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Paper.

Foliated in bottom margins.

Written in one column throughout. 31 to 37 lines (fols 1-21) and 47 to 49 lines (fols 24-25) per page.

Torfi Jónsson from Gaulverjabær wrote fols 1-21.

Sveinn Jónsson from Barð wrote fols 24-25.

AM-slip a) in the beginning of the manuscript reads: Versionem Latinam Ragnars-| Sgu, sem eg hefi med hende | Sr Torfa Jonssonar i Gaulver-|ibæ, corrigerada af Mag. | Bryniolfi. seger Sr Jon Torfa-|son fdur sinn giort i Skal-|hollte, þ hann var ut Skola-|vetrenum adr enn hann (Torfe) | siglde um sumared epter, | idqve Jubente Bryniolfo. | Eg feck þesse bld i Gaul-|veriabæ 1704. | Sr Torfe deponerade in Decem-|bri 1642. | Ergo er versionem gird um | veturenn 1641-42. a audru | are Mag. Bryniolfs.

AM-slip b) between fols 23 and 24 reads: Mun ei þetta kunna | ad vera Sr Jsleifs | uppkast, Munde hann | ei vertera Ragnars-| Sgu, α þä hann var hiä | Jone Eggertssyne. | α] Non: Ecki finn eg | þad neinstadar, og ei | hefur hann sialfur skrif-|ad mier þad til, enn hann | þö nefnt adrar sgur | er hann snere. þetta er og, ad vïsu, | ecki hnd Sr Js-|leifs. | þad er hnd Sr Sveins |  Barde.

Written in Iceland in the period 1641-1687. According to AM-slip a), the first translation of Völsunga saga was made in the winter of 1641-42 by Torfi Jónsson, subsequently priest of Gaulvejarbær, and commissioned by bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson. The second translation must have been made before 1687.

According to AM-slip a), Árni Magnússon got the manuscript in 1704.

Catalogued 27. maj 2008 by Silvia Hufnagel.