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magister Þórður Þorláksson in Copenhagen in the year 1663 and lent it to
Torfæus, who was then collecting material for his Series dynastarunv, on
7 July the following year Absalon gave it to his brother Hans, from
whom it passed to Peder Resen in 1666.
No transcript of Cod. Res. is extant, but passages that were excerpted
in other works both before and after the manuscript left Iceland suffice to
show what its text of OlTr was like. The oldest manuscript to preserve
material from Cod. Res. is that of which AM 764 4to and AM 162m fol.
are remains. A passage about Ingólfr Arnarson and the discovery of Ice-
land was introduced into a manuscript of the Skarðsárbók redaction of
Landnámabók instead of the original opening, and from that manuscript
AM 111 fol. and AM 568 4to, nr. 22-23 are descended. Four short passa-
ges in Series dynastarum were excerpted from Cod. Res. by Torfæus in
Copenhagen, and Ámi Magnússon occasionally mentions its text and
readings. For the most part it was related to B (and was probably copied
from the same exemplar at about the same time), but the conclusion of
the text derives from a manuscript of the D class.
AM 325 VIII 2c, 2e, 2f, 2g, and 2h 4to are six leaves and scraps of leaves
that Gustav Morgenstern thought were the remains of three vellums, 2c
and 2e (C4) being supposedly from one codex, 2f and 2h (C5) from an-
other, and 2g (C3) from a third. Further study after the publication of
vols. 1-2 of this edition has revealed that all these fragments must actual-
ly be from a single codex. The latter was a direct copy of AM 54 fol. (C')
and of similar dimensions, as appears from the fact that the copyist appar-
ently imitated his exemplar page for page; the manuscript had in other
words 104 leaves measuring ca. 29 x 21 cm with two columns per page
and normally 40 lines per column. This book was hardly written earlier
than 1380 or later than about 1400. A copy was made when the original
book was newly written, and from that copy descend Bergsbók (Perg.
fol. nr 1) and AM 325 VIII 2a 4to (C6); nothing is known of the original’s
history, however, except that in the middle of the seventeenth century
Þórður Jónsson in Hítardalur had it at his disposal when it was still more
or less intact. Þórður caused its text of OlTr to be copied into Húsafells-
bók (Papp. fol. nr 22).
Perg. fol. nr 1, Bergsbók (C'), is a large and imposing vellum codex of
210 leaves measuring 32 x 24 cm. There are 27 gatherings, all of eight
leaves except gathering 15, which has lost one leaf and has only four
leaves remaining, and gathering 27, which has nine leaves. Originally the
codex had 215 leaves, of which five are lost. There are two columns per