Manuscript Detail

Parchment.

The manuscript is written in long lines. The number of lines per page vary from 43 to 54.

The manuscript is fragmentary and defective. On fol. 41 the writing is so worn that reading is almost impossible. Fol. 3r, especially near the margins, and 35r, are hardly legible due to wear, and the first lines of fol. 2r are partly illegible. The upper corner of fol. 1 is torn out and therefore some text is missing; a hole on fol 9 has also caused a loss of some letters on each side. Tears occur on fols 13, 15, 19, 22, 23, 24 and 38; none of these have caused a loss of text, whereas the tear on fol. 41 has effaced some letters in the middle of the leaf. The margins of fol. 24 are excised.

The first hand wrote fols 1-30 and 35-41. This hand is the most practised and has the most consistent orthography.

A second hand wrote fol. 31-34

A third, unskilled, hand has written the first 6 lines on fol. 19v.

The manuscript abounds with marginal notes. A great part of these are hard to dechipher, but the following can be mentioned:

• 2v iiii Nottom firir G G messo
• 3r a similar note: at paskom til jola fosto dfmcblhg

• A verse concerning King Olav: Olafs dyrd mvn aldre skyrd oll j fiolnes feingi stilis hond med stal ok rond stoltare gvllit h
• Man and wife wishing each other good luck: Gud vere med ydur bonde min ok gefi ydur lif ok lucku and Gvd geymi ydur hvstrv min

• 10v gud minn s
• 23r aue maria gracia plena
• 26v gudz nad og frydur sie
• 26v drottenn gud hialp mier og minne salu æfenlega amen
• 32r gud þann Eingil sinn Gabriel Af himnvm sialfur sende (written in the same hand as the latter
• 32v: heil maria gracia

• On 4 where the snips of the margins are excised, the following is written: Þetta er rælni at klypa
• 10r Stygge þig
• 10v þat barst at a einnu
• 20r Nad og fridur sie og uere (?) med ydur minn gode uin (similar notes occur other places)
• 23r suo at spurt uere
• 24r: god uerk kuna uert
• 30v: the beginning of a doctor's advice Ef blod geinngur upp af manne drek…
• 32v: the beginning of a stanza Gudzson profast gietin være greida sio menn fiske fære marger kaupa miol og klæde mar
• Fol. 38v: þad er mier hrigd og angur stigd

• 12r Þorsteinn Magnus son jlla fer osz. (sixteenth century?)
• 14r gvdz nad sie med ydur mynn gode vin biornn hierleyfsson fenneikt (?). The note seems to be continued on f. 13v: laus sit semper deo (seventeenth century)
• 15v Jon Einar Son hefvr cf. 19v and 34v
• 19r tumas
• 19v Jon Eynar son heffur…
• 27v (sixteenth century?): Hallvr Einarsson
• 28v (seventeenth century): Halla teiks dotter Eigin hand þo styrdar sie syngurnar
• 31r (sixteenth or seventeenth century): Fridur sie med ydur nu og jafnann minn gode vin ketill ketelsson

A note pasted to the front of the manuscript reads: Olafs Saga Helga komin til min fra Jone Bdvars syne. ut puto. imò non dubito. Eg feck eina Olafs Sgu fra honum, og kann þad eingin nnur ad vera enn þesse Another AM-slip concerning f. 37 reads: feinged af Monsr Jone Þorkelssyni fra Niardvik, 1719 i Kaupenhafn, Enn honum var þad sendt fra Islande sama är. hafde vered utanum eitt hans kver þar, og hafde hann svo epter þvi bod girt

Jón Böðvarsson owned the codex except from f. 37 which was used as binding for a little book which Jón Þorkelsson of Njarðvík possessed.

According to the AM-slips Árni Magnússon got the fragmentary codex from Jón Böðvarsson, except from fol. 37 which he got from Jón Þorkelsson in 1719.

• 70 mm, 70mm 37, s.d.
• Diapositives from May 1984 or 1985.
• Black and white prints from July 1965.