 1575 was written on the old binding, when Árni Magnússon acquired the manuscript.

According to the same AM-slip the manuscript finally came into the possession of gehejmeråd Matthias Moth who acquired it from Norway, and he gave it to Árni Magnússon.

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

• Microfilm (35 mm. suppl., master), Neg. 617, from 1981.
• microfilm (35 mm. suppl., archive), Pos. 568, from 1981.
• 70 mm 70 from 1981.
• Diapositives from February 1984
• Black and white prints from March 1981 (supplementary prints from September 1981 exist).