Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.2003, Side 47
THE S RECENSION
9*
145/22-146/5, 146/28-147/7. Fol. 73ral-rb25 is printed, again as A, in
Hms. I, 147/7-149/3.
7. The rest of fol. 73rb and fols. 73v and 74r are blank.
8. Fols. 74v-78. Vitae patrum, defective. The bottom of fol. 74 has
been sheared, leaving 36 lines in 74va, 36 lines and the top of line 37
in 74vb. The bottom of fol. 75 has been sheared, leaving 26 lines.
(This leaf was in AM 627 4to; cf. Hms. I, xxiii, II, 339 n. 1; AMKat. I,
195.) Fol. 76 is complete. The bottom of fol. 77 has been cut off, leav-
ing 22 lines. Fol. 78 is complete. The whole remaining text was used
as C in the variant apparatus in Hms. II, 335-38, 339-47, 356-65, 374-
82, 392-402; cf. Hms. I, xxiii. If the text in 234 remained generally
comparable to that of AM 225 fol. (printed as A in Hms. II, 335-488),
the complete Vitae patrum I would have filled 18 leaves. If the text of
Vitae patrum II had been included, it would have covered a further 27
leaves. (On Norwegian-Icelandic vernacular versions of Vitae patrum
see Tveitane, Den lærde stil, 13-25.)
9. Fols. 79-81. Thómas saga erkihyskups, defective. The leaves are
variously damaged and worn but with negligible loss of text. The mat-
ter is printed as G in Thomas saga (1869), 534-44, and as E in Thómas
saga (1875-83), II, 270-84. The version of the saga from which this
text is derived is not known entire and no reliable estimate of its length
can be made; cf. Foote, Saga-Book XV 4, 426-31, 445-46; Stefán Karls-
son, Proceedings, 212-43 (reprinted Stafkrókar, 135-52). It may be
noted, however, that the remains of the fullest extant texts of Thómas
saga are on 92 folios in Stock. perg. 4:o nr 17 (c. 1300) and 89 folios
in GKS 1008 fol. (c. 1400).
II. The make-up.
It will be seen from the above description that the codex must once
have contained over 100 leaves, and well over 100 if Vitae Patrum II
were included. This accords with what we learn from seventeenth-cen-
tury accounts; see p. 12*.
If we disregard the three Thómas saga folios, 79-81 (in Hand A; see
below), the remains of the codex appear to represent nine gatherings
of 8 leaves, one gathering of 4, and another one of 8: