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present the oldest missals, manuals, lectionaries and breviaries used in
medieval Iceland, and other items concerning Icelandic liturgical
history. As regards psalters, we have concentrated on a psalter of
fifteen divisions of which a great many manuscript fragments have
been traced. The most extensive of these fragments is in the early
fourteenth-century MS AM 241a fol. The private prayers and other
items in this very representative manuscript have also been examined.
The fragments deposited in the Landsbokasafn, the National Library
of Iceland, have been summarily catalogued by J. Benediktsson. Those
used for the covers of Icelandic manuscripts in Kungliga Biblioteket,
Stockholm, are given only brief mention in Godel’s catalogue. In
Kålund’s catalogue of the Arnamagnæan Library (1889-1894) the
fragments that Åmi Magnusson deemed worthy of survival have been
entered. After the completion of his catalogue, Kålund removed a great
many of the liturgical fragments used for bindings and registered them
as AM Access, la-e.1 For convenience, a series of psalter fragments
found in AM Access. 7d have been given Roman numerals, Psalters I-
XV, of which nos. I-II and VII-XI belong to our group of fifteen
divisions. A number of Norwegian fragments are referred to in the
following pages according to their numeration in Riksarkivet, Oslo; a
serial number added in brackets, e.g. Oslo RA Lat. fragm. 795 (= Br
6), refers to the collection of photographic reproductions found in
Norsk historisk Kjeldeskrift-Institutt, Oslo.
7 For the growth, the organization, and the utilization of this collection during and
after Kålund’s time, see Merete Geert Andersen, Colligere fragmenta, ne pereant.
With an English Summary: Opuscula, 7 = Bibliotheca Amamagnæana, 34 (Hafniæ
1979), pp. 1-35.