Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.1997, Síða 119
CXVII
Mírmanns saga begins on the third leaf of a gathering, and ends on the second
of another.
The title of the saga is ‘Sagan af | Mirmann Riddara’, in which the second
line is written large, with outline letters. There are twenty-seven chapter divi-
sions, numbered ‘I kap.’ etc., with roman numbers; the text follows immedi-
ately on the same line, a practice which can make the chapter division hard to
find. There is a running title across two pages, ‘Mirmann riddari’, once ‘jarls-
son’. All this is MJ’s usual style.
In EÞ (the source of these manuscripts) there are twenty-six chapter divi-
sions, but they are numbered I-XXV and XXVII, repeating an error in EK. In
1506 and 1494 there are twenty-seven chapter divisions, reproducing EÞ’s
but with the insertion of a new one at E 2660 to provide ch. XXVI.
Lbs 1506, 4to
Lbs 1506 4to is the sixteenth volume in the set to which it belongs, and ac-
cording to the title page the contents were ‘Skrifaðar eptir gömlum bókum
annó | M.D.C.C.C.X.C.I.I.I.’, i.e. in 1893.
The title page is followed by a list of contents on the next leaf. These leaves
are the first two of a gathering of eight, and the first saga begins on the third
leaf. There are seven sagas, written across gathering boundaries. The title
page and the list of contents, and their blank versos are not numbered but are
allowed for in the pagination, <l>-800. Although they are an integral part of
the first gathering, they were not necessarily written first; they could have
been left blank until the copying was finished.
The sagas are the same as in 1494, but in a different order (which can be
seen in Skrá, I 538).
Mírmanns saga is on pp. 309-404. The title is ‘Saga af | Mírmann riddara’,
with use of both red and black ink. The first word of the text is also, excep-
tionally, written in red. There are twenty-seven chapters (as in 1494, above),
numbered ‘I kap.’ etc., and there is a running title ‘Mírmann riddari’, once
‘Mírmant’.
BKA.I
BK A:I is said on the title page to be the second volume in the set to which it
belongs, and its contents are said to have been ‘Skrifaðar árið nítján | hundruð
ok ellefu’. A list of contents has been written in pencil later on the flyleaf.
There is a preface with a paragraph about each saga in turn. Its six pages
have been paginated, remarkably, as I, II, III, VI, VIII, VIII. The sagas then
follow, with pagination 9-800. The first four leaves of the first saga are con-
jugate with the title page and preface, making a gathering of eight leaves, as
normal. The sagas are then written across gathering boundaries, with one ex-