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AM 666 b 4to

Strengleikar ; Norway, 1260-1280

Note

The manuscript consists of four fragments discovered by Árni Magnússon in the lining of a bishop's mitre at Skálholt in Iceland in 1703. It once belonged to the codex now catalogued as De la Gardie 4-7 in Uppsala University Library.

1 (1ra-4rb:20)

Tveggia elskanda strengleikr

Filiation

A copy of AM 666 b 4to from the late eighteenth century is preserved as NKS 1832 4to in The Royal Library in Copenhagen.

Incipit

„kvað |na i heiminum “

Explicit

„at þessi strengleícr er fegrstr allra ok hann | heitir strengleicrenn tveggia elskannde.“

Bibliography

Keyser and Unger, Strengleikar 1850 p. 84-89

Cook and Tveitane, Strengleikar 1979 p. 262-276

Final Rubric

ok lykr | her þesarre sogv

2 (4rb:20-vb)

Grelent

Rubric

„GRelentz saga“

Filiation

A copy of AM 666 b 4to from the late eighteenth century is preserved as NKS 1832 4to in The Royal Library in Copenhagen.

Incipit

„Nv vil ec segía yðr einn atburð. um | mann þann er Grelent var kallaðr“

Explicit

„þat er hann mætti veðsetía | nema mottvll einn er litils var verðr. ok sveinn“

Bibliography

Keyser and Unger, Streingleikar 1850 p. 89-91

Cook and Tveitane, Strengleikar, 1979 p. 280-286

Text Class

Prose romances

Physical Description

Support

Parchment.

No. of leaves

4 fragmentary leaves. The leaves vary in size, and the dimensions indicated here are the maximum measurements: 286 mm x 200 mm.

Layout

Written in double columns. Majuscules in red and blue ink, rubrics in red ink.

Condition

All of the leaves are cut for use in the lining of a bishop's mitre. Of fols 1 and 2 only the remainders of the inner columns are preserved.

Accompanying Material

On an AM-slip belonging to this fragment Árni Magnússon has written: Þetta var innanï | einni biskups hufu, | (mitra) i Skal-|holti 1703. | GRelentz saga er…

History

Origin

The manuscript was written in Norway c. 1270 (e.g. Cook & Tveitane 1979 p. x ). Kålund's dating: The thirteenth century ( Katalog II p. 77 ).

Acquisition

Cf. the AM-slip: Þetta var innanï | einni biskups hufu, | (mitra) i Skal-|holti 1703.

Additional

Record History

Catalogued May 24, 2000 by EW-J.

Custodial History

Exhibited at the The Royal Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek), Copenhagen, from 8 November 1963 to 6 January 1964.

Exhibited at Nordiska Museet, Stockholm from 12 September to 22 November 1972.

Exhibited at Malmöhus museum from 24 April to 11 May 1973.

Exhibited at The Royal Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek), Copenhagen, for the exhibition Trusler og tyvekoster from 11 May to 30 December 2006.

Lent to The National Archival Services of Norway (Riksarkivet), Oslo for the use of Finn Hødnebø from 15 January 1968 to 17 January 1970.

Lent to the University of Bergen Library, (Bergen Universitetsbibliotek) for the use of Mattias Tveitane from 28 October 1977 to 11 may 1978.

In March 1963 the MS was put in 2 plastic pockets, put on meeting guards and bound in a blue acid-free cardboard cover.

Rebound November 10, 1998 and then put in pockets of polyester and bound in a cardboard cover.

Surrogates

Plate, plade45, s.d.
Plate, plade8, s.d. (supplementary photographs).
Plate, plade111, s.d. (supplementary photographs of the MS as a bishop's mitre).
Pocket lomme 37 s.d. (black and white photographs of the bishop's mitre).
Black and white prints from November 1961.
Colour prints from March 1992 (1r-4v).