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SUMMARY
This article is a detailed presentation of the manuscript AM 622 4to, the so-called
Hólmsbók; the author delineates its contents and discusses the other literary activity of
its scribe, Gísli Jónsson, later bishop in Skálholt. The precise division of the manu-
script into quires is described, and the author suggests that its final section had origi-
nally been a complete and perhaps independent whole. The manuscript might thus be
taken as the first representative of a new method in book production, which first be-
comes apparent in the diverse production of booklets in the late Middle Ages. The final
part of the article discusses sacred poetry and poems on the decadence of the world,
with examples showing the ways in which Reformation poets transformed earlier
Catholic religious texts.
Gu›rún Nordal
Íslenskuskor
Hugvísindadeild Háskóla Íslands
gnordal@hi.is