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THE S RECENSION
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cluding supplied initials) and new mistakes found in 619. Like 619 the
copy is generally accurate. Novel errors and spellings in 1770 include
e.g. (393 readings first): 2/16 biskup] -r ; 10/3 bp] bps; 12/15 komaz]
koma; 14/6 þ (= þav)] þm; 20/21 xv.] xvj.; 21/13 tekit] tekið; 22/11
meininu] mæininu. On the other hand, it is clear that at some stage,
and presumably only briefly, Oddur also referred to a text other than
393, possibly to S2 itself. His correction of minor mistakes by Eyjólfur
could result in independent restoration of the S2 reading, as in 33/15
‘avreigha’ for Eyjólf’s ‘avreiha’, 35/9 ‘loptinv’ for Eyjólf’s ‘lopinv’,
43/14 ‘til aara’ for Eyjólf’s ‘til at aara’, but he would need guidance to
improve 44/31 ‘anaRa mana’ to ‘anaRa heilagra mafia’ and 45/1 ‘at
holv’ to ‘at staðnv at holv’, and thus furnish correct S2 readings.
BL Add. 5313.
This quarto manuscript contains modern flyleaves front and back and
80 fols., with a title on fol. lr, and the text, beginning fol. 2r, on 155
numbered pages; fols. 79v and 80 are blank. The title, ‘Sagann af Ioni
Helga Augmunds Syne fyrsta Hola Biskupi’, is not in the hand of the
text, and below it a slip is pasted, written in another hand again: ‘Hæc
Iohannis Holensium Episcopi vulgo Sti. Vita, ex Bibliotheca Lange-
bechiana exscripta est ad Codicem Membran: Legati Magnæani. per’
(uncompleted thus). The text that follows is in the hand of Oddur Jóns-
son; see above on Kall 619 and Thott 1770 and below on Thott 1748.
5313 was one of a group of manuscripts (BL Add. 5311-5318) bought
from Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin (1752-1829; ÍÆ II, 107), as recorded
in the supplement (c. 1782-96) to the handwritten catalogue of S.
Ayscough in BL Add. 5015, dated 1781, fol. 131v; cf. The British Lib-
rary, Catalogue of Additions ... 1756-1782, 302. It had presumably
come on the market when Langebek’s library was auctioned in 1777.
Like 619, but unlike 1770, Jóns saga in 5313 is complete and, in
spite of the statement on the slip, represents another copy of AM 393
4to. It is independent of the copies by Oddur in 619 and 1770, since it
does not share their distinctive readings, nor are distinctive errors of
5313 found in them. The latter include (393 readings first): 2/54
hlyða] heyra; 8/36 þeim] haunum; 8/62 (see t.n.) prestinum]
prestunum; 8/96 þo] + at; 16/8 sem] er; 17/9 Amnalldus] Arnalldr;
28/14 þera (for S2 þvera)] þeira; 41/6 þvi] + ; 63/37 mÍNtizt] minnizt.