Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.10.1967, Page 236

Some points on AM 171, 8vo.
By John S. McKinnell.
This little 16th century Ms., which contains an Icelandic church
calendar, preceded by a short treatise on the calculation of the
moveable feasts, is interesting for two reasons. Its history of owner-
ship can be more completely determined than has so far been done,
and it can be used to verify the exact dates of some events in Ice-
landic history.
The catalogue of the Arnamagnæan collection dates it to the end
of the 16th century1, but it is possible to be more precise than this.
There are, among other additions to the original substance of the
Ms., two notes at the end of the calendar, on f 15r. The first of these
is almost completely illegible; the second is much clearer, and is in
a hånd which more closely resembles that of the main body of the
Ms., but is not identical with it—the form of the letter Z, for ex-
ample, has a loop at the top in the note, which is absent from it
in the main part of the Ms. The date 1589 in this note cannot there-
fore be applied to the Ms. as a whole—since the note was obviously
added after the main part of the Ms. was complete, the Ms. itself
must be dated before 1589.
I read this second note as follows:
Alldwr barnwa Gunnars G.( ?) sonar
m.d.lxxx og ix
Biom xxviij vetwr Pietwr xx vetwr
Pall xvij Ingibiorg xxxiij
Solueg xxiij
1 “Katalog over Den Amamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling”, Vol. 2, Copen
hagen, 1894, p. 431, item 2383.