(LCI)
Top left corner: National Library book label.
(f. SL1r)
Paper note glued to page, in ink by a modern hand: list of saints.
(f. SL1v)
Top of page, in ink by a modern hand: ‘sign. A. 56 i Antiqvitets Arkivet.’.
Textblock
(f. 1r)
The enitre page is covered in pen-trials by the scribe. For more on the additions here and on 53v, see Maliniemi (1957), p. 20.
(f. 1v)
Upper part of page, in bronw ink by a medieval hand: a fragmented prayer; middle of page, in ink by an early modern hand: ‘Lectiones historia de sanctis Regni Sueciae Martyribus et patronis olim in Ecclesiis Suecanis usitate’.
(ff. 2r–53r)
Additions in the margins by one or serveral contemporary hands, e.g. on (f. 7v) or (f. 19r).
(f. 3r)
Upper right corner, in ink by a modern hand: ‘Scr. Rer. Suec. II.’ (text indentification)
(f. 53v)
Four different texts by the same hand, the first two are written in a faded ink. Text 1 carrries the title ‘Contra pulices’; text 2 is 10 line long poem beginning: ‘O doctor moris’; text 3 is in Swedish and seems to be a recipe against ringworm (‘raefform’); text 4 has the title: ‘De decimis et oblacionibus’.
(Stub_A–Stub_B)
A few words or parts of words can be seen on the stubs. They seem to be written by the same hand as the other additions.
Decorations
Textblock
Main text in brown ink, rubrics in red (green on (ff. 46r–47v)), capitals touched in red.
(f. 2r): Opening plain initial G over 3 lines in red.
(ff. 2r–53r): plain initials over 2 lines in red. On (ff. 45v–49r) the initals are written in green. (f. 19v): flourish in red added to the last initial on the page.
(f. 34v): initial outlined in black in, filled with red and black.
(ff. 44v–45r): cadel intial I over 4-6 lines in black, filled in with red.
Binding
Modern binding. Leather and marbled paper over cardboard.
Finland, Turku, 15th century, last quarter, 16th century, first quarter. Written and owned by Nils Jakobsson Byrkop. His name is found on f. 22v: ‘Nicolaus est pres huius libri’; f. 37r: ‘Nicolaus Iacobi Byrkop est pres huius Codicis’; f. 46r: ‘Qui me scribebat nicolaus nomen habebat’. For more on Nils, see Maliniemi (1957), p. 21.
Provenance
Early provenance unknown.
In the 18th century the manuscript belonged to the Antiquities Archive. There, it was listed in the invetories as: ‘no. 151, Lectiones historicae de sanctis Sveciae et patronis. Ms papper’, (U 90:1, f. 13r);
‘no. 24 Lectiones historicae de sanctis Regni Sueciae Martyribus et patronis olim in eclesiis Suecanis usitate’, (U 90:2); the same title is found on f. 1v; ‘no. 24’, (U 90:4, p. 79); ‘Andelige böcker på papper skrifne in Quarto O 24’, (U 91:1); O 24 (U 91:2:1); ‘A 56’, (U 93).
