Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.06.1997, Page 151
VII. THE F-TEXT
1. Primary manuscript
ÍB 152, 8vo
ÍB 152 8vo is a small collection of sagas, Ans saga bogsveigis, Mírmanns
saga, Ketils saga hængs and Gríms saga loðinkinna, followed on the last
three used pages by a poem. The final page, f. 62v, was left blank. There are
eight gatherings, all of which contained eight leaves originally. But one leaf
has been lost at the beginning, as Ans saga starts with a gathering consisting
of three bifolia and a single leaf (f. 7); it may have been blank, or may have
been a title-page for the manuscript. Further, one leaf has been cut out in Mír-
manns saga after f. 18, leaving a stub (see below).
The manuscript has been paginated in pencil on the rectos, at or near the
bottom. ‘13+’ has been written in pencil nearthe ‘l’onf. lr, butthe meaning
is not apparent. Ff. 20, 40, 60 and 62 have been numbered in pencil at the top.
A name and date have been added at the bottom of f. lr, but only ‘Jonss.
1859’ is now legible.
Some repairs have been needed. Ff. 1-7, 47 and 54-62 have had a trans-
parent film stuck on, covering one side completely, and other folios have
been strengthened with strips. A little text had been lost at the edges here and
there, especially at the end, but Mírmanns saga is not affected by this
(though letters have occasionally been rubbed off in Mírmanns saga on in-
tact pages).
The scribe has given his name at the end of Ans saga on p. 33, ‘Skrifud aa
Rima | af | Halldöri Jöns Syni | Anno | 1817’, and at the end of Ketils saga on
p. 111, ‘Halldor Jons Son | med Eiginn h[e]nd[i]’. The latter is found again on
p. 14, in a space between chapters. His initials are written in the decorative
initial at the beginning of a chapter on nine occasions, five of them in Mír-
manns saga. ‘Halldo[r] Jons Son aa Rima a þessa | [Bok]’ occurs on p. 111,
and an incomplete note in the damaged margin on the same page by an
unknown borrower shows that he lent the book at some time.
‘Halldor’ and ‘Haldór Jonsson’ have been added on p. 33, and ‘Halldor
Jons | Son’ among many other scribbles on p. 124. The name ‘Stephan’ is
found on p. 112, and ‘Holmfrijdur’ on p. 124.
Halldór Jónsson of Rimi (in Mjóafjarðarhreppur, Suður-Múlasýsla) is
known as the writer of parts of other manuscripts, ÍB 149 and 623 8vo, writ-
ten in 1820 and 1827 respectively, and the author of verses in Lbs 2195 8vo
(Skrá, III 36 and 136, and II 423-4). At the census on the lst Sunday of Ad-
vent 1816, he was seventeen years of age (Manntal á Islandi 1816, 1947-74,
61).