Gripla - 20.12.2004, Page 15

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON STJÓRN 13
None of the marginalia in 227 provides direct evidence of where or with
whom it spent its time. At the head of the pages, though less regularly at the
start of the manuscript, the appropriate title of the biblical book is entered in
what appears to be a sixteenth-century hand; the titles follow the Vulgate in
distinguishing four books of Kings but not two of Samuel and two of Kings
as in later Bibles. Chapter-numbers have also been entered, perhaps in the
same hand, and here and there the beginning or end of a book or chapter is
noted (fols. 6rb, 13vb, 58va, 86vb, 88va, 113vb, 124va and vb). On fol 88va
we find „Jncipit liber Samuel primus“; judged by the „Samuel“ title, this
would seem to be the latest entry made in the codex.
A hand from a rather earlier period (fifteenth century) has written some
brief marginal notes in Latin relating to the text. Chief among them are:
Fol 5va: „dignitas hominis triplex“, with the ordinal numbers „2w“ and
„3W“ lower down in the margin. — Fol 5vb: „v modis assimilatur
dominus homini“. — Fol 6ra and rb, 6vb: „questio“. — Fol 6va:
„Augustinus“. — Fol 7r–v: ordinal numbers are put alongside the seven
ages of the world. — Fol 13va: „…um noe adhuc viuente [erant?] de
filiis suis sem cham [iaphet] xxti quatuormilia et c. [sine?] paruulis et
mulieribus“. — Fol 13v, bottom: „noe erat nongentorum annorum et
l“. — Fols. 33v–35r, 39vb, 40ra, 40vb: „nota“. — Fol 36r, top: „nota
hic de talentis“. — Fol 36rb: „de hosp[itio]“. — Fol 38va: „[no]ta vj
priuilegia primogeniti“. — Fol 41va: „Jeronimus“. — Fol 42rb:
„ysidor[us]“. — Fol 61va: „[no]ta homicidium [Moy]ses interfecit
egyptum“. — Fol 90va: „xxx milia“. — Fol 91va: „[lxx]ta milia
virorum [de] plebe l milia“. — Fol 93va: „[ccc m]ilia israel [xxx]ta
milia iude“. — Fol 94rb: „xxxta mili[a] vi milia“. — Fol 94vb: „xx
milia“.
Annotation in a later hand (sixteenth century) is found as follows:
Fol 4r: „quatuor elementa“. — Fol 31va: „ciclus ad uikt fiordi partur
gyllenis flad. er .vj. Lybisker skillingar“. — Fol 65ra: „primum
signum“. — Fol 66ra: „flad er nv palm sunnudagur hia oss“. — Fol
66rb: „Skirdags kuelld“. — Fol 66vb: „Af frumburdum egiptzkra“. —
Fol 103v, bottom: „capitulum 30 hic non continetur“. — Fol 112rb:
„dolosum homicidium“. — Fol 117vb: „nemo est enim homo qui non
peccet“. — Fol 120va: prophetes Bethel seduxit prophetam dei“. —