Codex Runicus

Leaf (f. 27r.) of Codex Runicus, a vellum manuscript from c. 1300 containing one of the oldest and best preserved texts of the Scanian Law, written entirely in runes.
The last leaf (f. 100r) of the Codex Runicus manuscript with the oldest musical notation found in Scandinavia.

The Codex Runicus is a codex of 202 pages written in medieval runes around the year 1300 which includes the oldest preserved Nordic provincial law, Scanian Law (Skånske lov) pertaining to the Danish land Scania (Skåneland). Codex Runicus is one of the few runic texts found on parchment. The manuscript's initials are painted various colors and the rubrics are red. Each rune corresponds to a letter of the Latin alphabet.

The Codex Runicus has the shelfmark AM 28 8vo and is part of the Arnamagnæan Collection in the Arnamagnæan Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.[1][2]

  1. ^ AM 28 8vo – Codex runicus Archived 1999-10-02 at the Wayback Machine. Scanned version of Codex Runicus. The Arnamagnæan Institute, a teaching and research institute within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen.
  2. ^ Det Arnamagnæanske Haandskrift No 28, 8vo: Codex Runicus. Kommissionen for det Arnamagnæanske Legat, København: 1877.