Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur

Manuscripts:

AM 335 4to

AM 335 4to (1390-1410, Iceland)
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Reykjavík
1. (1v-11r) Sturlaugs saga starfsamaIcelandicNote: Árni Magnússon has written the beginning on an attached note.Note: First words crossed out by Árni and writes above the line "menn þeir".Note: Fols. 1-2 and 7 and 8 are mostly illegible; some other folios may be hard to read (see for example fol. 3). 2. (11r-14v) Um SamsonIcelandicNote: Begins right after Sturlaugs saga and is indicated with a title added by a later hand.3. (15r-16v) Af þremur kumpánumIcelandic4. (16v-18v) Af þremur þjófum í DanmörkIcelandic5. (18v-18v) Af sjö listum og sjö dyggðum og sjö leikumIcelandicNote: Hugo Gering, Islendzk æventyri, Halle 1882, pp. 172 (LVII.). 6. (18v-18v) Um heilræði er einn arabískur maður kenndi syni sínumIcelandicNote: Hugo Gering, Islendzk æventyri, Halle 1882, bls. 172 (LVIII.).7. (18v-18v) Frá skógfaranda manni og einum ormiIcelandicNote: Hugo Gering, Islendzk æventyri, Halle 1882, p. 173 (LIX.). 8. (18v-18v) Af versificatori er gjörðist portariIcelandicNote: Hugo Gering, Islendzk æventyri, Halle 1882, pp. 173-74 (LX.). 9. (19r-31r) Gibbons sagaIcelandic10. (31r-31r) Hverju áköllun heilagrar Dórótheu getur áorkaðIcelandicNote: Kålund considers this text to have been written around 1500 (see Katalog I, p. 575). 11. (31v-34v) Drauma-Jóns sagaIcelandic12. (34v-35v) Af rómverska dáranumIcelandicNote: The end of the manuscript seems to be missing since a new text begins at the bottom of fol. 35v.

CodexParchment35208mm x 153mmLater foliationPoor160-170mm x 115-125mmUnknownCursivaMinor

Low

Initial: Most decorations and rubrics in red have faded out either partially or entirely.
Secondary (rubric)

Low

Most of the titles for the main items in the manuscript have been added later.
Scribblings in margins, see for example fols. 14v-15r and 29v-30v.

Plain (later)

Binding (Dimensions: 233mm x 176mm x 43mm) is from between the 10th-28th February 1967.

An old binding made of seal skin is kept with the manuscript. Rebound in .

1390-1410Iceland

Last update: 2015-02-03

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