Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1980, Síða 128
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Ps. 106 (f. 3v) is preceded by the rubric liber quartus, which is
probably a scribal error for liber quintus, referring to the biblical
divisions of the Psalter into five books, at ps. 1, 41, 72, 89, 106, in the
Vulgate’s numeration. As far as can be ascertained, this rare feature
occurs only in F.
The calendar MS AM 249f fol. (see Kålund, AM 1, p. 228),
written by the same scribe (except for one leaf), was formerly prefixed
to F. The provenance of this calendar is known; a note attached to it
by Åmi Magnusson says that it came from the church of Vallanes (S.
Muh, diocese of Skålholt), and that it was bound together with a
psalter: ‘Fra Vallaness kirkiu j var i spiolldum; og Talltari aptanvid.’
Among the numerous additions to this calendar is the dedication by
Bishop Oddgeir of the church of Vallanes to St. John the Baptist on St.
Alexis’ day, 17 July, 1367 (see DI 3, pp. 237-38; ON, p. 43). The
older church charters of Vallanes do not mention psalters; the charter
of 1471, September 4, lists ‘dauids salltara storann’, i.e. a large-sized
psalter, hardly identical with our F (DI 5, pp. 629-32). See Plate 106.
The calendar consists of three bifolia, ff. 1-6, and a separate leaf, f.
7. F. Ir is blank, ff. lv-6v contain the months January-November. F. 7
with the month of December on the recto, and a pascal table on the
verso, possibly a replacement of a lost leaf, is written in a later hånd,
with Arabic numerals for the days from 14 to 31 December.
See below, pp. 121 sqq.
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Reykjavik Lbs. MS JS 6 8°, the cover (see J. Benediktsson, p. 24).
A bifolium of non-consecutive leaves. The outer margin and part of
the adjacent text has been trimmed from f. (1). F. (l)v and f. (2)r,
which formed the outside of the cover, are nearly illegible. The written
space is 14x11,5/12 cm, with 22 long lines to the page.
Date: fourteenth century, probably the second half. Verse-initials are
written in red. Ps. 74 and ps. 82 have 3-line initials, in light and dark
red; ps. 81 a 4-line initial in green and red.
Provenance: MS JS 6 8°, in Icelandic, was the work of Gisli Bjarna-
son, vicar of Sta6ur in Grindavik (Gullbr.), written in 1640 (see LÆ 2,
p. 42). See Plate 109.