Manuscript Detail

Rask 74

Jónsbók ; Iceland, 1585-1599

Contents

1 (1r-89v)
Jónsbók
Language of Text
Icelandic
Text Class
Laws
1.1 (1-70r)
Jónsbók
Incipit

„handsalz slijte “

Note

Beginning in Landsleigubǫlkr, chapter 1

1.2 (70v-80r)
Table of Contents
Text Class
Tables of contents / indexes
1.3 (80r-89v)
Legal Amendments
Explicit

„epter almennilegum verdauꝛum | j godꝛi“

Note

Ends defectively in an alþingissamþykkt of 1585 Um tíundargjald etc.

Text Class
Laws

Physical Description

Support

Paper.

No. of leaves
89. 151 mm x 93 mm.
Layout

Coloured initials, mostly red or green; large flourished chapter initials and rubrics in red.

Condition
After fol. 88, ending with the renewed sáttmáli of 1302, a lacuna is found.
Binding

Bound in a modern half-binding. An envelope and a letter of 1743 from Brandur Bjarnason to the priest Jón Þórðarson of Einholt (in an Icelandic and Low German mixed language) are used as flyleaves.

History

Origin
Iceland, s. XVI ex.

Bibliography

Title: Katalog over Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling
Editor: Kålund, Kristian
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