A collection of 153 Scandinavian manuscripts (chiefly Icelandic, a few Danish, Latin and Swedish), including papers relating to poetry, law and history.
Boreal Manuscripts
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Bor. 1-153
- Dates of Creation16th-19th century
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialDanish, Icelandic, Latin, and Swedish.
- Physical Description153 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Finn Magnusen (1781-1848), was born in Iceland and educated at Copenhagen. He was a lawyer at Reykjavik, 1806-15.
Access Information
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).
Acquisition Information
The manuscripts were bought from Finn Magnusen for 350, through W.C. Trevelyan, esq., of Wallington Hall, Northumberland, in 1828.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. IV, nos. 20642-20794.