Stockholm, National Library, D 358. Annalistic notes Cataloguer Ville Walta Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Codices Fennici Creative Commons BY 4.0 Stockholm National Library D 358 Saec. XVI2 (1566–1568?), Finland? Annalistic notes concerning Sweden and especially Finland (840–1566). Ed. Heininen 1989, 99–103.

Inner front cover: A poem on the fall of virtues, in Swedish (same hand as the rest of the MS). Ed. Heininen 1989, 39.

‘Iustitia är slaghen dödh, Charitas ligger i sin största nöd ... Furtum strenger sig in medh stoort stååt, Veritas clagar sig medh underlig lååt.’

Fol. ir–v: Annalistic notes in Latin. Not numbered. Ed. Heininen 1989, 99.

[ir] Anno domini. 840 Sanctus Ansgarius predicavit in Swecia ... [iv] 1460. Obiit dominus Magnus Episcopus aboensis.

Fols. 1r–12v: Annalistic notes in Swedish. Ed. Heininen 1989, 99–103.

[1r] Anno domini. 1. 1151. Bleff sancte Henrich slaghen udi Kiula ... [12v] ... (by another hand) Affsomnade Salig her Göstaff Fincke på gesterby och bleff begraffen Sancte Catherine dagh i Kimiti Kirkio.

Fol. 13r–15r: Thematical index to each annalistic note referring to the number of note and to the folium.

[13r] Index. Åbo stadh affbrentt. Först. Genom Rydzerne 4, 1. Genom wådhaeeldh 7, 1 ... [15r] Södhermalm bran I Stockholm 43, 10.

(Fols. 15v–18v are blank.)

Inner back cover: A table counting how many years fall between 1566 and the individual annalistic notes (number of the note in blue and number of years in red).

 Paper (parchment covers) 19 folios. 7,5 10 4,5 6,5 Original foliation in red ink starting from the second paper leaf and ending before the index (1–12). I((VI–1) + III)19 The manuscript is in good condition. 15 lines in one column ruled with ink.

One main hand writing a high quality cursive of saec. XVI2.

The years are marked in red, the title ‘Anno domini’ and numbers of the notes are in blue. Apart from this there is no decoration.

Bound in limp parchment covers. The back cover has been so cut to produce a tag that was inserted for closure into a slit cut in the front cover.

The manuscript consists of a very small quire bound in parchment. The size suggests it was a personal notebook, albeit one written with considerable care and skill. The notes on fols. 1–12 have been separately numbered in blue and are referred to in the index by both folia number (in red) and this marking number (in blue). The first leaf containing unnumbered annalistic notes in Latin is not included in the index. These Latin notes were probably added later on, although they are written by the same hand as the rest of the text. The final note on fol. 12v is added by another hand and left unnumbered.

A possible tempus post quem is provided by the last annal, for November 1566. But this note is in a different hand than the rest of the manuscript. Since one note still mentions Erik (XIV) as king, the work was probably written before his deposition in the autumn of 1568. The table on the inner back cover suggests that the manuscript was written in 1566 at the latest. Since the last note concerning 1566 is by another hand, the manuscript may indeed have been written already in 1565. Several notes concern Finland and Turku. It seems likely that the manuscript was written in that area.

More interest is shown towards the nobility than to church affairs, perhaps suggesting that the owner was a layman. This is also suggested by the fact that this manuscript may have served as a source for Klaus Hermansson Fleming (d. 1616) in composing his <hi rend="italic">Memoriale chronicum</hi>.

There is no information for how the manuscript came to the National Library of Sweden; On the back cover in ink ‘31’. The front cover has a pasted paper with the modern shelf-mark of the National Library written on it.

 Simo Heininen, Suomalaisen historiankirjoituksen synty. Tutkimus Paavali Juustenin piispainkronikasta, Helsinki 1989, 39–48. Encoding added