Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1980, Qupperneq 49

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AM 98 II 8° consists of one quire, originally of twelve leaves:
(IV)
F. (23)rv = pp. 45-46/
x
f. (24)rv = pp. 47-48
f. (25)rv = pp. 49-50
f. (26)rv = pp. 51-52
f. (27)rv = pp. 53-54
x (stub visible)
x
f. (31)rv = pp. 61-62
f. (30)rv = pp. 59-60
f. (29)rv = pp. 57-58
f. (28)rv = pp. 55-56
The second pair of leaves is missing. The poor-quality vellum used for
the manuscript has not withstood time as well as that of AM 98 I 8°.
Nearly all the leaves have been somewhat damaged. The general
proportions are approximately the same as for part I, above, but there
are only 18-19 lines to the page for the lessons and prayers and 6-7
lines for the texts with musical notation; f. (24)r = p. 47, with the text
of the sequence ‘Comitis generosi’, is an exception and runs to 24
lines. Rubrics and initials are in red, and there is musical notation on
four black lines. The text is written in the late-medieval quadrangular
hånd, probably in the last quarter of the fifteenth century. The content
is three masses, here numbered 20-22. See Plate 31.
In our edition of AM 98 I 8°, the Norwegian manuals (ManNor),
dating from c. 1200 onwards, have been used for textual comparison of
the masses. Liturgical fragments dating from the tenth and eleventh
centuries are extant in the Norwegian collections of fragments; only the
manuals, however, give us a continuous tradition of texts before the
introduction of the Nidaros Ordinary (ON) in the early thirteenth
century. Together with the manual proper, they also contain an
itinerant missal which offers scope for comparison with our Icelandic
manuscript.
The original, lost, quire I is likely to have contained the first two
Christmas Masses, in gallicantu, and in aurora, with the beginning of
the summa missa; the original, lost, quire III (which came after f. (7)
= pp. 39-40), probably contained the continuation of the Mass of the
Ascension, the Mass of Pentecost, and the beginning of the Mass of
the Holy Trinity, which is continued on f. (8) = pp. 13-14.
Hamarsfiråi 1627-35, and of Mosfell i Grimsnesi 1635-60; see S. Nielsson, Presta tal
og profasta å Islandi2 (Reykjavik 1950), pp. 30, 90.