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Two folio-sized leaves from a gradual, MS AM 266 4°, owned by
the church of Gufudalur (Bar6.) in the 1470s, have been identified by
M. M. Lårusson as being in the same hånd. F. (l)r of AM 266 4°,
originally left blank, contains charters relating to this church; ff. (l)v-
(2)v contain the order for Holy Week according to the use of Nidaros
in Icelandic translation, followed by texts for the Ordinary of the
Mass with musical notation: Kyriale, Benedicamus Domino, with
rules for its use, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.8 A great number of leaves
from this gradual have been identified in AM Access, (see below, pp.
60 sq.).
The provenance of the Missale Scardense, the church of SkarS å
Skar&sstrond (Dal.), is known to us from Arni Magnusson’s notes
conceming this manuscript, written before it was dismembered.
The Missale Scardense, measuring c. 29x19 cm of written space,
has musical notation throughout and contains the sequences of the
Nidaros use with Icelandic additions. Jon Lorlåksson wrote 32 lines to
the page, his fellow-scribe 28. The Temporale from Advent to Holy
Saturday was Jon’s work (see Eggen 2, Facsimiles 199-215); his
fellow-scribe continued from Resurrection Sunday to the end of the
Temporale (Ibid., Facsimiles 216-218, and 279-294). The Sanctorale
was wholly Jon’s work (Ibid., Facsimiles 226-233). Some leaves from
the Common of the saints, of 32 lines, also written by Jon, may also
have belonged to it (Ibid., Facsimiles 310-312).
A bifolium of non-consecutive leaves, used for the binding of a book
from Åmi Magnusson’s library, ‘Caroli Lundii Notæ ac Observatio-
nes. .. Upsalis MDCCIII’, now catalogued as Copenhagen Univ. Bibi.
Sg. 21701, were identified by Jon Helgason (see Eggen 1, Introduc-
tion, p. LII). They are written by Jon Forlåksson’s fellow-scribe. F.
(1) contains the sequence ‘Lauda Syon’, which should be inserted after
Facsimile 292; f. (2) contains the postcommunion of the Mass of
Sunday 10 after Trinity and the Mass of Sunday 11, ending part-way
through the sequence ‘Stans a longe’; this should be inserted after
Facsimile 294.
The next two fragments, both written by Jon f>orlåksson, belong to
the Sanctorale, and should be inserted after Facsimile 233:
Copenhagen Det kongelige Bibliotek MS NKS 1265 IIa fol. (see
8 See M. M. Lårusson, OrSubrot frå Gufudal: KirkjuritiS, 24 (Reykjavik 1958), pp.
203-14.