Icelandic verse, written in the 18th cent.

File

MS. Boreal 104

Held in our offsite storage facility

Comprises:

(fol. 1) Cato's Disticha, translated into Icelandic verse by Jonas Biarnason
(fol. 19) The Sayings of the Seven Wise Men of Greece, similarly translated
(fol. 25v) Johannes Sulpicius's treatise de moribus servandis, similarly translated.

A MS. which had not in 1832 been printed.

Dates

30 Leaves

MS. Boreal 104

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 20745

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

7 1/4 × 4 1/2 in.

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