Parchment, 1 f., 28,5 x 21,3 cm; saec. XIV
NKS 1463 2° is a single folium, the only extant of the codex, to which it belonged. It contains the text of Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, lib. I.57-62. The catch words on the versoside indicate that the folium was the last in its quire
The fragment was found as cover of accounts from the prefecture of Nyborg for the year 1628. It was in the Royal Archives before it was transferred to the Royal Library. It had its present binding during the reign of king Christian IX (1863 – 1906)
Bibl.: Magistri Adam Bremensis gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, ed. Bernhard Schmeidler, Hannover 1917, p. XXXIII & passim (siglum C3). - Ellen Jørgensen, Catalogus codicum Latinorum medii ævi Bibliothecæ Regiæ Hafniensis, Hafniæ 1926, p. 402f. - Anne K. G. Kristensen, Studien zur Adam von Bremen Überlieferung, København 1975, p. 139-143 & passim
Erik Petersen