Manuscript Detail

There is pagination in dark ink. Later foliation in pencil is found every tenth leaf.

• I: fol. 1-48 (1, 2+47, 3+46, 4+45, 5+44, 6+43, 7+42, 8+41, 9+40, 10+39, 11+38, 12+37, 13+36, 14+35, 15+34, 16+33, 17+32, 18+31, 19+30, 20+29, 21+28, 22+27, 23+26, 24+25, 48)

The manuscript is written in a single column with between 56 and 64 lines per page.

Written lines correspond to poetic lines.

The paper is browned and crumbling at the edges. Some leaves have fallen apart at the spine, e.g. ff. 1 and 48 which had originally been one bifolium.

All of the ballads were likely written by Zacharias Michelsen.

The table of contents was written by Jens Davidsen.

Occasional marginal additions consisting of numbers are found written in pencil.

There is a piece of archival paper wrapped around the binding. On it is written (in pencil): Acc. 4b folio pag. 1-94 Indeholder 9 kvad.

The manuscript was most likely written by the local schoolteacher Zacharias Michelsen on the island of Fugloy in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Belonged to V. U. Hammershaimb likely after 1855.

Came into the collection in 1909 with Hammershaimb's materials.

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