Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur

Manuscripts:

AM 556 b 4to

AM 556 b 4to (1475-1499, Iceland)
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Reykjavík
1. (1r-24v) Mágus sagaIcelandicNote: Incomplete.Note: With the corresponding þættir.2. (25r-35v) Jarlmanns saga og HermannsIcelandic3. (35r-46v) Þorsteins saga VíkingssonarIcelandicNote: Incomplete.

CodexParchmenti, 46, i260mm x 214mmLater foliationAverage: Some pages missing, and the text may be damaged in some places.191mm x 140mmUnknownCursivaSole

High

Paratext (secondary): Red rubric on fols. 1r, 35r.
Paratext (secondary): Traces of coloured rubrics throughout.
Initial: Decorated initials in two colours (red and blue) at chapter beginnings, fols. 1r (I), 25r (M), 35r (Þ). Smaller initials (red, green or blue) throughout.
Secondary: Pen-drawn leaves in the bottom margins, for example on fols. 2r, 16r, 30r, 34r, 36r.

High

Rubrics in the margin written by a younger hand, for example on fol. 1r, 21v, 25r, 35r.
Comments in the margins, for example on fol. 2v, 16v, 17r-v, 21v, 22r, 24v, 25r, 29v, 36r, 43v, 45v.
On fol. 27r: "Magnús Jónsson med e." and on fol.. 29v"Gudrunu".
Corrections and comments in the margins by scribe.
Later comments on missing pages on fol. 40v and 44v.

Moderately decorated (later)

Dimensions: 280mm x 246mm x 50mm.

1475-1499Iceland

Árni Magnússon: OwnerÞórður Steindórsson: OwnerGísli Magnússon Vísi-Gísli: OwnerPáll Þórðarson: Magnús Jónsson Digri: Ambiguous: Árni Magnússon got the manuscript from two unknown places. Þórður Steindórsson received AM 556 a-b 4to when it was still in one piece from Gísli Magnússon in Hlíðarendi í Fljótshlíð (see Árni Magnússon's copy of his request to Páll Þórðarson in Eyri í Skutulsfirði and the latter's answer to the letter in 1707 in AM 435 a 4to, bl. 66v-71r). Names in the margins: Magnús Jónsson (27r) and Guðrún (29v).

Last update: 2015-02-04

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