Manuscript Detail

Parchment.

The manuscript is foliated in red ink in the bottom margins by Kristian Kålund.

The book starts in gathering V:

• V: only the two final leaves are extant.
• VI: originally six leaves; the second leaf which was originally blank is cut out.
• VII: six leaves.
• VIII: originally six leaves, the third and fourth leaves are missing.
• IX: originally six leaves; the fifth leaf which was originally blank is cut out.
• X: originally six leaves; the second leaf which was originally blank is cut out.
• XI: six leaves.
• XII: six leaves.
• XIII: one leaf.
• XIV: six leaves.

Written in long lines throughout with 23 to 33 lines per page. Rubrics in red; the initials of the law sections are in red and green; the chapter initials are red or (occasionally) green/red. On fol. 43v there is a light brown/red initial.

The entire manuscript is written in a Gothic bookhand.

A later hand has written fol. 46v and the marginal notes.

On fol. 44r, below the text, the writer has added: Huer sæm þessa bok a þa bidi firer sæm ritaðe hona. | Qui pro alio orat prosemet ipse laborat.

There are also marginala written by the second hand. These are, however, defect due to trimming.

There is an AM-slip in Árni Magnússon's hand saying: F. er Gulaþings Lgbok eda Borgarþings Lgbok (þvi þat stendr so  vixl ï | bokini) Bokin er a membrana i 4to. ei illa skrifud. vantar miked | framan vid. hana hefi eg feinged | af Jone Þorsteinssyni.

The manuscript was written in Norway. Jón Sigurðsson ( Dipl. Isl. I p. xxii, 648 ) and Storm ( NgL IV p. 557 ) have both dated the original part of the manuscript (fols 1r-46r) to c. 1350. Kålund's dating: The fourteenth century ( Katalog I p. 381 ). The text on fol. 46v has been dated to c. 1450 by Storm (ibid.) and to the fifteenth century by Kålund (ibid.).

On the AM-slip Árni Magnússon states that he got the manuscript from a Jón Þorsteinsson.

• Digital photographs, CD no 11, from May 10, 2005 (of the old binding (a sea chart)).