Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 988 8vo

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number IcelandicVersion5
Location Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn
Siglum/Shelfmark Lbs 988 8 vo
Page/Folio range 32v-88v
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative Pontanus saga og Diocletianus
Incipit or textual title Her Skrifast Sagann af keim Siø Meisturumm og Keisara sinenum Diόcletianus.
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 a. 2.
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
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 handrit: https://handrit.is/manuscript/view/is/Lbs08-0988
Modern Editions
Note

The text is very similar to Reykjavík The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies AM 600 d 4to but Seelow argues that it is likely not copied from AM 600 d 4to (see Seelow 1989: 205).

Authorship and Production
Scribe Bjarni Jónsson á Streiti
Author
Place of Manuscript Production Iceland
Date of Manuscript Production 1830 - 1840
Source of Date of Manuscript Production Seelow (1989)
Physical Description
Material
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 158
Height 162
Width 100
Script style/form
Prose or verse Prose
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript
  1. 1r-8r: Lais þáttur kóngssonar
  2. 8r-21r: Hrólfs þáttur skuggafífls
  3. 21r-32v: Lais þáttur jarls
  4. 32v-88v: Pontanus saga og Diocletianus
  5. 89r-104v: Ambrósíus saga og Rósamundu
  6. 105r-158v: Amoratis saga konungs í Phrygia
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue handrit: https://handrit.is/manuscript/view/is/Lbs08-0988
Modern Research Literature Seelow (1989)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript