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Auction archive: Lot number 17

Gronlandia edur Grænland saga ur Islendskum Sagna Bookum

Estimate
US$10,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
US$10,710
Auction archive: Lot number 17

Gronlandia edur Grænland saga ur Islendskum Sagna Bookum

Estimate
US$10,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
US$10,710
Beschreibung:

Gronlandia edur Grænland saga ur Islendskum Sagna Bookum Arngrímur Jónsson, 1688 JÓNSSON, Arngrímur (1568-1648). Gronlandia edur Grænland saga ur Islendskum Sagna Bookum og Annalum Samantekinn og a Latinskt maal Stritsud as heim heidurliga & halaerda Manni Syra. Translated by Einar Eyjólfsson. Skalhollte [Iceland], Hendrick Kruse, 1688. Ternaux-Compans-JCB copy of the first edition of the Saga of the Greenlanders, documenting the expeditions of the vikings in North America. "The historical truth of the Norse voyages to America around the year 1000 is now well established by archaeology. Corroborative evidence has long existed, however, in the saga literature describing the early Norse voyages to Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland" (Creating America). The Saga of the Greenlanders is preserved in the 14th century Flateyjarbók manuscript and was likely first written down in the previous century. It is often referred to, alongside the Saga of Erik the Red, as one of the Vinland Sagas, which tell the story of the travels of Erik the Red and his children, including his son Leif the Lucky, daughter Freydis, and daughter-in-law Gudrid, in Greenland and Newfoundland. The text did not see print until the late 17th century, when the Viking sagas became subject to an antiquarian revival in Denmark and Iceland. Most of the first printing projects in Iceland were religious in nature; printing came to Iceland in 1530 with an Episcopal press set up in Holar. A century later the Lutheran bishop of Skaholte, Þorþur Þorláksson, had the press moved to his city, and this saga was printed on it. The compiler, Arngrímur Jónsson the Learned, was a friend of Ole Worm and played a major part in transmitting Icelandic literature and history to the rest of Europe, earning him a mention by Samuel Purchas. This work is sometimes found bound with other sagas from the same press; it is often incomplete. Creating America 1; Pictured to the Life 31; Sabin 2058; Hermannsson p. 41-42; Bibliotheca Danica 645-646 Quarto (175 x 140mm). Woodcut of Eric the Red on reverse of title, woodcut of walrus on final page (each leaf remargined at gutter, trimmed at top edge with some losses, occasionally repaired and with headlines provided in ink, some other small repairs occasionally touching printed area, some spots). 19th-century red morocco by Simier with gilt emblem of Ternaux-Compans. Provenance: occasional marginalia – Henri Ternaux-Compans (1807-1864; supralibros) – John Carter Brown (1797-1874; bookplate, bequeathed to:) – John Carter Brown Library (release stamp).

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
25 May 2022
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
Beschreibung:

Gronlandia edur Grænland saga ur Islendskum Sagna Bookum Arngrímur Jónsson, 1688 JÓNSSON, Arngrímur (1568-1648). Gronlandia edur Grænland saga ur Islendskum Sagna Bookum og Annalum Samantekinn og a Latinskt maal Stritsud as heim heidurliga & halaerda Manni Syra. Translated by Einar Eyjólfsson. Skalhollte [Iceland], Hendrick Kruse, 1688. Ternaux-Compans-JCB copy of the first edition of the Saga of the Greenlanders, documenting the expeditions of the vikings in North America. "The historical truth of the Norse voyages to America around the year 1000 is now well established by archaeology. Corroborative evidence has long existed, however, in the saga literature describing the early Norse voyages to Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland" (Creating America). The Saga of the Greenlanders is preserved in the 14th century Flateyjarbók manuscript and was likely first written down in the previous century. It is often referred to, alongside the Saga of Erik the Red, as one of the Vinland Sagas, which tell the story of the travels of Erik the Red and his children, including his son Leif the Lucky, daughter Freydis, and daughter-in-law Gudrid, in Greenland and Newfoundland. The text did not see print until the late 17th century, when the Viking sagas became subject to an antiquarian revival in Denmark and Iceland. Most of the first printing projects in Iceland were religious in nature; printing came to Iceland in 1530 with an Episcopal press set up in Holar. A century later the Lutheran bishop of Skaholte, Þorþur Þorláksson, had the press moved to his city, and this saga was printed on it. The compiler, Arngrímur Jónsson the Learned, was a friend of Ole Worm and played a major part in transmitting Icelandic literature and history to the rest of Europe, earning him a mention by Samuel Purchas. This work is sometimes found bound with other sagas from the same press; it is often incomplete. Creating America 1; Pictured to the Life 31; Sabin 2058; Hermannsson p. 41-42; Bibliotheca Danica 645-646 Quarto (175 x 140mm). Woodcut of Eric the Red on reverse of title, woodcut of walrus on final page (each leaf remargined at gutter, trimmed at top edge with some losses, occasionally repaired and with headlines provided in ink, some other small repairs occasionally touching printed area, some spots). 19th-century red morocco by Simier with gilt emblem of Ternaux-Compans. Provenance: occasional marginalia – Henri Ternaux-Compans (1807-1864; supralibros) – John Carter Brown (1797-1874; bookplate, bequeathed to:) – John Carter Brown Library (release stamp).

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
25 May 2022
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
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