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paper stuck to the edges of leaves to strengthen them. Where the text is affec-
ted, it has often been supplied on the repair; this has occurred chiefly in the
latter part of the manuscript, but there is one place affecting two words in
Mírmanns saga, on p. 268. Further, whole leaves have been put into the
manuscript at several places; one of them is in Mírmanns saga, namely pp.
271-2, containing text corresponding to A 2542-2640 (end). The hand, well
known from Lbs manuscripts, is that of Páll Pálsson, 1806-77 (ÍÆ, IV 136-7).
The title of Mírmanns saga on p. 208 is ‘Af Mírmann’. The chapters are
numbered I-XX and 21, and all except the last have chapter headings (which
can be up to eleven words long). The chapter divisions occur in the same pla-
ces as in 1000 (above, p.xxix). The opening words are ‘A dægum Clemens
páva reþi einn agætur | kongr fyrir Fracklandi sem’ etc.
In the first part of the manuscript, the first three sagas have no chapter
headings, but the next three all have them. In Mírmanns saga these chapter
headings are found only in this manuscript, and may be Markús Snæbjarnar-
son’s invention. The last chapter, beginning on a substituted page and written
therefore by Páll Pálsson, has an arabic number and no chapter heading; this
may be by his choice.
The text in 634 is called A5 in this edition. It is similar to A4 (the text in
1000), but neither is a copy of the other. Variants are printed from it for com-
parison with 179 and 181 g where these provide the text (A 1189-2494), and for
comparison with 1000 where it subsequently provides the text (A 2495-2640).
ÍBR 59, 4to (= A6)
IBR 59 4to is mainly an anthology of eight sagas, but also contains a calendar
of events and some rímur, as given in the catalogue (Skrá, III 217), probably all
written in the same hand throughout. The scribe has dated most of the copying;
the dates range from November 1798 to December 1816, but the parts of the
manuscript do not stand in the order in which they were written. Mírmanns
saga, near the end of the manuscript, is dated with the words ‘Endir þessrar
(sic) Spgu d 17 februarij 1799’.
Like other saga anthologies acquired by Hið íslenzka bókmentafjelag in
Reykjavík, the manuscript has been made one of a series by the addition of a
title-page bearing the title ‘SÖGU-SAFN | XVII’, and there is a list of con-
tents on the verso, both written by Páll Pálsson.
Three other lists of sagas and other works have been written in the manu-
script, in two places that had been left blank (pp. 192 and 224 in the manu-
script’s imperfect numbering), but these lists bear no relation to the contents
of 59. The first list ends with ‘20 af Mirmann’; if it was a list of the contents
of a manuscript, that manuscript is not now traceable through this reference to
Mírmanns saga.