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date only, they are here listed by date, place of publication, and lan-
guage:
Original version
1532 Wittenberg German
1554 Wittenberg Danish
Melanchthon-Peucer
1572 Wittenberg Latin
1573 Wittenberg German
1595 Copenhagen Danish
I. Miscellaneous references to Chronica Carionis
Bishop Gissur Einarsson bought in Hamburg in 1540 “Chronicam
magistri Joannis Carionis” for the price of “7 solidos” (Diplomatarium
Islandicum X, 1911-21, p. 487). In Copenhagen in 1542 Bishop Gissur
bought “chronica joannis carionis” for “x skildinga” and had it bound:
“fyrir at binda cronicam joannis carionis viij skildinga” (Dipi. Isl. XI,
1915-25, p. 152). The 1540 purchase is probably the “Chronica Joannis
carionis” that appears in a list of books the bishop brought with him
from Iceland to Copenhagen in 1542 (ibid., p. 191), and the copy
bought in Copenhagen in 1542 is probably the one sent back to Iceland
with Henrik Hynsken (ibid., p. 192). Christian Westergård-Nielsen
suggests that Gissur may have bought Low German versions printed in
1534 and 1542,6 but this is not certain. The bishop may have wanted
different versions and bought the Latin translation of 1537 as one of
them. Westergård-Nielsen also says (loc. cit.): “AM 227, 8vo, bl. 2v.
omtaler som existerende i Skålholt 1558 ‘Chronica Mundi.’ Dette må
efter al sandsynlighed være et af Gissurs exemplarer.”
In 1574 Bishop GuSbrandur Porlåksson wrote a letter to Paul Mad-
sen, bishop of Zealand, in which he asked him to send him some
especially with reference to the supposed use of Carion in Oddverja-Annåll (section II
of this paper). The Swedish translation and Gunnarsen’s Latin poem have been exam-
ined and determined to be of no significance for this study. The date of the Swedish
version, 1649, is late, since editions of Chronica Carionis declined markedly after the
end of the sixteenth century. The latest edition recorded in the British Museum General
Catalogue of Printed Books is 1625 (not counting the Corpus Reformatorum edition of
1834). This is also the latest edition listed in the more extensive National Union Catalog:
Pre-1956 Imprints (USA).
6 To bibelske visdomsbøger og deres islandske overlevering, Bibi. Arn. XVI (Copen-
hagen 1957), p. 142.