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f. (1), to be placed after Facsimile 316, with the continuation of the
rare, or unique, St. Lucy sequence ‘Regem celi cantico’, and the only
existing full text with musical notation of the St. Magnus sequence,
‘Comitis generosi’; f. (2), to be placed before Facsimile 252, contain-
ing the beginning of the sequence ‘Celi enarrant gloriam’.
Jon Forlåksson’s fellow-scribe also wrote a gradual which has 13
note-lines to the page; see Eggen 2, Facsimiles 260-278.
Only minor fragments have survived of other graduals written by Jon
t>orlåksson. Two leaves are found in MS AM 241b IV fol., ff. 1-2 =
Eggen 2, Facsimiles 188-191, and there are two leaves from MS AM
Access. 7ap (Cod. J) = Ibid., Facsimiles 324-327, all with 12 note-
lines to the page measuring c. 20/22x16/17 cm of written space,
possibly belonging to the same gradual.
Three leaves, found in the National Museum of Reykjavik, with 13
note-lines and a written space of c. 29x19 cm, represent another
gradual; see Eggen 2, Facsimiles 169-174.
A mutilated leaf from a gradual with 14 lines visible, measuring c.
29/31 cm between the upper and lower margins, Reykjavik Lbs. fragm.
46 = Eggen 2, Facsimile 175, seems to stand alone (could it have
belonged together with the above-cited Munkafiverå fragment, MS AM
80 8°?).
Jon Forlåksson also wrote an antiphoner and a breviary, both repre-
sented by small fragments. MS AM 241b III 3 fol. is a single leaf from
an antiphoner, measuring c. 30x18,5 cm of written space with 14 lines
to the page. It contains part of St. Olav’s proper Office, 29 July.9 Two
leaves of a breviary, used for the binding of Stockholm Kungl. Bibi.
Isl. papp. 4:o, no. 27, are also his work (see below, p. 92). The only
complete manuscript from his hånd is a Book of Hours, Brit. Mus.
MS Add. 4895 duodez. (see below, pp. 126-27).10
9 See G. Reiss, Musiken ved den middelalderlige Olavsdyrkelse i Norden =
Videnskapsselskapets Skrifter, II (1911), no. 5 (Kristiania 1912), p. 69; AN, pp. 259,
262 sq.
10 For a reconstruction of the Missale Scardense and the Graduale Gufudalense, see
Merete Geert Andersen, Colligere fragmenta, op. cit. (above, p. 8, note 7):
Opuscula, 7 = Bibliotheca Amamagnæana, 34 (Hafniæ 1979), pp. 1-35.
- On the manuscripts written by Jon t>orlåksson, see further S. Karlsson, Sex
skriffingur: Ibid., pp. 36-43, with an edition of two prayers in the vemacular from MS
Add. 4895 duodez.