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Jakobsson on the verso of the title-page. He says that the volume was
given him in 1759 by his father, ‘Jacob Erichsson á Budum i' Snæfells
Syslu’, along with a copy of Sturlunga saga in quarto written by
Magnús Þorvaldsson and revised by Jakob. The latter manuscript he
had sold to vice-lögmaöur Eggert Olafsson in Copenhagen in 1762.
The name ‘Jon Jacopsson’ appears on the blank verso of the leaf on
which Droplaugarsona saga ends. At the bottom of the title-page is
written: ‘ad nýu Innbundinn af Hallgrimi Magnussyni á Grytu 1786’.
Chronological lists relating to Vatnsdœla, Laxdœla and Bjarnar saga
are on pages numbered 389-90, in the hand of Jón Espólín, son of Jón
Jakobsson, and on a loose leaf at the front of the volume is written
‘Eigandi er H Espólín’, i.e. sr. Hákon Espólín, son of Jón Espólín. On
the members of this well-known family succession: Jakob Eiríksson
(1708-67), Jón Jakobsson sýslumaður (1738-1808), Jón Jónsson
Espólín sýslumaður (1769-1836), sr. Hákon Jónsson Espólín (1801-
85), see ÍÆ III, 7-8, 161-62, 106-07, II, 231-32. Magnús Þorvaldsson
acted as tutor to the sons of Jakob Eiríksson at Búðir c. 1745-46 (ÍÆ
III, 466); his copy of Sturlunga saga does not seem to have survived. I
have no information about Hallgrímur the binder; Grýta is just across
Eyjafjarðará from Espihóll, where Jón Jakobsson lived from 1769.
The name ‘Gisle Sigu[rdsson]’ appears on the page numbered 54 of
Vatnsdœla saga, and Wiktorsson, 54, notes that the names ‘Gud-
mundur’ and ‘Jon Arne’ are found at the end of Porleifs þáttr, on the
last page of the volume; they are not informative. 1442 came to
Landsbókasafn in 1906, apparently in exchange for books, from Jón
Jakobsson (Jacobson), then assistant in the Library, subsequently
landsbókavörður 1908-24 (Landsbókasafn íslands 1818-1918, 198;
Árni Pálsson in Skírnir 101, 153-60).
Hallgrímur á Grýtu or a predecessor did not make a good job of col-
lating ‘Saga Iöns Hölabiskups’ in 1442. According to Hdraskrá it is on
fols. 265-307, but it is paginated in the bottom margins of recto pages
and to find one’s way about the text it is easier to follow this number-
ing. It breaks down towards the end because the numbering jumps
from 267(-68) to 271 (-72) and from there to 279(-80). The saga begins
as it should on pp. 215-20, but thereafter is to be read in this order: pp.
227-28, 221-26, 231-36, 229-30, 237-68, (269-70 jumped), 271-72,
(273-78 jumped), 279-86, 288-87 (i.e. a leaf inserted with verso as
recto), 289-300. As noted, pp. 219-20 are in a different hand on differ-