Lassen Fragment

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Lassen Fragment, Front
Lassen Fragment, Front
Lassen Fragment, Back
Lassen Fragment, Back

Lassen Fragment. A parchment page from ca. 1275. One of the four fragments remaining of the original, or early copy of, Saxo's Gesta Danorum. Ca. 40x27 cm. It consists of one page with two written sides.

It was found 1860 in the literary remains of library-secretary G. F. Lassen, and is now owned by the Royal Library of Copenhagen.

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

Correspond to page 275-282 in Peter Erasmus Müller Latin version of Gesta Danorum from 1839 or page 152.29 – 156.14 in Jørgen Olrik & H. Ræder's Latin version of Gesta Danorum from 1931.

See also Angers Fragment, Kall-Rasmussen Fragment or Plesner Fragment

[edit] References

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