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produced in or near to ecclesiastical institutions in the fourteenth century,
such as GKS 3269 b 4to and AM 168 b 4to from the wider network of the
western Icelandic Augustinian Helgafell workshop,19 and AM 127 4to and
GKS 3269 b 4to from the northern Icelandic Benedictine scriptorium at
Þingeyrar,20 were actively used in the fifteenth century, and comments of
the mise en pages of the older unit, and adding those sections of Jónsbók that were missing
at that time. In the early sixteenth century, a table of contents, as well as further vernacular
and Latin formulas were added on ff. 150vb–157v by several scribes. For the provenance
and textual content of Skarðsbók, see Jakob Benediktsson, Introduction to Skarðsbók:
Jónsbók and Other Laws and Preceipts, ed. Jakob Benediktsson (Copenhagen: Munksgaard,
1943), 11–15; Lena Rohrbach, “Repositioning Jónsbók;” and Stefan Drechsler, Illuminated
Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021), 63–72. For the dat-
ing of the second and third production units, see Ólafur Halldórsson, “Skarðsbók – upp-
runi og ferill,” Skarðsbók: Codex Scardensis AM 350 fol., eds. Jónas Kristjánsson, Ólafur
Halldórsson, and Sigurður Líndal (Reykjavík: Lögberg, 1981), 20, 23.
19 GKS 3269 b 4to was written in the wider network of the Augustinian monastery at
Helgafell and consists today of three production units: ff. 1ra–62va21 was written in 1330–
40 and features the I-redaction of Jónsbók. Ff. 62va22–66va was written in 1350–1400 and
consists of (mainly) trade-related Réttarbœtr, and f. 66vb from 1400–1500, which includes
a unique redaction of the agreement Gamli sáttmáli. The fragmented codex AM 168 b 4to
originates from the wider Helgafell network too, and was written in two steps: Ff. 1r–11v
from 1360 contains Kristinréttr Árna byskups, and ff. 12r–15v from 1475–1500 features
Gamli sáttmáli, a statute from 1479 by Bishop Magnús Eyjólfsson on ecclesiastical matters
and a Réttarbót by King Magnús Erlingsson (1156–84) from 1163/64 written by the scribe
and poet Bjarni Narfason, as well as a single text by a further scribe featuring the third gen-
eral Réttarbót for Iceland from 1314. For their dating, see Ólafur Halldórsson, Introduction
to Jónsbók, xli; Gustav Storm, Norges gamle Love indtil 1387, IV (Christiania: Grøndahl &
Søn, 1885), 408; Kristian Kålund, Katalog over den Arnamagnæanske håndskriftsamling, II
(Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1900), 72, and Kristian Kålund, Katalog, I, 445.
20 The oldest production unit of AM 127 4to on ff. 1v–98v was written in 1350 at the northern
Icelandic Benedictine monastery at Þingeyrar by a single scribe. It features the I-redaction
of Jónsbók, as well as the Réttarbœtr from 1294, 1305, and 1314. During the fifteenth cen-
tury, annotations were added to the margins of the Jónsbók text by several scribes. Finally,
in 1450, a description of the land belonging to the farm at Höllustaðir (in Reykhólasveit
or Húnavatnsþing) was added to f. 98vb9–16. Most parts of GKS 3269 b 4to on ff. 12va–
87rb17 and ff. 87va–103vb were written in 1350 by the same scribe as AM 127 4to, and
feature, besides Jónsbók and the two Réttarbœtr from 1294 and 1305, the ecclesiastical
Kristinréttr Árna Þorlákssonar, as well as Statuta Vilhjálms kardinála from 17 August 1247
on holy days and the property of the Church. In 1498–1520, several scribes contributed to
a list of bishops on F. 87rb18–25 from the northern Icelandic diocese of Hólar. In addition,
ff. 1–11 feature material from the seventeenth century including a registry of Jónsbók and
several oath formulas for lawmen. For their dating, see Alfred Jakobsen, Studier i Clarus
saga (Bergen and Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1964), 46, 12; Kristian Kålund, Katalog, I, 416
and Katalog, II, 71; Diplomatarium Islandicum, Íslenzkt fornbréfasafn, V, ed. Jón Þorkelsson
(Copenhagen and Reykjavík: S. L. Møller and Félagsprentsmiðja, 1899–1902), 81.