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S U M M A R Y
The Genesis of a Composite. The Codicology of AM 239 fol.
Keywords: Codicology, medieval manuscript production, Helgafell, AM 239 fol.,
exemplar
Manuscript AM 239 fol. is central for the so-called Helgafell-manuscripts, as it
connects the group of some sixteen manuscripts and fragments to the Augustinian
house of Helgafell on Snæfellsnes in west Iceland. The manuscript’s significance
lies not only in the ownership note on fol. 1r, but also in the fact that it was used
as an exemplar for two manuscripts, AM 653 a 4to (with JS fragm. 7) and SÁM
1. The codicological structure of the manuscript is complex and was recently
described as a composite consisting of two late-fourteenth-century production
units. This article revisits the codicology of AM 239 fol; it shows there are, in