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also annotated.47 On the cover of fascicle F (ff. 2r-v, 13r) there are
notes by Arni Magnusson implying a date before the year 1717. It is
reasonable to suppose that BAM, containing lessons48 and a collect for
the Translation of St Knud Lavard, was written around the same time
as 1049.
BAM comprises a single quire of four leaves of paper measuring ca.
21.3 x 16.6 cm. The last page (f. 4v) is blank. The text was published as
early as 1776 in Langebek’s Scriptoresf9 the scribe’s exemplar was
doubtless some lost secular breviary, and a few variants hint at affinity
with the liturgical tradition of Roskilde or Odense (see p. 48 below).
2.3. Continuation of the Roskilde Chronicle and
short history of the kings of Denmark
As was noted in section 2.1.2, the second article in K is a copy of the
Roskilde Chronicle with its later continuation. While the greater part of the
continuation is missing in K due to the lacuna after f. 63, it survives intact
in AM 107 8vo (KålKatAM II395, no. 2311), an important but as yet inad-
equately studied paper manuscript containing the historical collectanea of
the sixteenth-century Franciscan friar Petrus Olai (Peder Olsen).50
107 is in notebook format measuring ca. 15.0 x 10.6 cm. The hand-
writing is elegant but minute and many abbreviations are employed.
471 have not investigated whether the same hånd is present in 6701. - Material in AM 670
e 4to relating to St Portaler is utilised in Jon Helgason (ed.), Byskupa SQgur, 2. hæfte (Edi-
tiones Amamagnæanæ A 13,2), Copenhagen 1978, 161-63, 169-71. On AM 1049 4to see
further Gertz VSD 5-6 (introduction to the legend of St Tøger); also bound into the manu-
script are two leaves (fascicle [I]) obtained from Peder Syv, with whom Åmi Magnusson
corresponded in the years before Syv’s death in 1702. Cf. Ellen Jørgensen, Helgendyrkelse
i Danmark. Studier over Kirkekultur og kirkeligt Liv fra det 11“ Aarhundredes Midte til
Reformationen, Copenhagen 1909,58 n. 1 (cf. 52 n. 4; an incorrect reference?), and Finnur
Jonsson, Ami Magniissons levned og skrifter (n. 1 above) 1:1 31, 45.
48 It is not clear whether there were six or nine lessons in the exemplar of BAM, but Gertz
was mistaken in saying that the extant copy of the text has no subdivisions (note to VSD
215,8); such subdivisions indisputably occur at ff. Ivl4, 3rl0, and 3v7.
49 See n. 11 above. The headnote in SRD IV 261 says that BAM was copied “ex Cod.
membr. in 4to, qvi [...] in Biblioth. Acad. Hafn. Caps. Ambros. Part. I. Ord. 4. No. 26.
extiterat.” I can find no authority for this statement in the manuscript.
50 Cf. Ellen Jørgensen, Historieforskning og Historieskrivning i Danmark indtil Aar 1800,
Copenhagen 1931, 82-85. For Stephanius the Younger’s transcript of the Roskilde Chro-
nicle, also preserving the continuation in its entirety, see SMHD I 9-10.