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An early printed Icelandic Hymnal, 1748, with the price printed on the title page of 48 [dried] fish: Su Gamla Vijsna-Book. Epter hin[n]e Fyrre / aldeilis rett løgud / med enum sømu Vijsum, Kvædum, Psalmum, Lof-Saungvum og Rijmum. Ur H. Ritningu. Fyrer utan[n] Þad Hun er nu lijted aukin[n] med faa einum Kvedlingum Saal. Sr. Hallgrijms Peturssonar . . . EDITIO II (The Old Poetry/Epic-Book. Following the earlier, yet fully amended, version with the same poems, songs, psalms, hymns and rhymes from the Holy Scriptures, apart from it being slightly added to with a few couplets of the late Rev. Hallgrimur Petursson. 2nd Edition.) Selst Alment In[n]bundin[n] 48 Fiskum. (Sold generally [in] a binding for 48 Fish) Þrictt an Hoolum t Htalltadal, As Halldore Eritssyne. ANNO MDCCXLVIII ( Holar, 1748) (quarto (20 x 17 cm), unbound, pp. viii + 376 defective at the end). On subsequent editions from c.1790 the price is given in Danish silver rigsdalers. The fish referred to was the standard dried stockfish or legal fish which was at least 57cm long or one el of the Hamburg standard. Two fish were equal to one el of home spun (wool cloth). The book was printed on the Bishops press at Holar, which was until the nineteenth century the only press in Iceland. It will be used for exhibitions and teaching, along with a dried stockfish, when one can be obtained.
History note: Under Review
Method of acquisition: Given (2010-03-01) by Jónasson, Oddur
Production date: AD 1748
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Accession number: CM.97-2010
Primary reference Number: 245560
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
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Coins and Medals
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