Uppsala, University Library, E 32. Historical texts

The manuscript is a composite of different booklets written around the end of saec. XVI. The texts are by different hands and new texts regularly begin in new quires. There are also notable differences in the paper used for different sections. However, the letters (fols. 360–377) share one quire, although they are written by two different hands.

The manuscript is in good condition. There is fraying along the edges and some small dirt and moisture damage.

One column (in some sections with bounding lines ruled with a hardpoint) with a varying number of lines.

Several different cursive hands of

saec. XVI or XVII

. Fols. 1–277 feature either one main hand producing a rather inexpert and uneven script or two main hands writing in stints of various lenght.

The other texts are each usually written by one hand. Compilation of

Johannes Magni

’s work, written in humanistic cursive, probably by

Marcus Henrici Helsingus

, the rector of the school in

Turku

from

1595

Simple pen-drawn majuscules at the beginnings of chapters. Apart from this, no decoration.

Cardboard with simple white leather covers, possibly renewed. Shelf-mark ‘E 32’ and a title-word appear on the spine. Pastedowns of paper.

The manuscript contains several historical texts written during the

end of saec. XVI or at the beginning of saec. XVII

. They were written mostly as independent texts by several different hands. The latest texts contain reference to the year

1600

. Many of the historical texts end in the 1580s or 1590s, which provides a

terminus ante quem non

for those parts of the manuscript.

Some of the texts are related to the

diocese of Turku

: the excerpt from

Johannes Magni

’s chronicle contains material specially pertaining to Finland, and was possibly written by

Marcus Henrici Helsingius

who served as the rector of the school in

Turku

from 1595; also included is a letter by the Finn

Johannes Jussoila

and a pamphlet related to the abolition of certain church ceremonies. Heininen suggests the compilation may originate from the cathedral chapter in

Turku

The binding has been renewed but it seems likely that the compilation of the booklets into one manuscript took place at the time of writing.

On the inner front cover: a struck-through name ‘Johan Gartz(?)’; possibly identical with the

Johann Gartz

(

Johannes Matthiae Gartzius

) (d. 1681) who enrolled in the Åbo akademi in 1644, and held offices in the

Turku

Court of Appeals from 1653 to 1680.

In the lower margin of the first flyleaf a faded note referring to ‘--- Svederi’ in April

1706

has been made. This possibly refers to

Matthias Sweder

(

Matthias Svederius

) who was the professor of law in Turku from 1686, left Finland in 1713, and from whose collection

Germund Carl Cederhielm

(1717–1789) acquired some of his books (see

Carlander 2, 493

On the inner front cover a pasted coat of arms belonging to Germund Carl Cederhielm, who presided over the Turku Court of Appeals in 1780–1788. The Cederhielm collections were bequeathed by his son,

Germund Ludwig Cederhielm

, to the

Uppsala University Library

1841

University Library’s shelf-mark ‘E 32’ found on the spine and inner front cover. The library’s stamp is found on the inner back cover.

C. M. Carlander,

Svenska bibliotek och ex-libris, 1–4

, Stockholm 1904.

Simo Heininen,

Suomalaisen historiankirjoituksen synty. Tutkimus Paavali Juustenin piispainkronikasta

, Helsinki 1989.

G. E. Klemming,

Svenska medeltidens rim-krönikor, 1

, Stockholm 1865.

K. G. Leinberg, ”Om finske studerande i jesuitcollegier”,

Historiallinen aikakauskirja 11

(1891).

Jöran Sahlgren (ed.),

Olavus Petri. En Swensk Cröneka

, Uppsala 1917.

Gunnar T. Westin,

Historieskrivaren Olaus Petri. Svenska krönikans källor och krönikeförfattarens metod

, Lund 1946.

Cataloguer

Ville Walta

Finnish Literature Society (SKS)

Codices Fennici

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