Uppsala, University Library, Palmsk. 312, 369–380. ‘Palmskiöld’s Fragment’ Cataloguer Ville Walta Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Codices Fennici Creative Commons BY 4.0 Uppsala University Library Palmsk. 312 Palmskiöld’s Fragment 1560s, Viipuri Contains the first 18 vitae and a defective version of no. 19 included in the Paulus Juusten’s Chronicle of Finnish bishops. Followed by epitaphs and other notes.

Pp. 369–373: Draft for a Chronicle of Finnish bishops (Catalogus et ordinaria successio episcoporum Finlandensium) (ed. Heininen 1989, 58–61; Maliniemi 1945, 387–391).

[369] Pontiffices isti finlandenses meruere ecclesias regere suffulti doctrina Christi. Henricus. Anglicus Anno domini ... [373] ... (Konrad Bitz) et oppidum wiburgensem. (p. 374 blank)

P. 375: Mocking epitaphs of Antti Olavinpoika and Hannu Tuomaanpoika, who died in 1560 (ed. Porthan 1799, 754). Information on the raising of the church bell in Viipuri and transcription of the church’s inscriptions (ed. Heininen 1989, 53 n. 8).

[375] Epitapho Iohannis Thome. Johannes Thome Danice gentis ... (Andreas Olavi) quasi insanus. (On raising the church bell) Anno domini 1561 februarij i vprestes ...

Pp. 376–377: A list of persons ennobled on 29 June 1561.

[376] Anno etc. 1561 then 29 Junij wdi Wpsall bliffue Greffer. Her swarthe Sture till hörningsholm ... [377] ... her Johan Rudelnis.

Pp. 378–380: Mikael Agricola’s epitaph. Ed. Porthan 1799, 750–752.

[378] Epitaphium Reuerendi uiri Magistri MIchaelis Agricolae Aboensis Episcopi qui obijt Die nona Aprilis hora duodecima pomeridiana Anno Domini 1557 RC. Ecce diem tristem ... [380] ... laudibus extat opus. Epitaphium militissimi Regis Sweciae domini Gostaui. Ponderat aqVato sVa teMpora ... regna CoLIs. (in another hand, another epitaph for Agricola) Hic iacet Agricole corpus mortale Magistri ... Spiritus arce sedes.

 Paper 6 folios 14 18,5 (text area varies) Pagination referring to the entire volume in ink (369–380) in the upper margin. One paper quire

One folio cut out between pp. 374 and 375. At least one folio missing after p. 380.

The quire is in good condition.

 one unruled column with c. 27 lines of text.

According to Heininen (1989, 53–54), pp. 369–377 were written by Henricus Matthei Raumensis in the 1560s.

Pp. 378–380, mostly humanistic cursive by another hand of saec. XVI.

Agricola’s epitaph’s rubric in red. Apart from that, no decoration.

The binding of the volume in which this quire is contained was done in saec. XVIII med..

The so-called ‘Palmskiöld’s Fragment’ contains a draft of Paulus Juusten’s Chronicle of Finnish bishops. The fragment seems to originate from Viipuri in the 1560s and was probably written by Henricus Matthei Raumensis, who acted as a teacher in the local school. He produced another short set of texts containing annalistic notes (Uppsala, University Library, Palmskiöld 311, pp. 95–98).

The fragment is included in a volume belonging to the collections of the antiquary Elias Palmskiöld (1667–1719), which contains a large quantity of material collected or copied by Palmskiöld concerning Sweden. The material was organized and bound into volumes around the middle of saec. XVIII. The collection came to Uppsala University Library in 1724. Shelf-mark ‘Palmsk. 312’ on the inner front cover of the manuscript.

 Simo Heininen, Suomalaisen historiankirjoituksen synty. Tutkimus Paavali Juustenin piispainkronikasta, Helsinki 1989, 52–55. Aarno Maliniemi, ”Suomen keskiajan piispainkronikan ns. Palmskiöldin katkelma”, Xenia Ruuthiana, Helsinki 1947, 385–391. Henrik Gabriel Porthan, M. Pauli Juusten chronicon episcoporum Finlandensium, Aboae 1799. Encoding added