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171ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT PRODUCTION
Shelf mark
and name
Number
of folios
Date1 Hand
(H)
Illuminator
(A)
Textual
content
GKS 1157 fol.
(Konungsbók
Grágásar)
13 13002 H Kri 2
(ff. 1r–13 v)
A Kri 1
(f. 1r);
A Kri 2
(ff. 1v–13v)
Grágás
80 12503 H Kri 1
(ff. 14r–93v)
A Kri 2
(ff. 14r–93v)
Grágás
AM 241
b I β fol.
2 1250–754 H Kri 1
(ff. 1r–2v)
None Psalterium
Davidis
JS fragm 14 2 1250–755 H Kri 1
(ff. 1r–2v)
None Lection-
arium
Lbs fragm 82
(Kringla)
1 1258–646 H Kri 1
(f. 1r–1v)
A Kri 1
(f. 1r);
(ff. 1v–13v)
Ólafs saga
helga
AM 334 fol.
(Staðarhólsbók
Grágásar)
1 13007 H Kri 4
(f. 1r)
None Jónsbók
91 1271–728 H Kri 1
(ff. 1v–92r)
A Kri 1
(ff. 1v, 12r, 19r,
27v, 37r, 51r); A
Kri 2
(ff. 1v–91r)
Grágás
17 1271–819 H Kri 3
(ff. 92v–108r)
H Kri 2
(ff. 92v–108r)
Járnsíða
Table 1: The Kringla group
1 according to Stefán Karlsson, “the Localisation and Dating,” 140, it is almost impossible to date medieval
Icelandic manuscripts more narrowly than to within 50 years if the dating is based on the script and
orthography only. It should be taken into account that parts of the following discussion, therefore, cannot
be based on secure datings.
2 ole Widding, “Håndskriftanalyser. 5. GkS 1157 fol. Hånd a i Konungsbók af Grágás,” Opuscula II (1961): 75.
3 Stefán Karlsson, “Kringum Kringlu,” 21.
4 Stefán Karlsson, “Davíðsálmar,” 50.
5 Stefán Karlsson, “Davíðsálmar,” 50.
6 Stefán Karlsson, “Kringum Kringlu,” 17.
7 Kristian Kålund, Katalog over den Arnamagnæanske håndskriftsamling, I (Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Bog-
handel, 1889), 275.
8 Sigurður Líndal, “Hvers vegna var Staðarhólsbók Grágásar skrifuð?” Tímarit lögfræðinga 48/4 (1988), 293;
for a similar conclusion, see also Gunnar Karlsson, “Inngangur,” Grágás. Lagasafn íslenska þjóðveldisins,
ed. Gunnar Karlsson, Kristján Sveinsson and Mörður Árnason (reykjavík: Mál og menning, 1992), xvi.
for a discussion of the dating of aM 334 fol., see Lena rohrbach, “Matrix of the Law? a Material Study
of Staðarhólsbók,” The Power of Book. Medial Approaches to Medieval Nordic Legal Manuscripts, ed. Lena
rohrbach (Berlin: nordeuropa-Institut der Humboldt-universität, 2014), 99–101.
9 Jón Helgason, Introduction to Njáls saga. The Arna-Magnæan Manuscript 468, 4to (Reykjabók) (Copenhagen:
Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1962), ix.