Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.2003, Page 176
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Forrest S. Scott
Some of the leaves are now loose and many are mutilated. It would
appear that the first quire ends after p. 14; the bottom of that leaf is tom
off. Subsequent quires end at pp. 30, 46, 62, 78, 94, 110, 126, 142, 158,
176; thereafter most of the leaves are loose, though there are traces of
repairs. The volume appears to have been used a great deal, both for
reading and copying.
Pagination The manuscript is paginated, in a different hånd, up to
p. 130. The remaining page numbers have here been assumed. After the
pagination ceases, leaf numbers (not all now visible) are given on the
recto of every tenth leaf, 70, 80, 90 etc., except for the last, 109, which
is written at the foot of p. 217.
Blank pages The writing (Hånd i - see below) breaks off on p. 14
after seven lines; the remainder of the incomplete p. 14 and the whole
of p. 15 are blank, except for the name ‘Thorlaku[r]’, see below, p. 171,
and show traces of old paste. On p. 16 Hånd ii starts from exactly the
point where p. 14 began. Clearly pp. 14-15 have been pasted together,
perhaps because the paper of p. 14 was somehow unsuitable for writing
on or because someone called Forlåkur had scribbled his name on p. 15.
The other break in the text is more difficult to explain. P. 117, after 14
lines, ends with “enn vmm veturinn”, which words also begin p. 119.
P. 118 (a verso) has been left blank. The texts of the passages before and
after this break have the same characteristics, and there is not a change
of hånd at this point.
Chapter numbering Certain errors occurred in the numbering of
chapters.
i) The chapter for which one would have expected 41 is not num-
bered.
ii) The chapter numbering jumps from 49 to 61, with an unnumbered
chapter between these two beginning with “Fad er nu Jtuy næst” on
p. 159.
iii) The chapter following 69 is 80.
II. When and where written
IB 180 8vo concludes with the colophon “Klorud j munadar nese:
Anno: 1654: af Jone Porarinzsine”. The date is thus beyond question.
As regards the place, MunaSames must be the farm of that name in