Stockholm, National Archives, C 38. Olof Nilsson Tawast’s accounts Cataloguer Ville Walta Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Codices Fennici Creative Commons BY 4.0 Stockholm National Archives C 38 c. 1455, Finland Two slightly different versions of the same text of Olof Nilsson Tawast’s accounts. Ed. FMU 3001 (the edition is based on B (A in Hausen’s edition), which is more extensive and correct).

A:

[1r] Tesse är the afflinge goz oc ängiar som ... [6v] ... item jordh I kaytala for x mark. (in another hand) Til layhis gardh ligger solberga item læppas oc v karpalandh ... som ligger j kawkawaynio oc helfthen. Thesse ær the raar som ær j mellom ... til huktanemj och swa til pyhæsonsare. (fols. 7r–8v blank) [9r] Tesse æpterscreffne ting fik jak ingeborh waldermarsdotter ... Item j liwstakæ mz viij pipor.

B:

[1r] Tesse är the afflinge goz oc ängiar som jak olaus tawasth haffuer fongit sidom jak bonde warth försth I leso aff raya ... [3v] ... Anno domini mcdliijo widh S:te Michels dagh war eet skipte giorth j Porkkala mellan her Olaff Nielsson Thawist ok hans syster Elin och Kadrin ... [9r] ... thet æ eke en beskattat. (fols. 9v–11v blank). [12r] Thæssæ eptercrifna ting fik jak ingeborg waldemarsdotter pa min deel aff løs ørom ... [12v] ... theta epterscriffna hawer iak ingeborgh waldemarsdotter vthlakt sidan min herre led aff daghom ... gaff iak min tiænare marten henricxson for sin løøn.

 Paper A: 9 folios; B: 12 folios 15 21,5 (text area varies) Modern foliation in pencil in upper right margin (A: 1–9; B: 1–12). A: (V-1)9 (first leaf of the quire has been excised); B: VI12 The manuscript is formed of two quires with two slightly different versions of the same text. They have been bound together in modern times. Modern flyleaves have been added: there is a bifolium surrounding both manuscripts (= four flyleaves). Both manuscripts are in decent condition, although there is considerable staining, fraying along the edges and the leaves have been conserved and occasionally strengthened in the gutter. Both manuscripts have one unruled column (A fol. 9r and B fol. 12r: two columns) with a varying number of lines (usually 26–28).

A: one main hand; additional hand on fol. 6v. B: one main hand; additional hand writes section on fol. 12v.

No decoration.

Modern cardboard binding with modern flyleaves before and after both manuscripts. On the front cover: modern shelf-mark, the heading ‘Jordeboks- och hushallsanteckningar af Olof Nilsson Tavast’, and reference to the modern edition.

The manuscript contains two sets of accounts and household notes of Olof Nilsson Tawast (d. 1460), a Finnish nobleman and judge. The accounts were likely written in the mid-1450s, soon after the division of property between Olof and his sisters Elin and Karin, which is mentioned in the manuscript to have taken place 29 September 1453.

The manuscript contains two similar sets of the text, of which version B presents a more complete copy.

In the end of both manuscripts, lists of the property of Olof’s widow, Ingeborg Waldermarsdotter (d. after 1485), have been entered.

National Archive mark ‘C.38’ on the front cover. The manuscripts came to the Archives from the National Library of Sweden in the 20th century. The manuscripts had arrived at the National Library together with Anna Clementsdotter Bielke’s (Hogenskild) copybook of 1561. At this time they were in an unsorted order (see note on flyleaf before part B). The manuscripts may have ended up in the same place through Lahis gård, which passed through the hands of Henrik Bitz’s (d. 1506) widow Anna Tott (d. 1549) to the Hogenskild family.

 FMU = Finlands medeltidsurkunder 1-8, ed. Reinhold Hausen, Helsingfors 1910–1935, no. 3001. Encoding added