Uppsala, University Library, E 32. Historical texts Cataloguer Ville Walta Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Codices Fennici Creative Commons BY 4.0 Uppsala University Library E 32 Saec. XVI ex. – XVII in., Finland Historical texts.

I:

Fols. i–ii: first flyleaf: A register of the volume, dated 1706 in the lower right margin. (Followed by a blank leaf.)

Fols. 1r–277r: Olavus Petri, <hi rend="italic">En Svensk krönika</hi>. Ed. Sahlgren 1917, 1–270. This version only extends until the year 1512 (on the different text versions, see Westin 1946).

[1r] (prologue) Allom them som thenna Crönika läsande eller hörande warda, önsker jagh Olaus Petri, predicare J Stockholm Salighetens kundskap ... [16r] ... som wij af gudz tilhielp begynna wilia. (fol. 16v is blank). [17r] Enn swensk Crönike mester Olaui petri Stocholmensis. Thenn första konung, som wåra swesnkn ... [277r] ... blef begrafuen i westerårs domkyrckio. (fols. 277v–278v are blank).

II:

Fols. 279r–289r: Biographcial notes on Swedish kings from Olav Skötkonung to King Sigismund’s election in 1587. Followed by annalistic notes.

[279r] Ett kort extracht, utdragit aff thenn Swenska Crönickann, om alla Christna konungar, som i Swerige regeret haffua etc. Thenne Oluff skåtte konung, hade förbundh ... [289r] ... Swerigis konung vthi 39 åhr. [289v] (Annalistic notes, 1186–1372, by another hand) Anno domini 1248 åhr i konung Erich ... [290r] ... (1372) wasthena wartt funderadh etc. (fol. 290v is blank)

III:

Fol. 291r–v: Some annalistic notes from the years 1571 to 1592, especially concerning noble families.

[291r] Anno domini 1571 wåre Rysserne In I Nylandh ... [291v] ... (1591, Ture Christiernsson’s birth) war emillan fem och sex. (fol. 292 is blank).

Fols. 293r–308r: <hi rend="italic">Lilla Rimkrönikan</hi>, with additions up to King Kristian I(ed. Klemming 1865, 215–236). Followed by some annalistic notes concerning the Swedish royal family.

[293r] Sweriges konungers Crönike aff gammell heeden höös, steltt vpå rijm kårtteligen. Erick Göttrickzson, Förste konung. Thå Bodde Jagh i Skåne ... [308r] ... ewig gledie i himmelrijk. Finis. (Annalistic notes, 1521–1560) Anno 1533 i thenn 13 decembris S. Lucie dagh blef hertig Erich född ... [308v] ... (1560, King Gustav's funeral) begraffuen i vpsala. (A few notes to be inserted after the text ending on fol. 310v have been added after this.)

Fols. 309r–310v: Descriptions of Swedish and especially Finnish coats of arms.

[309r] Insignia et Arma Ducatum et Comitatum Regni Suetie. Upland et hertig döme ... [310v] ... babbell i handen. (The notes on fol. 308v are marked for insertion at the end of the text.)

IV:

Fols. 311r–333v: An abreviated version of Johannes Magni’s chronicle (<hi rend="italic" >Historia de omnibus Gothorum Suenonumque regibus</hi>). Partially ed. in Heininen 1989, 111–114.

[311r] Catalogus de regibus Sveciae et Gothica gentis Sveonumque origine ex Hystoria Johannis Magni Gothi Archiepiscopi Upsalensis breuiter exerptus. Thucydides. Qui nescit Hystorias ... [311v] Præsagium Danis pernitiosum. Tetra vos patrios fortuna ... et caedem geminabit. [312r] Johannes Magni Gothus Archiepiscopus Upsalensis de Gothorum Sveonumque origine et situ regni. Omnium nationum Septentrionalium ... [333v] ... 1592 Nouembris 17. et Upsaliæ sepelitur (catchword for ‘Sigismundus’ written in the lower margin, but fol. 334 is blank).

V:

Fols. 335r–359v: Erik Jöransson Tegel’s <hi rend="italic">Genealogia öfver Sveriges, Polens och Danmarks konungar</hi>. Last entries are from 1596.

[335r] Genealogia öffuer Sweriges, Polens oc danmarck konunger, som näst förledne Otto hundrade år Regeret haffue. (Dedication) Thenn högborne furste och herre, her Carl [IX] ... sammandragin aff E[rik] J[öransson] [Tegel] (fol. 335v is blank) [336r] Åhr taal och Nampn opå alle konunger som sedan syndfloden in till thenne Genealogies begynnelse i Swerige warit ... [349v] ... widh 2 Anno 1550. (fol. 350 is blank) [351r] Danmarks konungar. Siword II ... [355r] ... 29. augusti Anno 1596. (fol. 355v is blank). [356r] Polens konunger. Pijastus then 10 Ifrå Lecho ... [359r] ... 17. decembris Anno 1587. (fol. 359v is blank; after this at least three folia have been excised).

VI:

Fols. 360r–371v: Clergy’s letter-exchange with King Karl IX, regarding the handbook and Riksdagen in 1600.

[360r] Till thenn högborne furstis och herris her Carls ... vthi februarij och Martij Månader Anno etc. 1600. Effter thet then högborne furste och herre her Carl ... [364r] ... Nådeligen ursechtad hafua. [364v] Förstelige Nådhes hertig Carls tilmåtige swar ... Såsom the föregifua, att ... [369r] ... iudicium wydare hafua hemstelt. Carolus propria. [369v] Wyå denn högborne fustis och herris, hertig Carls ... [372v] ... non precipi ore corporeo in cœna.

Fols. 373r–377v: Jöns Mattson i Jussila’s letter to his parents from Rome 1572. Ed. Leinberg 1891, 225–233.

[373r] Myn ganska wenlig och kärligh helsen ... [377v] ... die conceptionis Mariæ virginis, Romæ. (two excised leaves after).

VII:

Fols. 378r–401v: Excerpts from Swedish and Danish chronicles.

[378r] Enn gamell Crönika aff heedenhos kortteligen författadt (rest of the folio and 378v are blank). [379r] Hwar som omsöker och öfwerläs krönickör ... [401v] ... kallade hann wid sitt nampn hedaby.

VIII:

Fols. 402r–409v: A text regarding church ceremonies abolished in 1594.

[402r] En kort förklaringh på the afflagda Ceremonier. Efther thet een twist är hooss oss upkåmmen ... [409v] ... noghsampt wara entskylladhe.

 Paper 2 + 409 folios 16,5 20 (text area varies in the different parts, I: 12,5 × 17–18) Modern foliation, which does not include the flyleaves. ii + VIII16 + 3XII88 + VI100 + 10VIII260 + IX278; VI290 + X310 + 3IV334 + VIII350 + (VI-3)359 + VIII375 + (II-2)377 + VII391 + V401 + 2II409 Catchwords appear regularly in the lower margin of each page, in all sections.

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 in 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. Encoding added