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I. Lbs 633, fol.
Lbs 633, fol. is a very large manuscript, containing thirty-four
sagas. The 675 leaves are paginated, beginning with f. lv, but
there are several mistakes (the numbers 14 and 1002 are used
twice, the numbers 447-448, 970-989 and 1000 are not used,
and pages are left unnumbered after pp. 71, 109, 201 and 226).
The manuscript is in several unidentified hånds.
The origin of the manuscript seems clear from a note stuck in
at the top of f. Ir, though this is not referred to in the Catalogue.
The note is damaged, and has lost words or letters at the beginning
and end of each line, including unfortunately the year in which
it was written. It reads:
[. . . sh]refne Jsslandshe og Norshe sager [.../... frem]mede Historier
hafuer ieg undershr[efne / sammensan]chet og Ladet shrifue. Til vitter-
lighed / . . . e]gen haand. Tingåere d. 2 Junij: [...]/ LGottr[up].
The writer of the note is Lauritz Gottrup (l.Æ. III, 393-4;
Syslumannaæfir I, 590-6), who lived at Lingeyrar from 1684
until his death in 1721. The manuscript must date from this period.
There are several pieces of information about the history of the
manuscript in the eighteenth century. A note on f. Ir, quoted in
the Catalogue, reads:
E>essa Sogu Bok hefur mier giefed minn Elskulegur modur frænde og Broder
Borbiérn salugi Biarnna son A 1750 [or 1740] enn nu af mier Jnn bundenn
A: 1781 dag 21 Marsij Kar Olaffsson] ad munadamese
Kår (5lafsson must be the man mentioned in Syslumannaæfir
II, 700. Some of his relatives are known, but not Lorbjorn Bjarna-
son.
It seems that the manuscript had been bound once before during
Kår (3lafsson’s ownership of it, as the title-page includes the phrase:
Nw ad mju Jnnbundinn Annå. MDCGLX.
The title-page and list of contents are said in the Catalogue,
without explanation, but presumably as a deduction from the
palaeography and the appearance of the paper, to have been
written in the nineteenth century. They may perhaps be early
nineteenth century copies of pages first written in 1760, for there
is an indication that the manuscript received attention again in
the nineteenth century. At pp. 265, 289 and 295 three pieces of