Kall-Rasmussen Fragment

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Kall-Rasmussen Fragment, a parchment page from ca. 1275. One of the four fragments remaining, or early copy of, of the original Saxo Gesta Danorum. Ca. 19x11cm

It consists of two pages with four written sides.

Found 1855 by M. N. C. Kall Rasmussen in Geheime-archive, where it was used as staple-list on Kronborg Castles cadastre of 1627-1628. Now owned by the Royal Library of Copenhagen.

Royal Library signature: - Ny kgl. Saml. Fol. 570

Correspond to page 320-324 in Peter Erasmus Müller Latin version of Gesta Danorum from 1839 or page 181.17 – 184.16 in Jørgen Olrik & H. Ræder's Latin version of Gesta Danorum from 1931.

See also Angers Fragment, Lassen Fragment or Plesner Fragment

[edit] References

• Apoteker Sibbernsens Saxobog, C. A. Reitzels Forlag, Copenhagen, 1927.