Manuscripts:
AM 589 f 4to
AM 589 f 4to (1450-1499, Iceland)
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Reykjavík
1. (1r:1-13r:12) Sturlaugs saga starfsama (defective)Icelandic Begins: en lid þeirra legzt í hernad med skip þeirraog lykir her þessi sauguNote: Defective; lacks beginning.2. (13r:13-36v:13) Göngu-Hrólfs saga (defective)IcelandicGaungu hrolfs SagaMargar fra sagnir hafa menn saman sett Ends: huat er huer vann edr giordi frægd edr vizkuNote: Defective. Text ends mid-page; probably copied from a defective source. Rubric appears to have been added in a later hand.
Last update: 2013-08-23Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Reykjavík
1. (1r:1-13r:12) Sturlaugs saga starfsama (defective)Icelandic Begins: en lid þeirra legzt í hernad med skip þeirraog lykir her þessi sauguNote: Defective; lacks beginning.2. (13r:13-36v:13) Göngu-Hrólfs saga (defective)IcelandicGaungu hrolfs SagaMargar fra sagnir hafa menn saman sett Ends: huat er huer vann edr giordi frægd edr vizkuNote: Defective. Text ends mid-page; probably copied from a defective source. Rubric appears to have been added in a later hand.
CodexParchment36192-200mm x 158-165mmFoliated: Foliated in the upper margin of recto leaves.Poor #average: One leaf lacking after fol. 17, one leaf lacking after fol. 22,
and one leaf lacking after fol. 31.
Lacunae on fols. 1, 16, 22-24,
27-30 and 34-36.
152-165mm x 140-145mmUnknownTextualisSole
None
Medium
- Later marginal annotations, some of which are religious citations and prayers, on fols. 4r, 6v, 7v, 9r-v, 10v, 11v, 12v, 18v, 19r-v, 20v, 24v, 25r, 28r-v, 31v, 32v, 34v, and 36r-v.
- Autograph at the foot of fol. 18r reads: "magnus byarnnarson".
- Autograph at the foot of fol. 21r reads: "Helge uigfws son".
- Autograph on fol. 28v (15th c. according to Kålund 1889 I: 756) reads: "þeim godvm monnum sem þetta bref sía edur heyra sændar æc jon kettilson ydur teittur palsonok þackar æc þier fyrer þav env godv knjfa kiorjnn".
Plain (later)
Current binding from 1977. Dimensions:
209mm x
190mm x
33mm. Half-calf linen over paper boards.
Previous binding from ca. 1772-1780. Plain pasteboard with blue shelfmark on the spine. Offset from
printed text on pastedowns.
1450-1499Iceland
Árni Magnússon: OwnerBjörn Þorleifsson: OwnerPreviously part of a larger codex containing AM 589 a-f 4to acquired by Árni
Magnússon from Björn Þorleifsson
(cf. AM 435 a 4to, fol. 101v [pp. 34-35 in the printed ed.],
and the inserted slip in AM 589 a 4to).
