An explanation of obsolete words occurring in Icelandic laws and commentary on the second chapter (of capital crime, etc.) of the Icelandic law tract called Mann-helgi, written perhaps in the 17th cent.

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MS. Boreal 22

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Comprises:

(fol. 2) an explanation of obsolete words occurring in Icelandic laws, by Biorn Jónsson of Skardsa
(fol. 24) a commentary on the second chapter (of capital crime, etc.) of the Icelandic law tract called Mann-helgi, by Haldor Thorbergsson.

A MS. which had not in 1832 been printed.

Dates

35 Leaves

MS. Boreal 22

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. IV, no 20663

A catalogue by Magnusen, dated 1828, is in the Library, and was printed in 1832 with the title 'Catalogus...codicum cliii manuscriptorum Borealium præcipuæ Islandicæ originis, ...autcore... Finno Magnæo, Islando'.

On paper

8 1/8 × 6 1/2 in.

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