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I II
X X 6 9
1 5 X X
2 x X X
3 4 7 8
psalter. The outer margins have been partly trimmed.
The written space measures 19x12/13 cm with 23
long lines to the page. Prickings for ruling are visible
in the untrimmed outer margins.
b) Copenhagen Universitetsbiblioteket. Four leaves of this psalter
have been used for the bindings of books formerly belonging to Åmi
Magnusson; of these, ff. (10-11) were identified by Jon Helgason, f.
(12) and f. (15) by Merete Geert Andersen.
The calendar MS AM 249d fol. (see Kålund, AM 1, p. 227)
originally belonged with the psalter C. A note by Åmi Magnusson,
attached to it, says that he had received it as a gift from Mag. Bjbm
Porleifsson (bishop of Holar 1697-1710) in 1703, prefixed to a
Psalterium Latinum, and that it might have come from (the church of)
SkinnastaSir. See Plate 96.
Ff. lv-7r contain the months January-December, f. 7v carries a
pascal table; on f. 8r, originally left blank, a charter of the church of
ReykjahliS (S. Ping.), dated 17 February 1573, has been entered; on f.
8v there is a drawing of the Crucifixion (reproduced by H. Hermanns-
son, Plate 13). For the calendar, see below, pp. 121 sqq.
This psalter was dated c. 1360-1370 by Åmi Magnusson (see
below, MS c). This date may be too early. The handwriting shows
late-medieval features; the scribe uses the diagonal, barred x, and
hairlines, and biurs the outlines of the r s, a feature found in
Flateyjarbok, written c. 1390.
Each psalm-verse begins on a new line, with a verse-initial placed in
the margin. The vacant spaces at the line-ends have been filled in with
various ornamental pattems: scrolls on red, blue, or yellow ground, or
a pattem of horizontal Ps, or a series of minims in red. The ‘ordinary’
psalms have 2-line initials; ps. 21 has a 3-line initial, and so had
probably ps. 61, but most of it has been shom off with the margin.
The colour-scheme of this manuscript is very varied. The verse-initi-
als are written in red and yellow alternately; psalm-initials are
frequently in red and yellow, sometimes with a touch of olive and blue,
or in red, blue and yellow, or in red and brown, or in brown and olive.
The A of Afferte, f. (9)r, has a bipartite colouring; the left half of the
letter is in red and yellow, the right half of it in blue and yellow. Cari-
catures of faces have been drawn in the D’s of f. (7)r and f. (11 )r. See
Plates 97-99.