Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.10.1979, Side 53
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English summary
The medieval vellum fragments in Accessoria 7 (Acc. 7) in the Amamag-
næan Collection derive from manuscripts, mainly liturgical, which were in
various States of disrepair when they were acquired in Iceland by Årni
Magnusson (1663-1730). He used the leaves from these manuscripts to make
bindings for his secular manuscripts and printed books, but at the beginning of
this century the fragments were removed from the bindings and deposited in
Acc. 7.
In the first part of the article the author uses the archives of the
Amamagnæan Collection to cast light on the history of this valuable
collection. The second part concems the fragments in Acc. 7a which were
written by the Icelandic scribe Jon Lorlåksson in the third quarter of the
fifteenth century.
The removal of the vellum leaves from the bindings in which they were
incorporated can be dated to 1911-13. Kristian Kålund, librarian of the Arna-
magnæan Collection, with the help of the Danish musicologist Angul Hamme-
rich, subsequently divided the c. 500 fragments into six groups, registered as
follows: Acc. 7a a-P, sequences; Acc. 7b, other fragments with Gregorian
music; Acc. 7c, liturgical fragments without musical notation; Acc. 7d, psalter
fragments; Acc. 7e, Bible fragments. Hammerich was able to identify a large
number of sequence fragments, but the task of grouping them with a view to
reconstructing the codices from which they derived was entrusted to Gu5-
brandur Jonsson, later librarian at the Icelandic National Library. The
sequence fragments in Acc. 7a a-P, together with others, were edited by the
Norwegian musicologist Erik Eggen in The Sequences of the Archbishopric of
Nidards I-II (Bibliotheca Amamagnceana XXI-XXII, 1968). The paleogra-
phic descriptions in this edition were provided by Jon Helgason, who estab-
lished that several of the codices reconstructed by Gu&brandur Jonsson, as
well as other, subsequently discovered, fragments were written by Jon
Lorlåksson (ed. cit. vol. I, p. xliiff.).
Gubbrandur Jonsson reconstructed six codices, »Codex Scardensis« (Acc.
7aa), »Codex B« and »Codices D-G« (Acc. 7ap), but it is shown that the
fragments in faet derive from two large manuscripts. On the basis of a
systematic study of the Icelandic fragments in collections in Copenhagen, Rey-
kjavik and Stockholm it is possible to reconstruct these manuscripts: a (defeetive)
Missale Scardense of 65 leaves written between c. 1450 and 1478 by two scribes:
Jon Lorlåksson and a collaborator, and a (defeetive) Graduale Gufudalense of 3 7
leaves written by Jon Lorlåksson between c. 1450 and 1470 (schema pp. 31-34,
and description pp. 19-24).
Few Icelandic liturgical manuscripts from the middle ages have survived, so
our two reconstructed codices will be the subject of detailed study in the
future.