Manuscripts:
AM 54 fol.
AM 54 fol. (1385-1599, Iceland)
Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Copenhagen
1. (1ra:1-72ra:2) Ólafs saga TryggvasonarIcelandicBjarni Einarsson uses fols. 31ra-va, 48vb-49ra, 50ra-b, 54rb-55ra and 69ra-70rb of this manuscript in his edition of Hallfreðar saga as Ed. 54.2. (72ra:3-73vb:39) Halldórs þáttur SnorrasonarIcelandicNote: Fragment3. (74ra:1-74va:21) Ólafs saga TryggvasonarIcelandicNote: Fragment4. (74va:22-76ra:48) Norna-Gests þátturIcelandicÞad var a einne nott ad olafr konungr Tryggva son vakti a bæn j sæng sinniog þotti aullum merkilegt hans andlat þotti kongi mark at sogum hans og þotti sannaz um lifdaga hans sem henni sagdi5. (76ra:49-76vb:13) Helga þáttur ÞórissonarIcelandicÞordur het madr er bio J norege a bæ þeim er ad raudabergi hetþa hyrfi og eirum hornin og hefr eingin sied hann sidaan og lykur suo þessare sogu
Last update: 2013-02-04Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Copenhagen
1. (1ra:1-72ra:2) Ólafs saga TryggvasonarIcelandicBjarni Einarsson uses fols. 31ra-va, 48vb-49ra, 50ra-b, 54rb-55ra and 69ra-70rb of this manuscript in his edition of Hallfreðar saga as Ed. 54.2. (72ra:3-73vb:39) Halldórs þáttur SnorrasonarIcelandicNote: Fragment3. (74ra:1-74va:21) Ólafs saga TryggvasonarIcelandicNote: Fragment4. (74va:22-76ra:48) Norna-Gests þátturIcelandicÞad var a einne nott ad olafr konungr Tryggva son vakti a bæn j sæng sinniog þotti aullum merkilegt hans andlat þotti kongi mark at sogum hans og þotti sannaz um lifdaga hans sem henni sagdi5. (76ra:49-76vb:13) Helga þáttur ÞórissonarIcelandicÞordur het madr er bio J norege a bæ þeim er ad raudabergi hetþa hyrfi og eirum hornin og hefr eingin sied hann sidaan og lykur suo þessare sogu
CodexParchmenti, 76, i315mm x 232mmLater foliation: Foliated in red ink in the top outer corners by Kålund. Traces of other foliations.Average: The manuscript ends defective and has various lacunæ. Of fol. 71 only a thin slip at the spine is
left.230mm x 161mmNoUnknownTextualisMajor
Info: Fols. 1ra-72ra:2 are written in a hand from the end of the
fourteenth century.
UnknownTextualisMinorInfo: Fols. 72ra-73vb are written in a hand from c. 1500.Note: Same hand
as in AM 325 VI 4to, fol. 17ra:13-36v.
UnknownTextualisMinorInfo: Fols. 74ra-76vb are written in a hand from the sixteenth
century.
High
- Initial: The initials occur in varying colours with ornate decoration. Rubrics in red.
Low
- Árni Magnússon has marked some of the lacunae in the bottom margin of the previous page. A number of seventeenth-century notes in the lower margins of the codex provide information of the manuscript's extent at the time (108 leaves). Also written here and there in the margins are the names of various owners. On the front flyleaf, a little AM-slip is glued to the paper. Notes on the rebinding are given on the verso side of the front flyleaf: "Indbundet i jan. 1935. Tidligere i tarveligt bind fra 1880erne."
Moderately decorated (later)
Modern binding with brown leather on spine and corners. Gilded imprints on the spine: "AM 54 fol."
and "69". According to note on the front flyleaf, the manuscript was rebound in 1935, replacing a
binding from the 1880s.
1385-1599IcelandNote: The main part of the manuscript (1ra-72ra) was written in the second half or end of the 14th century. Fols. 72ra-73vb, items 2-3, were written ca. 1500, and fols. 74ra-76vb, items 4-5, were written in the 15th century.
Árni Guðmundsson: OwnerÁrni Þorleifsson: OwnerÁrni Magnússon: OwnerAccording to AM 435a 4to, fol. 37v, Árni Guðmundsson of Bíldudalur gave the manuscript to
Arngrímur Þorkelsson, who might have given it to
Árni Magnússon.
