Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur

Manuscripts:

AM 147 4to

AM 147 4to (1400-1610, Iceland)
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Reykjavík
1. (1r-89r) JónsbókIcelandicNote: On some pages there are gaps that cut into the text. 2. (89r-111v) RéttarbæturIcelandicNote: Text written in red has almost entirely disappeared (see more details in the description of condition).3. (112r-133v) Kristinréttur Árna biskupsIcelandic

CodexParchmenti, 133, iLater foliation: On the recto side of every other leaf: 1, 3, 5, 7…. 259, 261, 263, 265 og 266 (the final leaf is paginated on both sides); page numbers are randomly marked in the upper or lower right-hand corner (see for example ff. 201-211 or 101r-106r).AverageUnknownHybridaMajor

Info: Scribe of the majority of the material (1r-13v, 21r-85v, 89r-92v and 112r-133v) is unknown; hybrida script.

UnknownHybridaMinor

Info: The scribe of leaves 14r-20v and 92v-110v is unknown; hybrida.

UnknownUnknownMinor

Info: The scribe of leaves 86r-88v is unknown; chancery.

Moderate

Miniature (bas-de-page):
- Various figures related to the saga in the lower margin, for example on fols. 57v-58r and 70v-75r.
Initial (inhabited):
- Anthropomorphic or zoomorphic initials at the beginning of each section; the colour of the letters is predominantly green, and the drawings inside the letters are in light green with shades of red (see for example on fols. 8r, 81v and 89r).
Initial (decorated):
- (6v-7r) Initials with "unfigurative" ornamentation in various colours at the beginning of chapters, see for example fols. 6v-7r.
Secondary (rubric):
- Red rubrics.

Medium

(14r-20v) Leaves 14r-20v have been inserted ca. 1600 (see Kålund's Katalog I, p. 431).
(86r-88v) Fols. 86-88 are insertion leaves from the 17th century (see Katalog I, p. 431).
(93r-111v) Fols. 93r-111v are written ca. 1600 on a palimpsest (see Katalog I, p. 431).

Plain (later)

Conservation binding (Dimensions: 167mm x 151mm x 75mm).

The older binding in the box (Dimensions: 178mm x 140mm x 70mm).

Paper with a marbelled pattern covers the boards, leather on the corners and spine. Blue shelfmark number on the spine.

1400-1610Iceland

Árni Magnússon: OwnerBjarni Sigurðsson: OwnerÁrni Magnússon received the manuscript from Bjarni Sigurðssoni á Heynesi in the year 1709 (see the inserted slips).

Last update: 2011-05-07T19:17:19.995+02:00

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