Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, JS 251 4to

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Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

IcelandicVersion7

Location

Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn

Siglum / Shelfmark

JS 251 4to

Page / Folio range

1r-65v

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

Pontanus saga og Diocletianus

Incipit or textual title

Hér skrifast historía af þeim sjö vísu meisturum og Pontiano keisara, einnin hans syni Diocletiano …

Version (siglum)

H (Historia Septem Sapientum)

Language Group within Version

Icelandic Version H

Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version

Prose: Sjö meistara saga

Further scholarly subgroup (1)

Seelow Group A

Further scholarly subgroup (2)

Text b. 2.

Translated / adapted from (Version/Text)

Danish Version H

Source for textual relationship

Seelow (1989)

Languages

Language of text

Icelandic

Digitisation & Editions

Digitisation

handrit.is: https://handrit.is/manuscript/view/is/JS04-0251

Note

• same translation of the Danish Folkebog as Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 1541 4to; according to Seelow, instead of being directly connected to each other, they possibly have the same (now lost) source text (see Seelow 1989, p. 206)

Authorship & Production

Date of Production

1700 - 1800

Source of Date of Production

Seelow (1989)

Physical Description

Material

Paper

Total pages / folios

I + 186 + I

Height

193

Width

149

Prose or verse

Prose

Illustrations

No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

1r-65v: Pontanus saga og Dicletianus

65v-75r: Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu

75v-89v: Gunnars saga Keldugnúpsfífls

90r-104r: Reisubók séra Ólafs Egilssonar

104v: Kvæði

105r-110v: Ævintýri („Eitt ævintýr eður frásaga af fjórum kaupmönnum“)

111r-116v: Ævintýri („Eitt skemmtið ævintýr af tveimur húsfreyjum“)

117r-119r: Ævintýri („Þriðja ævintýrskvæði“)

119r-120v: Ævintýri („Fjórða ævintýrskvæði“)

121r-122v: Múks ævintýr

122v-126v: Eiríks saga víðförla

126v: Vísa

127r-146r: Maríu saga

146v-146v: Eylandsrímur

147r-168r: Stjörnuspeki og náttúrufræði

168v-178r: Landafræði

178r-178v: Landafræði, stjörnufræði og alfræði

179r-179r: Alfræði („Hvörnin vídd landa og sjávar mælist“)

179r-179v: Alfræði („Pólíhæð þeirra nafnkunnustu staða og hafna við sjóinn“)

179v-186v: Annálar

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

handrit.is: https://handrit.is/manuscript/view/is/JS04-0251

Modern Research Literature

Seelow (1989)

Research Material

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