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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON STJÓRN 9
Gatherings 3—8 (fols. 12–59). These are complete.
Gathering 9 (fols. 60–65). The outermost bifolium is lost, i.e. one leaf
before fol 60 (Unger 1862:245–248) and one after fol 65 (this loss,
along with that of the following first leaf of the next gathering,
corresponds to Unger 1862:272–278).
Gathering 10 (fols. 66–70). The outermost bifolium is lost, i.e. one leaf
before fol 66 and one after fol 70. Another leaf, originally conjoint
with fol 68, now a singleton, was lost after fol 67 (Unger 1862:285–
289). The lower half of the second column on fol 70v is blank, and
there is no writing on fol 71v either, so it is reasonable to think that the
lost leaf between them was also left empty. The scribe or his supervisor
must have thought it was possible to obtain the middle section of
Stjórn for inclusion at this point, though any efforts they made to do so
were evidently fruitless; see p. 24 below.
Gathering 11 (fols. 71–78). This remains complete.
Gathering 12 (fols. 79–84). The outermost bifolium (fols. 79 + 84) is
intact along with remnants of three of the intervening leaves (fols.
80–83). Three are lost, two after fol 80 (Unger 1862:391–399) and one
after fols. 81–82 (Unger 1862:402–405). Fols. 80 and 83 were originally
conjoint, while the fragments numbered fols. 81–82 both come from
the second leaf of the innermost pair.
Gatherings 13–14 (fols. 85–100). These are complete.
Gathering 15 (fols. 101–106). The innermost bifolium is lost, i.e. two
leaves after fol 103 (Unger 1862:493–502).
Gatherings 16–17 (fols. 107–122). These are complete.
Gatherings 18 (fols. 123–128). Two originally conjoint leaves are lost,
one after fol 123, the other after fol 127 (Unger 1862:597–602. 622–
626).
Gathering 19 (fol 129). This single leaf was removed from the codex
before it was bound. Three preceding leaves are missing (Unger
1862:631–644), but it is uncertain how many leaves originally came
after it. Text which would take us up to the end of Stjórn III (Unger
1862:649–654) could have been accommodated on little more than a
single leaf, so it is possible that this last gathering was only of six
folios. It is equally possible however that Stjórn was followed by some