Manuscripts collected by Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d 1839) at Stowe House, Bucks. c 1000-c 1800. 1085 manuscripts
STJÓRN (i.e. "a steering"): a Biblical Paraphrase of the historical books of the Old Testament, in Icelandic. Begun by order of Hakon V., King of Norway, circ. 1300, but completed, from Exodus, ch. xx. onwards, by adopting the earlier Gyðinga Sögur ("Sagas of the Jews") of Brand Jónsson, Bishop ...
"ELIS SAGA": the romance of Élie de Saint-Gille, in Icelandic. Transcribed by Grim Jonsonn Thorkelin from MS. 533, quarto, of the Arna-Magnæan Library at Copenhagen, which was used by E. Kölbing in his edition of Elis Saga og Rosamundu (Heilbronn, 1881): see his introd., pp. viii. x.-xiii. Paper...
"SAGA af Partalopa ok Marmoriu": the romance of Partonopeus de Blois, in Icelandic. Transcribed by Grim Jonsson Thorkelin, from Arna-Magnæan MS. 533, quarto (see above), which was edited by O.Klockhoff in the Upsala Universitets Årsskrift for 1877. Another copy is in Add. MS. 4860 (ff. 189-208),...