Icelandic poems, written in the 18th cent.

File

MS. Boreal 118

Held in our offsite storage facility

Comprises:

(fol. 4) 'Aar klyder', a moral poem on the six-fold division of the year, applied to man's life
(fol. 56) '... Kross Rymur ...' by Sigurd Jonsson: at end 'Ender Adams Hymna', the poem being partly about Adam
(fol. 72v) 'Spakmæla Rymur', by Jonas Thorsteinsson, A.D. 1625, philosophical maxims in verse
(fol. 80) 'Elle kvæde', by Jón Magnusson.

Dates

88 Leaves

MS. Boreal 118

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 20759

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 3/4 × 4 1/2 in.

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