(LCI)
Top left corner: National Library book label with current signum.
(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 entire page is covered in pen-trials by the scribe. For more on the additions here and on (f. 53v), see Maliniemi (1957), p. 20.
(f. 1v)
Upper part of page, in brown ink by a medieval hand: a fragmented prayer; middle of page, in ink by an early modern hand: ‘Lectiones historiae de sanctis Regni Sueciae Martyribus et patronis olim in Ecclesiis Suecanis usitatae’.
(ff. 2r–53r)
Additions in the margins by one or serveral contemporary hands, e.g. on (f. 7v) or (f. 19r). There are also some manicules, e.g. on (f. 23r), and a head in profile drawn on the initial on (f. 44v).
(f. 3r)
Upper right corner, in ink by a modern hand: ‘Scr. Rer. Suec. II.’ (text identification)
(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 hexameter poem beginning: ‘O doctor moris’; text 3 is in Old 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 initials are written in green. (f. 19v): flourish in red added to the last initial on the page; (f. 34v): initial outlined in black ink, filled with red and black;
(ff. 44v–45r): cadel initial ‘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).
