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Michael Chesnutt
printed Holar breviary5 and the various manuscript fragments in the Ar-
namagnæan collection. These latter comprise a number of Office lec-
tionaries, antiphonals such as the well known AM 241 a II fol. contain-
ing text and chant for the rhymed office of St Porlåkr,6 and the bre-
viaries discussed in LI I 76-80, 82-93. Of the last-mentioned fragments
the first, and by far the earliest (LI I, ch. VII § 3), was used as protective
material at the back of the saga manuscript AM 152 fol. It is dated by
Lilli Gjerløw to ca 1200 (AM 152 fol. itself, though written on vellum,
is from the early sixteenth century), while the remaining four fragments
are late medieval. LI I, ch. VIII § 3, used as fly-leaves in Stockholm KB
isl. perg. 4:o nr 13, is of unknown provenance. LI I, ch. VIII § 4, simi-
larly used to bind Stockholm KB isl. papp. 4:o nr 27, is in the hånd of
the distinguished scribe Jon borlåksson (fl. ca 1470), who lived and
worked in western Iceland. Jon borlåksson was remembered in the six-
teenth century as the scribe of his era most frequently employed to pro-
duce books for the church of Skarb on SkarSsstrond in the diocese of
Skålholt, but he also wrote on commission for the Benedictine mo-
nastery of Munkajwerå in the diocese of Holar.7 The last two breviary
fragments are both known to have been located within the limits of the
Skålholt diocese at some point in their history. One of them, AM 241
b I £ fol., has been printed in extenso by Lilli Gjerløw (LI I, ch. VIII
§ 2), while the other (ibid. § 1) will be dealt with in the following pages.
5 Isak Collijn, “Två blad av det forlorade Breviarium Nidrosiense, Holar 1534,” Nordisk
tidskrift for bok- och biblioteksvåsen 1, 1914, 11-16; Lauritz Nielsen, Dansk Bibliografi
1482-1600, second edition with supplement by Erik Dal, Copenhagen 1996,1 14-15, no.
26. This fragment, recovered from the binding of Stockholm KB isl. papp. 4:o nr 6, con-
tains the Proprium Officii de Sanctis for the second and third weeks of February.
6 Robert Abraham Ottosson (ed.), Sancti Thorlaci episcopi ojficia rhythmica et proprium
missae in AM 241 a folio (Bibliotheca Amamagnæana Supplementum 3), Copenhagen
1959. The current shelf-mark postdates the separation of this antiphonal from a fragment
of the so-called “Psalter I” in connection with the division of the Amamagnæan collection
between Denmark and Iceland. - See further AN 255-61 and LI I 92, n. 8.
7 See inter alia Jon Helgason in: Erik Eggen, The Sequences of the Archbishopric of
Nidaros (Bibliotheca Amamagnæana 21-22), Copenhagen 1968, I xlv-xlvii; 6lafur
Halldorsson, “Jonar tveir Lorlakssynir,” in: Afmælisrit til dr. phil. Steingrtms J.
Porsteinssonar professors 2. juli 1971, Reykjavik 1971, 128-44; Stefan Karlsson, “Sex
skriffingur,” in: Opuscula VII (Bibliotheca Amamagnæana 34), Copenhagen 1979, 36-
43; Lilli Gjerløw LI I ch. V, here 56,58-61.