'De mirabilibus Islandiæ', an essay on the physical features and natural history of Iceland, written in 1638, and stated to be by bp. Gisli Oddsson, written in 1638 by G. Oddsson

File

MS. Boreal 84

Held in our offsite storage facility

Pages are numbered '89'-'203': a list of the 40 chapters is on p. 202.

A probably unique MS., the autograph of the author.

Dates

118 pages

MS. Boreal 84

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 20725

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'.

See also MSS. Boreal 50-51: this volume is pp. '89'-'203' of the same collection.

On paper

7 3/4 × 6 1/2 in.

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