Papers, written in the 18th and 19th cent.

File

MS. Boreal 92

Held in our offsite storage facility

Made up of several separate pieces, including:

(fol. 2) Brief annals of Norway from 1262 to 1523, with a few copies of royal edicts, one (fol. 12) 'ex membrana Skalholtensi parum vetusta', in Icelandic, 18th cent.
(fol. 32) Two forms of opening and closing of a public court or assembly, perhaps in the hand of Arni Magnusson, in Icelandic, 19th cent.

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

Dates

37 Leaves

MS. Boreal 92

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 20733

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

6 5/8 × 4 1/4 in.

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