Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1980, Síða 130
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Rubrics are in red. Each psalm-verse begins on a new line with
verse-initials placed in the margins and in the empty spaces between
the columns, in red and green, alternately; the vacant spaces at the
line-ends have been filled in with wavy or frieze-formed scrolls, also in
red and green, alternately.
The ‘ordinary’ psalms have 4-line initials, ps. 61, a 5-line initial; that
of ps. 68 extends over thirteen lines, all decorated with vegetal scrolls,
the latter in a particularly rich, leafy pattern.
In the upper margin of f. (l)r a few words in Icelandic have been
added in a later hånd, and added in the outer margin of f. (2)r, facing
ps. 68, we find the beginning of a ferial antiphon of the liturgical
psalter, ‘Domine deus’, possibly continued in the upper margin, but
now hardly legible.
This manuscript seems to be the oldest of our psalter fragments and
also the most well-written. As for size and general disposition, it may
have served as the model of MSS A, K, M. See Plates 111-113.
Contents:
F. (l)r: Ps. 60,3-in finem. Versicles, prayer. Ps. 61,1-8
F. (l)v: Ps. 61,9 - Ps. 63,3 (lac.)
F. (2)rv: Ps. 67,26 - Ps. 68,1-21
The same outstanding scribe also wrote an antiphoner of which four
leaves, used for bindings by Arni Magnusson, are found in AM
Access. 7b. This is probably the oldest extant Icelandic antiphoner
written according to the use of the Nidaros Ordinary (see AN, p. 255).
Ff. (1-2) are consecutive leaves. They contain the following Offices,
or part of them:
F. (l)rv, from AM 162 8°: (30 June) St. Paul, (1 July) Octave of
St. John the Baptist
F. (2)rv, from AM 454 4°: (2 July) St. Swithun, (4 July) Transla-
tion of St. Martin (lac.)
F. (3)rv, from AM 454 4°: (22 July) St. Mary Magdalen (lac.)
F. (4)rv, from AM 779b 4°: (1 November) All Saints. See Plate
114, with reproduction of f. (l)r