AM 764 4to
Reynistaðarbók ; Iceland, 1376-1386
Note
AM 764 4to is written by at least ten different hands and is therefore presumed produced in a scriptorium, most possibly Reynistaður in Skagafjörður, Northern Iceland.
The manuscript cn be divided into two parts.
Contents
Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Universal history in fourteenth-century Iceland 243-305
Rafn, Antiquités russes II 443-445
Simek, Altnordische Kosmographie436-438Text 10: Mittlere Weltbeschreibung
Simek, Altnordische Kosmographie445-446fols 2r-v; "Text 1: Kleine Kosmologie nach Honorius Augustodunensis". According to Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir 2000b, p. 59 the transscription is unreliable.
Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, The Book of Judith. A medieval Icelandic translation 95-121
Þorbjörg Helgadóttir, Rómverja saga228-235, 350-351, 383-387, 389-390
Widding & Bekker-Nielsen, Elisabeth of Schönau's visions in an Old Icelandic manuscript, AM 764, 4to94-96
Wolf, An excerpt on saint Gregory the great in AM 764 4to 288-289
Stefán Karlsson, Inventio Crucis, cap. 1 og Veraldar saga 122, 126
The second part of the manuscript contains excerpts of e.g. legends, miracles and annals. Parts of Maríu jartegnir and Vitæ patrum are interspersed between the other texts. Tveitane (Den lærde stil, 20-21, 23-24.) printed those parts of Vitæ patrum written on fols 26r and 38r-v. The following items are printed or mentioned in ONP and Wolf 2013.
„her byriaz | saga heilags | malci“
Unger, Heilagra Manna Søgur 437-446Udg. Cd
Widding & Bekker-Nielsen, A debate of the body and the soul in Old Norse literature 280-289
Gering, Íslendzk æventýri 24-26 Ed. H
Louis-Jensen, Nogle ævintýriVar.app. 764
Turville-Petre, An Icelandic version of the Somniale Danielis 19-36
Wolf, A fragmentary excerpt on Saint Walburga in AM 764 4to 211-214fols 34r-v, Valbjargar jartegnir
van Deusen, A Miracle of St. Sunniva in AM 764 4to242-243
Möbius, Annalecta norræna 208
Turville-Petre, Legends of England in Icelandic Manuscripts 107
Gering, Íslendzk æventýrivap.app. H
„Sva er sagt at arnulfus het“
„er heiter j kirkiu bæi“
Ólafur Halldórsson, Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta III 61-71bl. 39r-40r
Þorsteinn Helgason & al., Jómsvíkíngasaga ok Knýtlingasaga með tilheyrandi þáttum (Fornmanna sögur 11) 412-416bl. 40r-v
Simek, Altnordische Kosmographie 445-446Text 11: Mischtext der Weltbeschreibungen. According to Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir the transscription is unreliable.
Physical Description
Parchment.
Written in one column throughout, mainly with 41 lines per page.
Initials in red or greenish blue ink; rubrics in red ink.
The bottom half of fol. 37r and the top half of fol. 37v are blank.
Several leaves have tears and small holes; a part of the text on fol. 4 is erased. Lacunae occur after fols 33, 34, 35, 37 and 40
A fragment was cut out after fol. 12.
Written by a variety of hands.
A comprehensive list of contents for the first part of the manuscript in Jón Sigurðsson's hand is enclosed.
Six leaves of paper in folio format, a copy of the annal on fols 41-43 written in Jón Marteinsson's hand, are also enclosed.
History
Bibliography
Editor: Stefán Karlsson
Scope: VII
Title: Legends of England in Icelandic Manuscripts, The Anglo-Saxons. Studies presented to Bruce Dickens
Title: An Icelandic version of the Somniale Danielis, Nordica et Anglica. Studies in Honor of Stefán Einarsson
Editor: Unger, C. R.
Scope: I-II
Title: , Elisabeth of Schönau's visions in an Old Icelandic manuscript, AM 764, 4to
Scope: p. 93-
Title: Mediaeval studies, A debate of the body and the soul in Old Norse literature
Scope: p. 271-289
Title: , Et brudstykke af en legende i et islandsk haandskrift. Hvem er W i AM 764 4to
Scope: p. 102-105
Title: An excerpt on saint Gregory the great in AM 764 4to, Sagnaheimur. Studies in honour of Hermann Pálsson
Scope: p. 287-294
Title: Journal of English and Germanic Philology, A Miracle of St. Sunniva in AM 764 4to
Scope: 117
Title: Opbgyggelige historier fra Reynirstaður: Bibelmateriale i AM 764 4to.
Title: Weltbild mit Löwe. Die Imago mundi von Honorius Augustodunensis in der Altwestnordischen Textüberlieferung, Nyt og gammelt fra Peter Springborg
Editor: Driscoll, Matthew, Lassen, Annette
Scope: 139-193
Title: , En marginal i Codex Regius af Den ældre Edda
Scope: p. 80-82
Title: The Book of Judith. A medieval Icelandic translation, Gripla
Scope: 11
Title: Universal history in fourteenth-century Iceland. Studies in AM 764 4to
Title: Writing Universal History in Ultima Thule: The Case of AM 764 4to, Mediaeval Scandinavia
Scope: p. 185-194
Title: The world and its ages: The organisation of an ‘encyclopaedic’ narrative in MS AM 764 4to, The Northern World, Sagas, Saints and Settlements
Editor: Bibire, Paul, Williams, Gareth
Scope: 11
Title: Den lærde stil: Oversættelsesprosa i den norrøne versionen af Vitæ Patrum, Årbok for Universitetet i Bergen: Humanistisk serie
Title: Universal history in the fourteenth-century Iceland: Studies in AM 764 4to
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