Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 1137 8vo

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number IcelandicVersion16
Location Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn
Siglum/Shelfmark Lbs 1137 8vo
Page/Folio range 11r-57r
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative Pontanus saga og Diocletianus
Incipit or textual title „Sjö meistara saga“
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 f. 3.
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) Danish 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 handrit.is: https://handrit.is/manuscript/view/is/Lbs08-1137
Modern Editions
Note
  • fragment; stops at the end of the Empress' 7th story
Authorship and Production
Scribe Guðmundar Hjartarsonar í Grjóta
Author
Place of Manuscript Production Iceland
Date of Manuscript Production 1800 - 1900
Source of Date of Manuscript Production Seelow (1989)
Physical Description
Material Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 133
Height 174
Width 105
Script style/form
Prose or verse Prose
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript Hluti (Part) I

2r-9r: Placidus saga

9r-10r: Draumur Pílatí kvinnu

Hluti II

11r-57r: Pontanus saga og Diocletianus

Hluti III

59r-72v: Ásmundar saga, Vilhjálms og Valtara

Hluti IV

75r: Hrollaugs saga og Ingibjargar

73r-85v: Vilmundar saga væna og Hrómundar blinda

85v-98v: Nitida saga

99r-109v: Drauma-Jóns saga

109v-115v: Hálfdanar saga Barkarsonar

116r-120r: Sögubrot

Hluti V

121r-133r: Úlfars saga sterka

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue Handrit: https://handrit.is/manuscript/view/is/Lbs08-1137
Modern Research Literature Seelow (1989)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript