Stockholm, National Archives, E 9046 (olim Cod. Skokl. 143 4o). Magnus Eriksson’s Landslag

Modern foliation in ink in the upper right margin. The foliation skips the flyleaves in the beginning and the end (one unnumbered flyleaf at the beginning and nine at the end of the manuscript), and the three blank leaves following fol. 17.

1 + VI

+ IV

17(+3)

+ 5VI

+ VIII

+ 4VI

141

+ 9

Catchwords found on fols.

in the lower margin.

The manuscript is in good overall condition. There is some dirt on the leaves and the manuscript has been cropped in a way which has resulted in some losses to the marginalia and article numbers.

The manuscript features several different watermarks:

Unicorns

are found on fols. 58–124 (cf.

Briquet: Licorne, 9997–9999

Ox head

of the type

Piccard, Ochsenkopf, XIII, 161–190

, is found on fols. 1–17 and on the unnumbered flyleaves at the end of the manuscript.

Ox head

of the type,

Piccard, Ochsenkopf, I, 701–742

, is found on fols. 18–62.

Ox head

of the type

Piccard, Ochsenkopf, IX, 161–176

, is found on fols. 130–138. A

letter Y

is found on fols. 134–137 (cf.

Briquet: Lettre Y, 9182–9184

). For more details, see

Åström 2013, 177

Two columns with bounding lines in ink or drypoint;

. 24–27 lines of text.

One main hand writing a cursive. The scribe,

Gunnar Bagge

, dated his work to

1483

. On fol.

: ‘Item J tesse book finness tesso artikuli som gwnnar baggie haffwer scriffued aff konungh Karls book i(?) gwdz wald är och konung affuer alth Swärikie waar etc. Här Steen stwre Swärikis rike forstondare Arum äpter gudz födilssä tiid mcdlxxx3

’.

On fol.

140v

, a struck-through note: ‘Anno domini mcdlxxx3

In vigilia sancti henrici cumpletum est h[unc?] per manus gwnnar baggie Rike[se]ndz forestondare här sten [stwre] ... a abo ... scal [bröröms] närware[nde] g[re]g[ir]s Jacopsson I ware daga gaff nadogh här biscop koort vi(?) lester(?) til hälegga hemming sancteras’. The bishop could be

Konrad Bitz

Turku

(

Kort Rogge

Strängnäs

is the only alternative at this time).

The kalendar seems to be by another hand.

A few contemporary hands write marginal additions.

The decorative scheme is very simple, most likely by the scribe himself. At the beginnings of chapters there are occasionally large (up to 12 lines high) multi-coloured initials with red, black, blue and green. On fols.

10r

20v

, the initials include an illumination of a dragon. In the beginning of articles, small lombards in red. Rubrics, highlighting of majuscules, paraphs, article numbers and headings in the upper margin in red.

Parchment wrappers from a

saec. XIV–XV

antiphonary

; 33 × 20*, which contains a segment from the liturgy of St

Erik

. Pastedowns and flyleaves of more recent paper. On the spine, remnants of a pasted paper label with the old shelf-mark.

The manuscript contains

Magnus Eriksson

’s

Landslag

along with a few other legal texts. They were all written by the same scribe who identified himself as

Gunnar Bagge

and dated the manuscript to

1483

(fols.

and

140v

), also mentioning that some of it was based on a manuscript belonging to King

Karl Knutsson

(d. 1470). Based on the texts and language,

Beckman (1919, 24)

has suggested the manuscript may be connected to

Finland

. In the crossed-out dedication on fol.

140v

, Bishop Kort (=

Konrad Bitz

?), and possibly also the city of

Turku

, are mentioned, which might point in this direction as well.

The kalendar, which seems to be the work of another scribe, is intended for the

diocese of Uppsala

In the upper margin of fol.

, a note on purchase of the manuscript ‘pro iiii marcis’.

The manuscript belonged to the ‘Brahiska och Wrangelska’ manuscript collection at

Skokloster

with no. 13 (see inner front cover). Later it had the shelf-mark ‘Cod. Skokl. 143 4

’ and currently it is shelf-marked ‘E 9046’ at the

Swedish National Archives

Natanael Beckman,

Studier i outgivna fornsvenska handskrifter

, Stockholm 1917.

Natanael Beckman, “Två finlänska gårdsrättsredaktioner”,

Göterborgs högskolas årsskrift 25

(1919).

C. J. Schlyter,

Konung Magnus Erikssons Landslag

, Corpus iuris Sueo-Gotorum Antiqui, vol. 10, Lund 1862, XLIX (no. 77)

C. J. Schlyter,

Uplands-lagen

, Corpus iuris Sueo-Gotorum Antiqui, vol. 3, Stockholm 1834, XXVI–XXVII (no. 39).

C. J. Schlyter,

Konung Magnus Erikssons Stadslag

, Corpus iuris Sueo-Gotorum Antiqui, vol. 11, Lund 1865.

Patrik Åström,

Vattenmärken i svenska medeltida laghandskrifter och Uppsala universitetsbiblioteks medeltida pappersbrev

, Uppsala 2013.

Cataloguer

Ville Walta

Finnish Literature Society (SKS)

Codices Fennici

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