208:, where the collection was held, was requisitioned by the British Government as part of the war effort. The manuscripts were stored in crates in the cellars of the house and subsequently purchased for £100,000 by the antiquarian firm of William H Robinson Ltd in 1945. This firm auctioned off the collection until it closed in 1956. The Codex Scardensis was still unsold and passed into the private collection of Lionel and Philip Robinson.
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wanted to purchase the manuscript but was unable to, despite the owners allowing him to gather other manuscripts and fragments from their collections. He was, however, allowed to borrow the manuscript from 1710 to 1712, during which time it was copied by one of his scribes. These copies (AM 628 4to,
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On 30 November 1965 the manuscript was bought for
Iceland by a group of Icelandic banks organised by Dr Jóhannes Nordal. This consortium arranged for the codex to be bought by Mr T. Hannas, a Norwegian bookseller living in London, so as not attract attention and lead to the manuscript's price being
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Scardensis was likely written in around 1360 at the monastery at Helgafell for Ormr Snorrason, a lawman and chief who inherited the estate of Skarð in 1322. Folio 94v. of the manuscript contains a note which records that in 1401 Ormr Snorrason "gave and delivered" the manuscript to the church
169:, for example, is copied from AM 239 fol. which is only a few years older than Codex Scardensis. The texts later in the manuscript appear, on orthographic and stylistic evidence, to be based on older works. These stay closer to their Latin exemplars, whereas the younger texts add in extra material.
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The last time the manuscript was mentioned in the inventories of Skarð church was in 1807. In 1827 it was recorded that "The Lives of the
Apostles on vellum are now not to be found." The codex reappears on record in 1836, when Thomas Thorpe offered it for sale in London. Nothing is known about the
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The manuscript features the work of seven scribes. Only one of these, the priest Eilífr who wrote part of the tithe account in 1401, is known by name. The majority of the text was written by a scribe referred to as H Hel02 with contributions by H Hel11. A short passage was written by H Hel03. The
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Phillipps' death in 1872, his manuscript collection passed to his daughter Katherine and her husband John Fenwick. From 1886 John Fenwick began auctioning off books in the collection, but the Codex Scardensis was never offered for sale. In 1938
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The manuscript originally had 95 leaves, but one leaf following folio 63 is missing. There are thirteenth gatherings which were rearranged when the manuscript was rebound. Folio 45, the largest, measures 41.6 by 27.4 cm, which is as large at
200:. Phillipps produced a catalogue of the 23,837 manuscripts in his collection. Only 50 copies of this were printed, and it was through this that the Codex Scardensis's location became known to the world of Old Norse scholarship again.
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Snorrason's donation in 1401 appears to have been of his share of the manuscript.
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