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have not been added. An exception is the initial F
added at the beginning of chapter 6 (2110), while
crude initials were later given to the first words of
chapters 1 and 2 (31, 51). Sub-paragraphs are formed
by the placing of occasional initial letters of sentences
in the left-hand margins of their columns, as, for
example, with the initials of Eptir 83, Jungfru ll1,
Nu 128.
There are no headings to either saga or individual
chapters, but a seventeenth century hand has written
Gibbons Saga Byriast hier in the top margin of fo. 49r.
C (= AM. 529, 4°) “16. árh.” A vellum manuscript,
the remains of a larger codex, now consisting of
sixty-two leaves, 17.5 X 12.5 cm., containing, be-
sides Gibbons saga, fragments of three romantic sagas.
Gibbons saga occupies fos. lv—30v line 13 (fo. lv
however beginning with a general opening paragraph),
and was presumably the íirst text of the complete
codex, for fo. lr was left blank. There are twenty-
two to twenty-four lines to the page, and the written
area measures 12.5 X 9.5 cm.
Fos. 1, 4, 17, 23 and 27 are damaged by tearing,
though in the cases of fos. 23 and 27 this does not
affect the text. Fos. 20 and 26 have holes which are
earlier than the writing of the text, which thus con-
tinues round them. A later tear runs from the hole
of fo. 20, with slight damage to the wording. Fo. 11
has a long diagonal tear, now sewn up, running in-
wards from the lower outer corner, but this too pre-
existed the writing of the text. The earlier pages of
the saga have darkened more than the later ones,
and parts of fo. lv are hard to read in normal light.
The opening between fos. 14 and 15 (at the end of
the second gathering of the manuscript) has faded
badly in places, and in addition fo. 15 is badly creased