Rymbegla, sive, Rudimentum computi ecclesiastici et annalis veterum Islandorum : in qvo etiam continentur chronologica, geographica, astronomica, geometrica, theologica, nonnulla ex historia universali & naturali rariora

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Creator: qvam ex manuscriptis Legati Arna-Magnaeani versione latina, lectionum varietate, notis in materiam computisticam, indice vocum Rymbeglae propriarum, & rerum in partem historicam auxit Stephanus Biörnonis Isl. : addita sunt 1) Talbyrdingus ejusdem notis illustratus, 2) Oddi astronomi somnia, 3) Joh. Arnae & 4) Finni Johannaei Horologia
Included Titles: Talbyrðingr. Latin

Stjörnu-Odda draumr. Latin and Icelandic

Sciagraphia horologii islandici veteris et novi

Eiktamörk islendsk. Latin and Icelandic

Talburdingus

Horologium islandicum
Format: Books
Languages: Latin, Icelandic
Contributors: Stefán Björnsson, 1721-1798, editor

Jón Árnason, Bishop, 1665-1743. Sciagraphia horologii islandici veteris et novi

Finnur Jónsson, 1704-1789. Sciagraphia horologii islandici veteris et novi

Suhm, Peter Frederik, 1728-1798, publisher

Möller, C., engraver

Clemens, I. F., engraver

Holm, S. M., illustrator

Thordarson Collection
Publication: Havniae : Typis Aug. Frid. Steinii, 1780
Physical Details: 24 unnumbered pages, 574 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 28 pages, 33 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 25 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 68 pages, 32 unnumbered pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 28 cm (quarto)
OCLC: ocm02173944

Half-title has imprint: "Sumtibus illustriss. P. Fr. de Suhm."
Icelandic and Latin on opposite pages (except "Talbyrdingus" and "Sciagraphia horologii islandici veteris et novi", which are in Latin only).
Signatures: a-c⁴ A-4C⁴ (4C4 blank) ²A-C⁴ ²D² ³A-D⁴ ³[E]1 ⁴A-C⁴ ⁴D1 ⁵A-H⁴ ⁵I² ⁶A-D⁴ (2F2, 3X2, and ⁶D3 mis-signed "Ef2", "Xxx3", and "C3", respectively).
The engraved plates are signed by the engraver C. Möller, after S.M. Holm; engraved vignette on the half-title signed by I.F. Clemens.
"The name Rímbegla ... refers properly only to the first part, viz. p. 1-114 in this edition: this treatise is preserved in an Icelandic ms. of the twelfth century ... and is so called by the author, whose name is unknown."--R. Cleasby, Icelandic-English dictionary, 1874, p. xi.
Includes indexes.
Errata on ⁶D2r.
The [2] p. following p. 74 and the final page are blank.
In some copies, the indexes and explication of illustrations (⁶A-D⁴), which pertain entirely to the "Rymbegla," are bound after it (i.e. after 4C3 or 4C4).
Cornell University. Libraries. Catalogue of the Icelandic collection bequeathed by Willard Fiske, p. 489
Icelandic and Latin on opposite pages.

Rymbegla. I.-IV. partur -- Talbyrdingus -- Stiörnu Odda draumur = Somnium Odda astronomi -- Eiktamörk islendsk = Horologium islandicum -- Sciagraphia horologii islandici veteris et novi
Rymbegla. I.-IV. partur.--Talbyrdingus.--Stiörnu Odda draumur.--Eiktamörk islendsk.--Sciagraphia horologii islandici veteris et novi

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