Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1980, Blaðsíða 94

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Lectio . VIII. Vitam ergo uestram fratres karissimi ante mentis
oculos reuocate. . . atrociores iniurias reddit quam acceperat. Facit
ma[la]/
Gregorii hom. I, 18=PL 76, 1150B-1151A; Grégoire, p. 90 (PD I, 94); BN 173,
with less extensive text (1150 B-C).
2
The same outstanding scribe also wrote a lectionarium missae,
Reykjavik Lbs. fragm. 57 (see J. Benediktsson, p. 13), owned by a
private collector in the nineteenth century, and consisting of a
horizontally cut slice of a leaf of two columns. The margins and part of
the text near the outer margin have been trimmed. The width of the
written space was c. 18 cm. The fragment contains part of the Palm
Sunday Passion with recitation signs, c (celeriter, cito, citius) for the
narrator, s (sonoriter, sursum) for the populace. See Plate 53.
Recto, first column: Matth. 26, 73-75; second column: Matth. 27, 8-
9.
Verso, first column: Matth. 27, 19-21; second column: Matth. 27,
29-30.
Stockholm Kungliga Biblioteket Isl. perg. 4:o, nr. 10 (Godel, pp. 49-
50) has a fly-leaf from an old missal (see above, pp. 53-54). On the
inside of the front cover, a twelfth-century fragment of three lines has
also been used as a paste-down. Only the line-ends are visible. The
letter-forms are so to say identical to those of our outstanding scribe,
so the fragment may be evidence of a third manuscript written by him,
or it may have belonged to one of his two lectionaries.
3
Copenhagen MS AM 152 fol. (see Kålund, AM. 1, pp. 105-06) of the
fifteenth century, is well-known to students of Icelandic Sagas. It
consists of 202 leaves of vellum, bound in heavy wooden boards. The
Icelandic text ends on f. 20 lv; the following, last, leaf of the
manuscript is the binder’s fly-leaf. This leaf was made from two Latin
vellum fragments, a larger one (a), and a very small one (b), sewn
upside down to the lower margin of the larger fragment. In the
catalogue, the script has been dated ‘about 1300 or earlier’. Possibly,
‘about 1200 or earlier’ would be a more likely date. See Plates 54-55.