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179ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT PRODUCTION
Shelf mark and name Number
of folios
Date Hand (H)
AM 325 VIII 4 c 4to 2 1300–251 H Bar 1 (ff. 1r–2v)
AM 45 fol. (Codex Frisianus) 124 1300–252 H Bar 1 (ff. 1r–97rb;
ff. 98vb–124r)
H Bar 3 (f. 98ra–va)
AM 241 a I fol. & AM 249 p fol. 48 13253 H Bar 1 (ff. 1r–48v)
Perg 4to 4 & AM 325 XI 2 h 4to 73 1320–404 H Bar 2 (ff. 1r–73v)
AM 671 4to 63 1320–405 H Bar 2 (ff. 5r, 17r–26r,
30r–31v, 33v–34r, 34v,
35r–35v, 63r); further hands
AM 241 b I γ fol. 1 1325–506 unknown
AM 399 4to (Codex Resenianus) 74 1330–507 H Bar 2 (ff. 1v–74v)
AM 346 fol. (Staðarfellsbók) 85 1340–608 H Bar 2 (ff. 1v –84r)
Add. 1 fol. (Ártíðaskrá Vestfirðinga) 7 13509 H Bar 2 (ff. 1r–7v)
AM 122 a fol. (Króksfjarðarbók) 110 1350–7010 H Bar 2 (ff. 63r–69v; ff.
70r–94v); H Bar 4 (ff.
1r–43r); H Bar 5
(ff. 43v–62v); H Hel 1
(ff. 70r–94v)
Illuminator (A) Textual content
None Sverris saga, Bǫglunga sǫgur
a Bar 1 (ff. 1r–v, 14r, 18v, 19v, 21v, 23v,
29r, 37r, 41v, 56v, 60v, 66v, 69v, 75r, 84r);
a Bar 2 (ff. 1r –124r)
Heimskringla
a Bar 2 (ff. 1r–48v) Horae de passione domini,
Ártíðaskrá Vestfirðinga
a Bar 2 (ff. 1r–73v) Óláfs saga helga
None Theological handbook
a Bar 2 (f. 1) Psaltarium
a Bar 2 (ff. 1v–74v) Guðmundar saga biskups
a Bar 2 (ff. 1v –84r) Jónsbók, Járnsíða, Kristinréttr Árna biskups, Grágás
a Bar 2 (ff. 1r–7v) Ártíðaskrá Vestfirðinga
a Bar 2 (ff. 1r–109v) Sturlunga saga
in West Iceland. In addition, Liepe also named the group the ‘Ártíðaskrá
Vestfirðinga group’, according to related obituaries in two of the codices
of the group.24 Prior to Liepe, Stefán Karlsson pointed to the broader
district of Barðastrandarsýsla as the original location for the production of
the eleven manuscripts and fragments.25 Stefán’s suggested provenance for
the second group will be adopted here. the Barðastrandarsýsla group was
written by five hands between c. 1300 to 1370.
Lena Liepe made a detailed art historical study of this group and con-
cluded that the pen-flourishing of most of the illuminated manuscripts
in this group are the work of a single illuminator (a Bar 2). the large,
24 Lena Liepe, Studies, 240.
25 Stefán Karlsson, Introduction to Guðmundar sögur, xli.