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Islendsk Landslaga Bók Utgefen aff Magnuse Konge [Jónsbók]

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2654

Scope and Contents

Ornate pen-and-ink title page with name of writer: 'Thorleifus Arnaeas Anno 1674 scripsit librum'. Arnasson adds preface in 1686. Main text followed by 'Riettarbaetur', and by an index compiled by Thorstiern Magnusson. I initials and designs in pen-and-ink or colours. Numerous marginal notes. Title page: 'A present from the Rev. Eggert Gudmundson Dean of Borgarfiord in Iceland. Reykholt, June 26 1815. Ebenezer Henderson'. (c.f. E. Henderson, Iceland: Journal of a Residence ..., Edinburgh, 1818, 2, pp. 152-4

Dates

  • Creation: 1674-1686

Conditions Governing Access

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Extent

1 volume(s) (1 volume paper) : paper

Language of Materials

Icelandic

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Once belonged to Eggert Gudmundson and, subsequently, to Ebenezer Henderson. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 29 July 1880.

Related Materials

Note by Henry Bradshaw recording purchase price, formerly loose in the MS., is now placed at Add. 5944 (72).

Bibliography

See critical edition by Olafur Halldórsson (Copenhagen, 1904). For characteristics of the 17th-cent. MSS. See also Halldór Hermansson, Illuminated Manuscripts of the Jónsbók, Ithaca, 1940, p. 18.

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Topical

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

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