Fols. Landslag, beginning acephalously at §BB 4. Part of BB 16 and 17 missing, KpB
index, 1 and 2 missing, ThgB 23–26 and a part of 27 missing, index to HögB. and 1, 2
and first rows of 3 are missing, DrVl. 1–5 and a part of 6, from SVl. 17 to SVth. 2
missing. Ed.
Tingamala balker. (Index, 1–37) Huen laghman scal wälias ...
Högmool balker [=
Edzöris balker]. (Index, 1–45) Först än nokor gör heem gango ...
Drapmol [medh vilia] balker. (Index 1–42) Komber skilnader
Manna mellan ... Sormol [medh vilia]. (Index, 1–18)
Hwen man scal annan til sara ... Explicit legisterium improvisale(?) (followed by a few later additions). Tywfue balken (index, 1–38) Nw gör tiuff ...
ffinitur legisterium patrie Per andream
nicolaj poyz(?) anno domini mcdlxviij o etc.
Fol.
Här byrias gardz retther ärligs höffdingn herra Magnussa konungs
med gudz nadh Swerigis ... (index) Um man slaar annan ...
Explicit Gardz ræth.
Fols.
Deo gracias.
Fols.
Kirkio balk. (Index, 1–17) Um kirkio bygningh ...
Explicit
legisterium ecclesiasticum.
Fols.
Fols. 130r–131v: Later additions
The manuscript is defective at the beginning (three quires missing); folia missing after fols. 9, 31, 43, 61, 66, 84, 98, 119. Fol. 118’s counter-leaf is the back pastedown. Between them, two quires have been placed. A singleton containing the month of May must be missing between fols. 122 and 123 of the calendar.
There are several watermarks. The one in the main portion
features a
The manuscript is in decent condition. There are several folia missing; there is a considerable amount dirt on the folia; some leaves have holes or have been torn; there is fraying along the edges; and in places the text has become smudged.
One cursive main hand writing the Landslag, Gårdsrätt and Kyrkobalk. He identifies
himself as
From fol. 120 various later hands making additions. Later hands have also added notes in the margins against the law texts.
Simple red lombard initials with flourishing in green (usually three-lines high,
four at the beginning of chapters). Headings in the upper margin and article numbers
in the outer margin in red until fol.
Worn, dark brown calf over wooden boards. The boards on both covers have split vertically down the middle and are held together by the leather of the covers and the parchment pastedowns. One hook-clasp with the catch on the edge of the front cover. The clasp is attached to a piece of leather and shows a few simple incised decorations.
Front and back pastedowns are leaves from a
The manuscript contains a copy of
The manuscript may have been
written originally in
The manuscript was purchased for o jn crastino(?) petri et
pale(!)’ ‘Si quis alienauerit hunc librum a territorio prefato alienauerit ipse a
regno dei’ (fol.
Fol. Argent (uncoloured), a tree eradicated sprouting out
two branches with a single leaf proper bordure vert embattled chief vert and
argent. Crest: On a helmet with mantling argent and vert
two arms bowed counter embowed vambraced argent holding pine branches
proper.
Later on the manuscript came into the collections of the minister and book
collector,