ICELANDIC PSLAMS

MS 2527
MS Short Title ICELANDIC PSLAMS
Text
  1. MORNING AND EVENING PSALMS FOR EACH OF THE WEEKDAYS. TRANSLATED FROM DANISH AND GERMAN BY MAGNUS JONSSON
  2. MORNING AND EVENING PSALMS AND VERSES
  3. SIGURDUR ASGEIRSSON: MORNING AND EVENING PSALMS
  4. MAGNUS JONSSON AND OTHERS: MORNING AND EVENING PSALMS
  5. SIGURDUR GISLASON: MORNING AND EVENING PSALMS
  6. EASTER PRAYERS
  7. PSALMS TO BE SUNG MORNINGS AND EVENINGS ALL WEEKS
Description MS in Icelandic on paper, Iceland, 1st half of 18th c., 144 ff. (-ca. 10), 15x10 cm, single column, (12x8 cm), 19-26 lines in Icelandic rotunda Gothic book script of medium quality and Icelandic cursive script, by several scribes.
Binding Iceland, ca. 1700-1750, blindtooled vellum sewn on 3 cords.
Context Texts 3 and 5 are known from MS copies in the National Library, Reykjavik. Text 7 is copied from a printed book known from an incomplete copy at the National Library (Islandica XIV, pp. 35-36).
Provenance 1. Bruun Rasmussen auktion 646, cat. 21.4.1998:1412.
Commentary Most of the texts 1-6 are unpublished.
Place of origin Iceland
Dates 1st half 18c