Alternative title
Provincial law of Jutland (translated)
Liber legis danorum (translated)
Language
Origin
Denmark, 15th-mid 16th century
Physical description
Format: Non digital + Digital, reformatted digital
- Script: Textualis libraria in the main text, ff. 2r-113v.
Cursiva currens in ff. 114r-126v.
Hybrida in ff. 127r-129v.
- Collation: 13 quires: I: 11 (ff. 1-11), II: 10 (ff. 12-21), III: 9 (ff. 22-30), IV: 10 (ff. 31-40), V: 10 (ff. 41-50), VI: 10 (ff. 51-60), VII: 10 (ff. 61-70), VIII: 10 (ff. 71-80), IX: 10 (ff. 81-90), X: 10 (ff. 91-100), XI: 10 (ff. 101-110), XII: 10 (ff. 111-120), XIII: 9 (ff. 121-129). The unwritten f. 1 is the original pastedown.
- Foliation: Foliated in pencil in upper right corner by modern cataloguer.
- Columns: 1
- Lines: 16-18
Notes
Literature
Hedlund, Monica: Katalog der datierten Handschriften in lateinischer Schrift vor 1600 in Schweden, Bd. II, Die Handschriften Schwedens ausgenommen UB Uppsala Stockholm, 1980. Bd. I p. 27.
Palm, August Johan Theod.: Anteckningar till medeltidshandskrifterna i Lunds Universitetsbiblotek (handwritten notes kept in a box at the manuscript department. Lund.
Book binding
Binding: Parchment binding with turned fore-edge. Sweden, 17th century, before 1659 according to the dating on the back pastedown: Datum Stockholm Den 8 Januari Annj 1659. Ericus Schult . Size: 145 x 110 x 40 mm.
Parchment binding over pasteboards with turned fore-edge. Flat spine, hollow back. Manuscript title from 20th century in ink on the back: Jutske logh 1457 . Blind-tooled library label of paper. Endbands of green silk embroidered on white leather thong and laced through the covers. Edges trimmed. Plain single flyleaves and pastedowns of paper. Single flyleaf of parchment at the front preserved from former binding. All along sewing on four double white leather thongs laced through the covers.
Decoration
All decoration is in the first part of the manuscript dated to 1457 and is likely to have been executed by the original scribe/rubricator. The larger initials mark the beginning of the main sections in the Jutish Law.
Seven small red initials with simple decoration, extended serifs or fillings in a second colour at ff. 35r (index of Book II), 82v , 84r (index of Book III), 104r , 104v , 106v , 108v .
Four larger 3-7-line initials in dark and light red as well as brown ink. The decoration in brown and light red ink was not originally intended but probably added by the time the scribe had reached the initial T at f. 86r, the only initial both conceptualized and executed as multicoloured.
at f. 2r large initial (an uncial M) in red with simple filigranated decoration and a vertically extended serif decorated with short strokes; first letter in the prologue
at f. 7r semilarge initial (B), dark red filled with light red, and surrounded by brown geometric decoration and circumscribed by a light red double frame; index of Book I
at f. 39r large initial (S) in red with brown filigranated decoration and brown outer contour; Book II
at f. 86r large initial (T) in red and brown with filigranated filling and inscribed in a square with geometric decoration; Book III
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Location
Lund University LibraryHelgonabackenBox 3
221 00 Lund
St. Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library
- Shelfmark: Medeltidshandskrift 25
- Previous shelfmark: Bibl. Ms. H. L. a) 4:o 32
Identifiers (general)
urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-14619 (nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:14619 (alvin)
Licensing of the work
Public Domain Mark (No Known Copyright)