Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1980, Síða 133
N
Reykjavik Lbs. fragm. 76 (see J. Benediktsson, p. 17) consists of
four small vellum fragments, one of which is N. N itself is the upper
part of a leaf, with 3 text-lines visible. The written space is 10 cm
wide. The script, as far as can be seen, belongs in the second half of
the fourteenth century. The fragment is much damaged, and there is a
hole right through it. See Plate 119.
Contents:
F. (l)r: Ps. 128, 4-6
F. (l)v: The last half of the prayer after ps. 130, from ‘deprecamur
clemenciam’ till the end. Ps. 131, only ‘Memento domine dauid’.
O
Stockholm Kungl. Bibi. Isl. perg. 4:o, no. 18, cover of (see Godel,
pp. 59-62). This manuscript contains a series of Icelandic sagas,
written c. 1300 and later. For the cover, fragments of two Latin
manuscripts were used.
a) Front cover fragment. A bifolium of non-consecutive leaves, very
dark and damaged. The written space measures c. 19x10 cm, with 36
long lines to the page. The manuscript from which these leaves were
taken was written in the early twelfth century in an exquisite style,
probably of foreign origin.
Contents:
F.(l)rv: Hieronymus, Vita Sancti Hilarionis, cap. 14-20, ed. PL
23, 35C-38B.
F. (2)r: Ibid. cap. 35-37, ed. PL 23, 48C-49B.
F. (2)v is hidden by a fragment of a leaf from a psalter, pasted onto
it.
See Plate 121, with reproduction of f. (l)v.
St. Jerome wrote three lives of saints, of St. Hilarion, St. Malchus,
and St. Paul the Hermit; the latter two exist in Icelandic translation
from the Middle Ages, edited by C. R. Unger, Heilagra Manna
Sogur, 1 (Christiania 1877), pp. 437-46, and 2, pp. 183-92, respec-
tively.