Stockholm, National Archives, C 2. Birger Trolle’s accounts from Turku Castle, 1463–1464 Cataloguer Ville Walta Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Codices Fennici Creative Commons BY 4.0 Stockholm National Archives C 2 1463–1464, Turku Birger Trolle’s accounts for Turku Castle, 1463–1464.

Fols. 1r–46r: Birger Trolle’s accounts for Turku Castle, 1463–1464. The accounts proceed one parish at a time, each parish beginning a new page, so that occasionally most of a preceding page is empty. Ed. Hausen 1881–1883, 323–356.

[1r] (a few struck-through markings) (fol. 1v is blank) [2r] Arom æfter gwdz byrd mocdlxoiij tha Jach birger trwlle riddher anamet aboo slot aff frw mærete ste larense dagh [10 August 1463] mz gode mens øwerware som war philpus jwersson erik abiørnson rawald styrson magnus hanson spore och sten hinrikson awapn. Obyrdh. Thzta hawer jach op boret ... [21r] ... niels benktsson xx marker (fol. 21v is blank) [22r] Anno domini mcdlxiij. Item kam aff ladegarden oc til qwarnen i resso oc sa hiit pa slotth ... item j pund korn til gryn (fol. 22v is blank). [23r] (added in a younger hand ‘Ao 1464’) Thetta är skat boken Anno domini mcdlxiiij fra sancte Ioha[n]isse dagh vpbyrd aff swder finne. pike sokn ... [46r] ... Item heyke sswppe ii pund rog for arbeyt (fol. 46v is blank).

(Fols. 8v–11v, 20r, 21v, 24v, 33v–37v, 44r–45r are blank).

 Paper 46 folios 20,5-21,5 29-30 Fols. 1–22: 20,5 × 29 (text area varies); fols. 23–46: 21,5 × 30 (varies). Modern foliation in ink in the upper right margin. XI22 + VII36 + V46

There is moisture damage throughout the manuscript in the upper margin. Especially at the beginning this has caused the ink to fade and become difficult to read. Apart from this there are some tears in the paper and fraying along the edges.

Watermarks suggest the manuscript was composed one year at a time: fols. 1–22: a crown with a three leaved clover above it (see Piccard, Kronen I, 324-327 (dated 1454–1470); Briquet, Couronne, 4645-4646 (dated 1459–1473); fols. 23–46: a bull’s head with eyes and nostrils and a star above it (Piccard, Ochsenkopf VII).

 One unruled column with a varying number of lines.

At least two alternating hands writing cursives of saec. XV.

No decoration; the layout and other features serve practical purposes.

Limp binding of brown leather. It features a wrap-around flap from the lower cover, which is used to close the binding. There are two holes visible in the back cover. They were presumably used to insert leather straps or strings to fasten the flap. At the front a modern pastedown with the shelf-mark, a headline ‘Birger Trolles räkenskapsbok för Åbo slot och län 1463, 1464’, and reference to the modern edition.

The manuscript contains Birger Trolle’s (c. 1401–1471) accounts for the castle and province of Turku in 1463 and 1464. Judging by the number of cancellations, corrections, and blank spaces left for additions, the manuscript may be a rough draft or used to keep running accounts. It is written by at least two scribes who were presumably employed in the castle’s chancery.

National Archives mark ‘C.2’ on the front cover. The manuscript came to the Archives from the Kammarkollegiet's archives, which became a part of the National Archives in 1922.

 Reinhold Hausen (ed.), Bidrag till Finlands historia, Helsingfors 1881–1883, III. Encoding added