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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4880
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Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XXIV (ff. 442). An Icelandic-Latin Lexicon, with supplementary lists of words, including a list of proper names (ff. 352-357b) and a list of the names of plants (ff. 413-414); 18th cent. 'No. 20' according to a note on f. 1. Icelandic MSS Collection of sagas, annals, lega...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4881
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Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XXV (ff. 145). 'Islendska Graagaasinn'; 18th cent. A copy of the oldest written code of law in Iceland, called 'Grágás'. 'No. 19' according to a note on f. 2. It closely resembles Vellum MS. No. 1157, folio in the Old Royal Collection at Copenhagen. An edition of the 'Grág...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Icelandic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4882
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Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XXVI (ff. 326). Jónsbók, together with Icelandic versions of certain Danish ordinances, a collection of decisions delivered at the Althing, etc.; 17th-18th cent. 'No. 18' according to a note on f. 1. Viz.:- (1) 'Kirkiu Ordan'. An Icelandic version of the first and second...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Icelandic
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4883
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Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION- Vol. XXVII (ff. 49). Meditations on the Passion and Death of Our Redeemer: an Icelandic translation of a Danish work by Nicolas Paulsen, Professor of Theology at Copenhagen (d. 1645); 17th cent. Vellum. 'No. 50' according to a note on the fly leaf. The translation is by Ari Mag...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Icelandic
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4884
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Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XXVIII (ff. 215). Five romantic Sagas, together with one historical saga; 18th cent. 'No. 37' according to a note on f. 1. Viz.:- (1) 'Sagann af Pontiano Keisara og Þeim Sio Vysu Meisturumm': story of the Emperor Pontianus and the Seven Wise Masters. The Latin original o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Icelandic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4885
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Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XXIX (ff. 127). Icelandic version of the Norwegian Code of Laws, promulgated by King Christian V of Denmark, 15 Apr. 1687; 18th cent. In 6 Books with a table of contents at the end, but without the title-page and the introductory decree. 'No. 16' according to a note on f. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Icelandic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4886
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Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XXX (ff. 103). Lives of the Apostles: 18th cent. '10' according to a note on f. 1. Viz.:- (1) Peter: in 14 chapters with a 15th on the Passion of Peter and Paul. ff. 2-24b;- (2) John: in 12 chapters. ff. 24b-42;- (3) James: in 4 chapters. ff. 42-47b;- (4) Bartholomew: in 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Icelandic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4887
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Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XXXI (ff. 148). Jónsbók: the code of Laws promulgated in 1280 by Jón Einarsson, at the instigation of King Magnús Lagabaetir; 1644. See also Add. MS. 4873. This copy, which has a coloured title-page and coloured initials in imitation of German art of the 13th cent., was ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Icelandic
Date Range:: 1644
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4888
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Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XXXII (ff. 52).'Psal[t]erium natale edur faedingar psaltare'. Thirty Psalms on the Incarnation and Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ by Gunnlaugr Snorrason, priest at Helgafell in west Iceland (d. 1796); 18th cent. The psalms were printed at Hólar in 1747. 'No. 29' accordi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Danish, English, and Icelandic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4889
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Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XXXIII (ff. 120). Lucidarius: an Icelandic adaptation of part of the German work of instruction called 'Lucidarius' which was composed at the instance of Duke Henry the Lion (d. 1195); 18th cent.'No. 31'according to a note on f. 1. It is in the form of a master's answers ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Icelandic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

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