Manuscript Detail

Paper.

Irregularly paginated with pencil on the bottom right corners.

On fols 1r-7v catchwords are found.

Fols 8v-19v, 24v-26r and 97r-107rare written in two colums. The rest of the manuscript is written in one column (with the exception of fol. 95r where the last stanza is written in two columns) with 21 to 35 lines per page. On fols 122v-127r there are running titles.

Tears in the margins on fols 1, 73 and 74 were repaired with tape. On fols 115, 116, 120 and 121 the bottom margins were cut away with some loss of text. Fol. 132 is pasted to the blank fol. 131.

Fols128-130 were written by Gunnar Pálsson.

A note concerning the following háttatal is pasted on fol. 88v .

Most probably written in Iceland in the period 1600-1815.

• Fols 1-8 and 29-76 are written in the seventeenth century.
• Fols 9-26 are written c. 1700.
• Fol. 28v is written in the beginning of the nineteenth century.
• Fols 77-87, 122-127 and 132 are written in the eighteenth century.
• Fols 89-96 are written in the beginning of the eighteenth century.
• Fols 97-121 are written in the end of the eighteenth century.
• Fols 128-130 are written in the second half of the eighteenth century.

• Microfilm (master), G. neg. 233, from 1960 (before restoration).
• Microfilm (back-up), TS 238, from October 28, 1999 (back-up of G.neg. 233).
• Microfilm (archive), G. pos. 273, s.d.
• Microfilm (archive), arkiv 1024, from July 11, 2007.