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(63r−88v; defective). the manuscript was acquired by Árni Magnússon
(1663−1730), who in his catalogue of manuscripts (AM 435 a−b) provides
a list of its contents with the information that “Bokin hefur fyrrum verid
eign skalholltskirkiu, þo alldri stadid i neinu registre þar.”11 On the basis
of her identification of the Hallfríður mentioned in a scribal note on fol.
55v (“les betur enn skrifat er kiærí fadir ok seg halfridi goda notth”) with
Hallfríður, próventukona at Hagi and daughter of Þórður sigurðarson,
who in 1473 sold half of Hagi to gísli filippusson (d. 1504), Jonna Louis-
Jensen argues that the manuscript has its provenance in the western part
of Iceland.12 the codex is now housed in the Arnamagnaean Collection in
Copenhagen.
the treatise on the seven deadly sins is found on fols. 10v21–20v27,
that is in Parva pars oculi dextri sacerdotis, which on fol. 55r18–19 is named
as the source of fols. 1r–55r. It is based on the theological manual Oculus
sacerdotis compiled by the English writer William Pagula in the early
fourteenth century. the manual appears to have been popular toward the
end of the Middle Ages; ole Widding draws attention to the fact that it
is mentioned in a 1461 list of books from the monastery of Möðruvellir
and in 1529 as being among the books at Hólar.13 Ian McDougall points
out, however, that the Compendium theologicae veritatis also served as a
source of the Icelandic Parva pars oculi dextri sacerdotis.14 the sections of
the Icelandic treatise on the seven deadly sins that appear to be derived
from this work are 106a44–106b5 (= AM 672 4to, 11r17–22; AM 624 4to:
118.6–9), 107b13–18 (= AM 672 4to: 12v1–10; AM 624 4to: 121.6–12),
113a30–41 (= AM 672 4to: 18r23–18v7; AM 624 4to: 134.8–17), possibly
11 Arne Magnussons i AM. 435 a–b, 4to indeholdte håndskriftfortegnelser med to tillæg, ed. kristian
Kålund (Copenhagen: Jørgensen & Co., 1909), 17. A similar list of contents written by Árni
Magnússon is found on a note accompanying the codex.
12 Louis-Jensen, “Seg Hallfríði góða nótt,” 150.
13 DI, 5:288 and 9:298. ole Widding, “AM 672, 4o – en skyggetilværelse,” Opuscula 1
(1960):345. Widding points out that parts of the same treatise are found in AM 624 4to,
AM 684 4to, and AM 688a 4to. for a discussion of the Oculus sacerdotis, see, for example,
L. E. Boyle, “A Study of the Works Attributed to William of Pagula with Special reference
to the Oculus Sacerdotis and Summa Summarum,” 2 vols. (D.Phil. dissertation: oxford
university, 1956).
14 Ian McDougall, “Latin Sources of the old Icelandic Speculum Penitentis,” Opuscula
10 (1996):145–46. the Compendium theologicae veritatis is found in B. Alberti Magni,
Ratisbonensis episcopi, ordinis prædicatorum Opera Omnia, ed. Augustus Borgnet, vol. 34
(Paris: apud Ludovicum Vives, 1895).
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