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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 Bishop’s 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.

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History note: Under Review

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Method of acquisition: Given (2010-03-01) by Jónasson, Oddur

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Production date: AD 1748

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Accession number: CM.97-2010
Primary reference Number: 245560

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Created: Friday 4 September 2020 Updated: Wednesday 31 March 2021

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Coins and Medals

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