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INTRODUCTION
AM 234 fol. (S2).
I. The present contents.
1. Fols. 1-I9vb23. Antonius saga, defective. Comparison with the
Latin (PL 73, 127 ff.) suggests two leaves are missing at the beginning
(not one as Unger reckoned, Hms. I, ix). The text is printed Hms. I,
55-121.
2. Fols. 19vb24-28vbl. Páls saga postola, defective, missing a leaf
between fols. 26 and 27. Text from 234 is printed Post., 236-79 (with
the lacuna 267/13-271/18 supplied from AM 84 8vo).
3. Fol. 28vb2-25. Miracle associated with the birth of the Virgin
Mary. Printed Maríu saga, 1022-23.
4. Fols. 28vb28-55vb30; 28vb25 (end)-27 are left blank for a title.
Maríu saga. The text 28vb28-39vb29 is printed Maríu saga, 339/14-
401/8. The prologue to the miracles, 39vb30-40ral3, is used in the
variant apparatus in Maríu saga, 63-64/1, and its truncated conclusion,
þott þat beri fra avllvm er ver heyrvm lof gvðs moðvr Marie er
avllvm helgvm monnvm er helgari ok dyrðligri ok haleitari ok
miskvnnsamari isinvm kraptti ok milldi,
is found larded with matter from other texts in Maríu saga, 65, n. 1 (cf.
Maríu saga, 64/1-65/2, 402/3-26). The text of the miracles on 40ral4-
54v is used in the variant apparatus in Maríu saga, 65/6-152. A further
five miracles, 55ral-vb30, are printed in Maríu saga, 153-157/20.
5. Fols. 55vb32-67ral6; 55vb30-31 are left blank for a title. Jóns
saga ens helga. Printed in Bps. I, 151-202; reprinted from there in
Bysk. II, 81-156 (with invented chapter-titles) and parts of it else-
where; printed here as S2 on pp. 3-54 (partly as variants to S' on pp.
34-44,51-54).
6. Fols. 67ral9-73rb25; 67ral6-18 are left blank for a title. August-
inus saga. It is defective because the top of fol. 72 has been sheared,
leaving only 18 lines of text in the inner columns, 19 in the outer.
There is a copy of 67ral9-71v in AM 648 4to, made forÁmi Magnús-
son by Eyjólfur Bjömsson (see p. 98*). The same extent is printed as
A in Hms. I, 122-142/15. Fol. 72, then in AM 627 4to (cf. Hms. I, ix;
AMKat. II, 42), was printed as a in Hms. I, 143/4-20, 144/14-145/1,