Inner front cover: A poem on the fall of virtues, in
‘Iustitia är slaghen dödh, Charitas ligger i sin största nöd ... Furtum strenger sig in medh stoort stååt, Veritas clagar sig medh underlig lååt.’
Fol.
Anno domini. 840 Sanctus Ansgarius predicavit in Swecia ...
Fols.
Anno domini. 1. 1151. Bleff sancte Henrich slaghen udi Kiula
...
Fol.
Index. Åbo stadh affbrentt. Först.
Genom Rydzerne 4, 1. Genom wådhaeeldh
7, 1 ... 43, 10.
(Fols.
One main hand writing a high quality cursive of 2
The years are marked in red, the title ‘Anno domini’ and numbers of the notes are in blue. Apart from this there is no decoration.
Bound in limp parchment covers. The back cover has been so cut to produce a tag that was inserted for closure into a slit cut in the front cover.
The manuscript consists of a very small quire bound in parchment. The size
suggests it was a personal notebook, albeit one written with considerable care and
skill. The notes on fols. 1–12 have been separately numbered in blue and are
referred to in the index by both folia number (in red) and this marking number (in
blue). The first leaf containing unnumbered annalistic notes in Latin is not
included in the index. These Latin notes were probably added later on, although they
are written by the same hand as the rest of the text. The final note on fol.
A possible
tempus post quem is provided by the last annal, for
November
More interest is shown towards the nobility than to church affairs, perhaps
suggesting that the owner was a layman. This is also suggested by the fact that this
manuscript may have served as a source for
There is no information for how the manuscript came to the