Parchment.
18 quires: I: 8 (ff. 1-8), II: 8 (ff. 9-16), III: 8 (ff. 17-24), IV: 8 (ff. 25-32), V: 8 (ff. 33-40), VI: 8 (ff. 41-48), VII: 8 (ff. 49-56), VIII: 8 (ff. 57-64), IX: 8 (ff. 65-72), X: 8 (ff. 73-80), XI: 10 (ff. 81-90), XII: 6 (ff. 91-96), XIII: 8 (ff. 97-104), XIV: 8 (ff. 105-112), XV: 8 (ff. 113-120), XVI: 8 (ff. 121-128), XVII: 8 (ff. 129-136), XVIII: 7 (ff. 137-143). Two additional paper quires of modern paper (18 unwritten leaves) have been inserted behind the original book block.
One column; crayon ruling; pricked (visible on ff. 1, 2, 17, 18, 19 et al.); 16 lines; written area: 100 x 72 mm.; rubricated.
Two hands: Hand 1, a later gothic book script, has written
Hand 2, a later gothic book hand, has written
The corrections of the Jutish Law such as of > om, æth > ættr, ængi > ængin and graphemic changings such as u to u with a superscript vertical stroke are made by a younger hand.
Except for the numerous red and blue simple lombards, usually 2 lines in heigth, there are four decorated initials of varied size:
Style: The geometric design is somewhat idiosyncratic, but well in accordance with the rather crude panscandinavian standard idiom.
Blind-tooled and gilt panel-stamped brown calfskin binding, most likely Germany or the Netherlands 16th century. Size: 165 x 110 x 47 mm.
Brown calfskin over bevelled beech boards. One (of two) engraved hook-clasp fastening at fore-edge, catch plate missing. Rounded spine with three raised double bands. Originally tight back, now cracked at the joint of the upper cover and detached from spine. Defect paper label with manuscript title in second compartment and a blind-tooled library label in top compartment of the back. Stuck-on white and brown endbands embroidered over parchment lining and cord now in part detached. Red edges. Plain paper pastedowns. On the pastedown of the upper board the librarian August Palm (1826-1907) has given the content and dating of the book.Jutske Logh. Erik Glipings Nyborgs stadga 1284. Från 1300-1400-talet.
Pastedown of lower board, foliated 161, is detached thus making visible four straps of reused parchment with Latin text. Two additional paper quires of eight leaves each at the end of the textblock, one of the quires with the leaves cut to a stub. All along packed sewing on three double cords laced through the boards.
The covers are blind-tooled into a frame made of multiple triple fillets and a blind roll of arabesques and heads-in-medallions. The centre is blocked with a gilt panel and the top and bottom compartments stamped with two gilt foils each. The panel-stamp of the upper cover (75 x 35 mm.) depicts Christ as a child treading on a snake; the inscription reads: EMA[N]AVEL
. The inscription of the lower cover panel-stamp reads: INOBEDIENTIA
, and depicts The Fall within a architectural framework: Adam seated holding an apple and Eva standing to the right reaching up towards the tree. The back is blind-tooled with double fillets next to the bands.
Foliated in pencil by modern cataloguer in upper right corner of the original book block ff. 1-143, the additional paper leaves ff. 144-161.
The first leaf has been cut in upper margin.
According to the dating in Danmarks Gamle Landskabslove the
Acquired in