Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 4485 8vo

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number IcelandicVersion50
Location Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn
Siglum/Shelfmark Lbs 4485 8vo
Page/Folio range
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative Vinaspegill
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum) H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
Language Group within Version Icelandic Version H
Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version Verse: Sjö meistara saga
Further scholarly subgroup (1) Seelow Group D
Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) Danish Version H, Icelandic Version H
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition Seelow (1989)
Languages
Language of text Icelandic
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text
Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions
Note
  • it is unclear whether Guðmundur Bergþórsson actually composed the poem (see Seelow 1989: 216-217)
Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author Guðmundur Bergþórsson
Place of Manuscript Production Iceland
Date of Manuscript Production 1700 - 1899
Source of Date of Manuscript Production Handrit: https://handrit.is/manuscript/view/is/Lbs08-4485#
Physical Description
Material Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 44
Height
Width
Script style/form
Prose or verse Verse
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript
  1. Vinaspegill
  2. Háttalykill Lofts ríka
  3. Fáeinar óhræsis bögur
  4. Kaupmannabragur
  5. Ýmis kvæði
  6. Fæðingarvottorð Jórunnar Pálsdóttur
  7. Vitnisburðarbréf vinnukonunnar Önnu Einarsdóttur
  8. Sendibréf frá B. E. Sandholt til Torfa Einarssyni skrifað 1871
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue Handrit: https://handrit.is/manuscript/view/is/Lbs08-4485#
Modern Research Literature Seelow (1989)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript