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nens is a case where the Bible, here Is. 47:7b, has provided a ready-
made summary of an excessively verbose passage in the original (cf. K
331-36).
The text of BKB is thus too heavily rewritten to warrant reprinting in
this edition. Some of the variants discussed above are, however, inclu-
ded in the apparatus.
2.2.3. Stockholm, Royal Library K 92:2 4:o (As, Rs). In 1652 the bulk of
the library of the recently deceased historiographer Stephanus Johannis
Stephanius (Stephanius the Younger) was shipped from Denmark to
Sweden. It had been sold by Stephanius’s impoverished widow to an
agent acting for the Swedish count Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie, and the
greater part of this acquisition survives today in the de la Gardie collec-
tion at the library of Uppsala University.44 A few items from Stephanius’s
library wandered by unknown paths to other libraries in Sweden, among
them the former diocesan and college library at Kalmar, where two of the
Danish scholar’s manuscripts remained until the twentieth century.
The two manuscripts in question have now been transferred to the
Swedish Royal Library in Stockholm, where they are kept under the
press-marks K 92:1-2. Their existence has been known to librarians
since 1858, when the Swede Carl Johan Fant noticed them in Kalmar
and communicated a list of their contents to R G. Thorsen at the Univer-
sity Library in Copenhagen.45 Only the second manuscript, K 92:2, is of
relevance to the present study. According to the typewritten catalogue in
the Royal Library, Stockholm, it contains 155 numbered leaves of paper
and measures ca. 20 x 16 cm (I have only seen photographs of the origi-
nal). A not inconsiderable portion is in the hånd of Stephanius the Elder,
but on ff. 7-52 there is a collection of material copied by Stephanius the
Younger himself46 under the long-winded title: Infulæ Cimbricæ, sive
44 Cf. Ellen Jørgensen, “Stephanus Johannis Stephanii Manuskriptsamling,” in: Nordisk
Udskrift for bok- och biblioteksvåsen 4, 1917, 19-28.
45 S. Birket Smith, Om Kjøbenhavns Universitetsbibliothekfør 1728, især dets Håndskrift-
samlinger, Copenhagen 1882, 38 n. 1 (Gertz does not seem to have been aware of Fant’s
inventory, for at VSD 181, n. 1, he refers to “et Haandskrift i Kalmar i Sverige, som først
for nylig er bleven fremdraget”). - I have to thank Eva Dillman, Handskriftsenheten,
Kungl. biblioteket, Stockholm, and Gunila Rooth, Kalmar stadsbibliotek, for prompt an-
swers to my queries on this subject.
46 Cf. Jørgensen (n. 44 above) 27 and notes.