Stjórn, AM. 227 fol. A Norwegian version of the Old Testament transcribed in Iceland. With an introd. by Didrik Arup Seip.

Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
Norwegian
Published/​Created
Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1956.
Description
18 p. facsim.: 257 p. 46 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Series
Corpus codicum Islandicorum Medii Aevi ; v. 20 [More in this series]
Notes
  • Collation of original: 129 l.
  • "In the present volume the recto of the last leaf is reproduced twice, without the label and then with it."
  • Written perhaps about 1310, by command of King Håkon Magnusson of Norway for the edification of his housecarls. Besides translations of parts of the Bible and comments on them, it contains additions from other books, especially the Historia scholastica of Petrus Comestor and the Speculum historiale of Vincent of Beauvais.--cf. p. 10, 13.
Other title(s)
Bible. Old Testament. Manuscripts. Icelandic and Old Norse.
LCCN
57043132
OCLC
14261709
RCP
N - S
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