Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur

Manuscripts:

JS 166 fol.

JS 166 fol. (1679, Iceland)
Landsbókasafn Íslands, Reykjavík
Later addition: Søgu-Safn med hendi. Þórdar Jónssonar á Strandselium.1. (1r-120r) Trójumanna sagaIcelandic1.1. (120v-120v) KvæðiIcelandicNote: Final poem for Trójumanna saga2. (121r-136r) Vilmundar saga viðutanIcelandic3. (136v-181r) Rémundar saga keisarasonarIcelandic3.1. (181r-181r) VísaIcelandicNote: Fols. 148 and 149 have been reversed4. (181v-190r) Nitida sagaIcelandic5. (190v-202r) Hálfdanar saga EysteinssonarIcelandicNote: Finished on the 12th february anno 1679 ()6. (202v-219r) Hálfdanar saga BrönufóstraIcelandic7. (219v-224v) Orms þáttur StórólfssonarIcelandic7.1. (224v-224v) VísaIcelandicNote: Text at the end is written in the hand of Páll Pálsson the student who completed the repaired strips with the original text.

CodexPaperii, 224, iNote: Flyleaves from the time of binding.272mm x 90mmLater foliationPoor: Old repairs and strips glued over text; obscured text added over strips.245-255mm x 65mmYesÞórður JónsonUnknownSole

Info: Originally in one hand; fols. 1 and 8 added by another hand

Moderate

Initial: Ornamental letters throughout.
Secondary: Decorations on folio 120r

Medium

Folios 1 and 8 are insertions written by another hand.
Front flyleaf ( ffl1r) is a title page in the hand of Páll Pálsson the student.
Front flyleaf ( ffl2v) contains a table of contents, also written by Páll Pálsson the student.
Páll Pálsson the student added the missing text onto repair strips, except for fol. ( 152r, where the addition is in a different hand (also differs from hand on fols. 1 and 8).
Occasional marginalia.

Plain (later)

Binding covered in dark fabric. Two stickers on the spine, one green, one yellow. Red book block.

1679Iceland

Jón Sigurðsson: Owner

Last update: 2016-05-23

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