Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.2003, Blaðsíða 285

Acc. 7c, Hs. 94
271
save for a four-line initial P decorated with a vegetal scroll in red and
light blue (lvb,l), a one-line initial I in light blue (2ra,17), and a two-
line initial D in red and light blue (2rb,3).
At some point after the codex from which the leaves were taken was
dismantled, the bifolium which makes up Acc. 7c, Hs. 94, lr-2v was
tumed inside out. The sides tumed inwards (lr, 2v) are clean and easily
legible, whereas the sides tumed outwards (lv, 2r) are darkened and
wom over the area which formed the outside cover of AM 142 4to.6 The
sections of lv and 2r which were folded over the wooden boards to
which the leaves were sewn when the book was bound, and which were
therefore protected inside the cover of AM 142 4to, are of a much
lighter colour, easily legible, and generally free from damage, save in
areas where the outer margin has been trimmed. The top right comer of
lr, top left of lv, is now tom. There are 3 holes in the right margin of
2rb, left margin of 2va. On the third leaf (the cover of AM 145 8vo),
most of the left margin of 3ra, right margin of 3vb, has been trimmed
away. A frayed edge of this leaf (3ra,9-12) has been repaired, but the
first letter of criminibus at 3ra, 11 has been lost (although the letter was
still clearly visible when the leaf was photographed in 1981). Two rect-
angular holes have been cut for binding cords in the right margin of 3rb,
left margin of 3va, so that some letters in the text (the top of the s in
ignis at 3rb,7, and de in delectabilis at 3rb,21) are now lost. The same
holes on 3va are cut in otherwise illegible sections of text. Eight rows of
vertical prick holes, where the leaf was stitched to the wooden boards
used for covers, are visible through lines 16-19 of each side of the leaf.
3r, which formed the inside cover of AM 145 8vo, is otherwise free
from damage and easily legible. Much of 3v, which formed the outer
cover, is so wom that lines 7-15 and 20-22 of 3va are now completely
illegible. The same lines of 3vb have also been wom away, save for the
last centimeter of the full length of column b, which was folded under
when the book was bound, and is as a result undamaged and easy to
read.
No connection has been shown between the two manuscripts which
these fragments once covered. AM 145 8vo is a collection of rimur in
6 This is not noted in the general description in MGA 1987, 101, where the proper se-
quence of readings in the text has gone unnoticed and sides lr-v and 2r-v are mistakenly
described in reverse order as 2r-v and lr-v respectively.