Manuscript Detail

Parchment.

The manuscript is written in long lines with the number of lines per page varying from 31-35 lines; generally, there are 34 lines per line. Rubrics in red, whereas majuscules occur in varying colours.

The codex have various defects. Fol. 1 is torn and a great part of the bottom is torn away; the lost text is added by Árni Magnússon on a slip pasted between ff. 1 and 2. Furthermore the first 1 1/2 of the first leaf is copied and pasted to f. 1r. A part of f. 23 has likewise been torn away. There are the following lacunae:

• after f. 6: 1 leaf
• after f. 36: 1 leaf
• after f. 38: 1 leaf
• after f. 46: 8-9 leaves
• after f. 50: 1 leaf
• after f. 53: 9 or 10
• after f. 54: c. 5 leaves
• after f. 55: c. 20
• after f. 64: 1 leaf

The manuscript is mainly written in one hand throughout, with the exception of two hands that has written the two last lines of f. 44r, and the seven last lines of f. 48v, respectively. A fourth hand has provided the manuscript with headings.

Names of owners from the seventeenth century are added in the margin.

There are two slips written in Árni Magnússon's hand.

• The first, a paper-slip reads: Þessa Barlaams Sỏgu hefe eg feinged ur Skagafirde ä Islande. 3 blỏd ur henne hefe eg sidan feinged fra einum i Skagafirde. voro Convulut utan um bök og bref. 2. blỏsidan post annum 1702. nærre Skalhollte. Sagde sä er mier feck, ad þau være nordan ad komen. Mier þyker hỏnden ä þessari bok, lik hendi Magnuss Þorkellssonar, Gudbiartzsonar.
• The second, a thin slip of parchment has: þetta er hit fyrsta kverit framanaf |Barlaams Sỏgu.

The manuscript is written in Iceland in the second half of the fourteenth century ( Seip 1954 130, 132 ) and Rindal 1981 ).

In his catalogue of Icelandic parchment manuscripts, now catalogued as AM 435 a 4to, Árni Magnússon writes that the codex once belonged to Eggert Jónsson of Akrar: Er komin til min ur Skagafirde. Bökina hefur fyrr ätta Eggert Jonsson ä ỏkrum. Er in folio minori.

Árni Magnússon got the most part of the codex from Skagafjörður. Later he got three leaves having served as envelopes and binding for books, also from Skagafjörður. After 1702 he acquired two other leaves from Skállholt.

• 70 mm, 70mm 81, s.d.
• Microfilm (master), Neg. 984, from December 04, 1996.
• Microfilm (archive), Pos. 882, , from December 04, 1996
• Plate, plade 82, s.d. (prior to restoration).
• 70 mm, 70mm 226, s.d. (supplementary photographs).
• Diapositives from April 1984.
• Black and white prints, s.d.
• Black and white prints from December 1996 (supplementary photographs).