Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.1997, Síða 84
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tains five sagas, including Mírmanns saga. A typewritten description by Einar
G. Pétursson dating from 1975 and a microfilm are kept at Stofnun Arna
Magnússonar.
The manuscript is written in one hand throughout, but it is of composite
origin, the fourth and fifth separate items having been added to the first three.
The manuscript is bound, and an unconnected saga, on larger paper, and writ-
ten by two other scribes, is kept inside the back cover.
The first part of the manuscript proper begins with Mírmanns saga and
Adonias saga. The scribe did not paginate them, but there is a later pencil pa-
gination, boldly written, in the upper left comer, respectively 1-60 and 61-192
for these sagas. The gatherings are uniformly of four leaves; the first saga be-
gins on the first page of the first gathering, and the second begins in the
middle of a gathering and ends on the last page of the last.
Hektors saga follows, precisely filling eleven gatherings of four leaves. It
was later paginated 193-280.
The scribe wrote a title-page for these three works on a single leaf which is
still in place before the first gathering. It reads:
Fornmanna sögr
af. Mírmant jalli í Sikiley ok Setselju hinni vænu.
- Addoníus konúngi Marsilíus syni.
- Hektor ok köppum hans.
[Space]
Skrifaðar eftir gömlum bókum | árið 1872.
The second part of the manuscript consists of Fástus saga og Ermenu. It fills
two gatherings, the first of six leaves and the second of four. There is an ori-
ginal pagination; the first page is unnumbered, the rest 146-64, and this shows
that this saga was originally part of a different assemblage. The first and last
pages are dirty from handling. The later pencil pagination (which does not
continue beyond this saga) is 281-300.
The third part consists of an incomplete Saga afHuld Tröllkonu. It fdls se-
ven gatherings of four leaves, and ends in mid-sentence at the bottom of the
last page. It has its own original pagination; the first page is unnumbered, the
rest 290-344. The first and last pages are dirty from handling. The last page
has also lost parts of letters due to trimming.
The titles of the last two items have been added in blue ink in the space on
the title-page, perhaps by someone other than the scribe.
Many outer bifolia have parted at the spine. Repairs made some time ago,
when the manuscript was bound, have not lasted, and many leaves are loose
in the manuscript.