Skráningarfærsla handrits

Parchment.

Foliated in red ink in the top outer corners. Traces of other foliations.

Written in two columns with 40 lines (fols 1ra-72va), 37 to 40 lines (fols 72va-73vb) and 44 to 50 lines (fols 74ra-76vb) per column.

The manuscript ends defective and has various lacunae. Of fol. 71 only a thin slip at the spine is left.

Fols 1ra-72ra:2 are written in a hand from the end of the fourteenth century.

Fols 72ra-73vb are written in a hand from c. 1500.

Fols 74ra-76vb are written in a hand from the sixteenth century.

The initials occur in varying colours. Rubrics in red.

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.

The manuscript was written in Iceland and dates from the end of the fourteenth century and c. 1500.

• The main part of the manuscript, fols 1ra-72ra, containing Ólafs saga Tryggvasonar dates from the end of the fourteenth century but there are younger additions.
• Fols 72ra-73vb (Halldórs þáttr Snorrasonar) are from c. 1500.
• Fols 74ra-76vb (Excerpt from Ólafs saga Tryggvasonar, Nornagests þáttr and Helga þáttr Þórissonar) are from the sixteenth century and were intended as a supplement.

In Árni Magnússon's time, the beginning of the saga was written on some leaves of paper by Jón Ólafsson of Lambavatn (Rauðasandur) and added to the manuscript. These were later removed and are now catalogued as AM 325 IX 1 b 4to.

According to AM 435 a 4to, fol. 37v, Árni Guðmundsson of Bíldudalur gave the manuscript to Arngrímur Þorkelsson.

Árni Magnússon gives two different accounts of how he got hold of the manuscript. On fol. 71r he writes that he got it from Magnús Arason in 1703 (fra Magnuse Arasyne. 1703).

In AM 435 a 4to, fol. 37v, however, he says that he got the codex from Arngrímur Þorkelsson: Olafs Saga Tryggvasonar, vantar i hier og hvar α α þar liggr i Defectunum pappir med hendi Sr. Jons Olafs sonar  Lambavatne [now AM. 325 IX 1 b 4to]. | Nornagests þattr. og | af Þorsteine og Helga. Folio Eg trui þesse bok kiæme af Vestfiỏdum | annad hvert til Amtmanns Müllers eda mïn. ad visu hefr þesse bok vered i hỏndum | Magnusar Jons sonar i Vigr. þvi hans hỏnd | stendr  Spatiunne i einum stad | non est ita | Eg hefi | feingid bok-|ina af Arngrimi | Þorkels syne | enn hann | fra Arna | Gudmundz syne | i Billdu dal.

• 70 mm, 70mm 101, s.d.
• 70 mm 70mm 105, s.d.
• Plate plade 111, s.d. (supplementary photograph of fol. 54r).
• Black and white prints, s.d.