Stockholm, National Library, A 934. Registry of confiscated charters from the Monastery of Naantali Cataloguer Ville Walta Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Codices Fennici Creative Commons BY 4.0 Stockholm National Library A 934 >c. 1554, Stockholm(?) Registry of confiscated charters from the Monastery of Naantali

Fols. 1–34: Registry of charters from the archive of the Birgittine monastery at Naantali. Edited in Arwidsson 1853, 1–42. The arrangement of Arwidsson’s edition is chronological, while the manuscript, at least partly, follows instead the organization of the actual archive (Walta 2012, 301–302). Arwidsson’s edition also ignores all archival information marked in the margins, such as the shelf-marks of the charters.

[1r] --- [according to a pencilled note the missing section read: Föteckning på någher breff som Nådhendals] closter vdi finlandt tillydt haffua. (in the margin ‘Helgåå’) först bengt Åkessons sampt sine hustroes ... [4v] ... Åboo mynt Datum anno 1448. nu the breff her emillan dateret äre, the finnas på ett annat Register. [5r] (margin ‘Fru Lucia’) Samme breff the ... Datum anno 1490 ... [7v] ... till same Closter. Datum anno etc. 1506. The breff her nest Dateret äre finnes på fierde bladh her effter. (fols. 7r–9v are blank). [10r] (margin ‘Rykala godz’) Et goffue breff på it godz ... [14r] ... aff Helga I bierno Datum 1444. (fol. 14v is blank). [15r] (margin ‘Wadios’) ---huilkit ---gutz bleff sagt ... [18r] ... gore klostret ther rätt vtaff, datum 1527. [18v] (Information on the organization of the charters) ---anne breff --- vpa skal tin val--- kunna igenfinna och huad vti huar klasa är. Vti then forsta klasan finner man all funderingz oc forswarelsebreff ... är inne medh Montiskala. [19r] C 7. Köpe breff som her Nils … [22v] … Datum anno 1520. [23r] --- Bythesbreff Ther henrick wäpnere … [31v] … Jacop Jonson til Anno 1424. (fols. 32r–34v are blank).

 Paper 34 folios 21 32 Text area varies Modern foliation in pencil in the lower margin. The current sequence and foliation are possibly incorrect. None of the quires is currently bound, but consist instead in gatherings of loose bifolia or singletons. On fol. 6v there is an annotation stating that charters that follow chronologically are found on the fourth leaf after this one. The last charter on fol. 6v is dated 1506 and charters postdating that are found on fol. 22. Moving that later quire (fols. 19–22) to a position after the first quire would make sense, since it contains charters shelf-marked with the letter ‘C’; it would follow on naturally from the charters shelf-marked ‘A’, which appear in the first quire. 2III12 + I14 + 216 + I18 + II22 + VI34

All leaves have been torn in the upper margin and subsequently conserved with Japanese paper. Some loss of text occurs on almost every leaf. There is some staining and fraying along the edges.

A watermark of a crown with a cross and star above it; similar to Piccard, Kronen, s. 42; dated to 1540s–1550s (see also Åström 2013, 115). Another (only fols. 19–22) depicting a letter ‘P’ with a flower over.

 One unruled column (c. 23–25 lines) with notes in the margins.

Four hands writing a cursive of saec. XVI: A, fols. 1r–6v, 17r–18v, 22r–v, 27v–31v; B, fols. 10r–14r, 19r–21v; C: fols. 15r-16v; D: 23r–27v.

No decoration.

Six unbound gatherings and a few loose singletons in modern brown paper covers. These are kept within cardboard covers.

The manuscript contains a registry of the charters confiscated in 1554 from the Birgittine monastery of Naantali. The registry at least partly follows the organization of the actual archive. It was written by experienced scribes, probably in connection with the confiscation or else soon after it. It is possible that the writing was done in Stockholm (Kammararkivet) once the charters had been received there.

It is kept in the National Library (shelf-mark ‘A 934’ recorded on the covers (both the paper and cardboard ones)).

In 1853 the manuscript was moved from the Kammararkivet to the National Library.

 A. I. Arwidsson, Handlingar till upplysning af Finlands häfder, vol. 7, Stockholm 1853, 1–42. Ville Walta, ‘Writing Charters and Building Archives in Medieval Sweden. The Example of the Birgittine Monastery of Naantali’, Archiv für Diplomatik, Schriftgeschichte, Siegel- und Wappenkunde 58 (2012), 301–302. Patrik Åström, Vattenmärken i svenska medeltida laghandskrifter och Uppsala universitetsbiblioteks medeltida pappersbrev, Uppsala 2013. Encoding added