Alternative title
Jutske lagboken
Language
Origin
Denmark, 15th century
Physical description
Format: Non digital + Digital, reformatted digital
- Script: Two hands: Hand 1, a later gothic book script, has written 1r-72v (quire I-IX).
Hand 2, a later gothic book hand, has written 73v-143v .
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.
- Collation: 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.
- Foliation: 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.
- Columns: 1
- Lines: 16
Notes
Literature
Den danske rigslovgivning indtil 1400. Erik Kroman (ed.) København, 1971. pp. 107, 133.
Jyske Lov Danmarks gamle Landskabslove Peter Skautrup (ed.) København, 1933. II pp. XXIII-XXIV.
Palm, August Johan Theod.: Anteckningar till medeltidshandskrifterna i Lunds Universitetsbiblotek Lund.
Book binding
Binding: 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.
Decoration
Except for the numerous red and blue simple lombards, usually 2 lines in heigth, there are four decorated initials of varied size:
at f. 1r initial (M), 6-line, red and blue with simple ornamentation
at f. 6r intarsiated 4-line initial (B), red and blue where intended filigranated decoration was never executed
at f. 42v large red initial (S) of somewhat square appearance with void central ornament and with filigranated filling in blue and red and surrounded by filigranated ornamentation, the lower serif extended with pen flourishing below mid page
at f. 99r intarsiated initial (T) in blue and red with filigranated filling and outer border in red with blue details
Style: The geometric design is somewhat idiosyncratic, but well in accordance with the rather crude panscandinavian standard idiom.
Contact
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Location
Lund University LibraryHelgonabackenBox 3
221 00 Lund
St. Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library
- Shelfmark: Medeltidshandskrift 18
- Previous shelfmark: Bibl. Ms. H. L. a) 4:o 31., Bibl. Meckiana N:o XXI.
Identifiers (general)
urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-14694 (nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:14694 (alvin)
Licensing of the work
Public Domain Mark (No Known Copyright)