Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1960, Síða 11

INTRODUCTION
The Manuscripts of Gibbons saga.
Gibbons saga is preserved in nineteen manuscripts:
in the Arnamagnean Collection, Copenhagen, MSS
AM. 335, 4°, AM. 529, 4°, AM. 567, 4°, XVI, AM.
585c, 4° and AM. 119a, 8°: in the Royal Library,
Copenhagen, MSS Ny kgl. sml. 1749, 4° and Kall
614, 4°: in the Royal Library, Stockholm, MSS Perg.
fol. 7, Papp. fol. 47, Papp. 4° 6 and Papp. 8° 10: in
the National Library, Reykjavík, MSS Lbs. 1305, 4°,
Lbs. 1509, 4°, Lbs. 2081, 8°, Lbs. 2315, 8°, JS. 11,
8°, ÍB. 228, 4°, ÍB. 185, 8° and ÍBR. 46, 8°. These
manuscripts range in date from the end of the four-
teenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.1
The earliest, AM. 335, 4° and the fragment AM.
567, 4°, XVI, are from c. 1400, Perg. fol. 7 is from
the later fifteenth century, AM. 529, 4° from the six-
teenth, AM. 585c, 4°, AM. 119a, 8°, Papp. fol. 47,
Papp. 4° 6 and Papp. 8° 10 from the seventeenth.
The rest are later, the most recent manuscript being
Lbs. 2081, 8°, dated 1912. This edition is little con-
cerned with the later manuscripts. It attempts only
to establish an early text for the saga and to indicate
the early variant readings. Consequently it deals in
detail with only the four earliest manuscripts, and
the two seventeenth century texts, AM. 585c, 40 and
AM. 119a, 8°, which oífer special problems.
1 All manuscript dates are taken from the catalogues of the
collections.