Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 896 4to

Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

IcelandicVersion11

Location

Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn

Siglum / Shelfmark

Lbs 896 4to

Page / Folio range

13r-45v

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

Pontanus saga og Diocletianus

Incipit or textual title

„Forðum daga var einn keisari í Róm sem hét Ponthoianus vís og forstandugur ...“

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 d. 1.

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/Lbs04-0896

Note

dated 1757 and signed by the scribe who copies the translation from an older (unknown) manuscript (see Seelow 1989, p. 207)

Authorship & Production

Scribe

Þorkell Jónsson

Date of Production

1756 - 1777

Source of Date of Production

Seelow (1989)

Physical Description

Material

Paper

Total pages / folios

iii + 322 + ii

Height

200

Width

152

Prose or verse

Prose

Illustrations

No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

2r-2v: Efnisyfirlit

3r-12v: Virgilíus saga

13r-45v: Pontanus saga og Diocletianus

45v-60r: Hervarar saga og Heiðreks

60r-64r: Samtal stallsystranna Barbáru og Augauttu

64v-83v: Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar

83v-91v: Rímur af Sigurði fót og Ásmundi Húnakóngi

92r-138v: Rímur af Gretti

139r-146r: Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss

146r-154r: Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss

154r-169r: Rímur af Líbertín og Ölvi

169v-175v: Þegjandi dans

176v-180v: Rímur af Ingibjörgu kóngsdóttur

180v-185r: Rímur af Lúcíus flóttamanni

185r-189r: Ævintýri af tveim konum

189r-203v: Rímur af Ármanni

203v-224v: Úlfars saga sterka

225r-234r: Lukkunnar forsvar

234r-243v: Sannferðug undirrétting um heimulleg samtök

243v-264r: Rímur af Elenu

264r-265v: Ævintýr af Wyrga Wígtama

265v-266r: Ævintýri („Annað ævintýr“)

266r: Ævintýri („Þriðja ævintýr“)

266v-294v: Líkafróns saga og kappa hans

294v-305r: Sindbað sæfari

305r-320v: Parmes saga loðinbjarnar

320r-321v: Sendibréf

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

Handrit: https://handrit.is/manuscript/view/is/Lbs04-0896

Modern Research Literature

Seelow (1989)

Research Material

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