The manuscript is in good condition. There is some staining caused by
moisture and slight fraying along the edges, but no text losses occur.
One unruled column with a varying number of lines.
One main hand writing a rather careless and rapid cursive script.
No decoration.
One string-bound quire without covers.
The manuscript contains a single quire with court records, or rather, a simple
registry of fines (with offences and fines followed by a list of names) given in the
sessions presided over by
Bertil Jönsson
in
1549
in
Viipuri
Province. The writing
is done by one hand using a fast cursive. The manuscript probably once belonged to a
larger collection.
The later history of the manuscript and how it arrived in the
Swedish
National Archives
are unknown. Possibly it arrived from the
Svea court
of appeals
as did a few other fragments in the folder. Number ‘6’ written in a
near-modern hand in the upper margin of fol.