Angers Fragment
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Original Saxo, Angers Fragment, page 1, front |
The
Angers Fragment is four
parchment pages from ca.
1200. It is one of the four fragments remaining of the original
Saxo Gesta Danorum. This fragment is the only fragment attested to be of Saxo own handwriting. It consists of four pages with 8 written sides.
It is first spoken of in
Albert Lemarchand book
Catalogue des manuscripts de la Bibliotheque d'Angers,
1863, page 90, in the same library were it had been used as binding for an old book from the
15th century.
First identified in
1877, by
Gaston Paris and in
1878 exchanged to the
Danish Royal Library for the manuscript charter of the abbey of
Saint-Martin des Champs in
Paris.
Royal Library signature: -
Ny kgl. Saml. 4to, 869 g.
Correspond to page 24-29 in
Peter Erasmus Müller Latin version of
Gesta Danorum from 1839 or page 11.19 â€" 16.29 in
Jørgen Olrik & H. Ræder's Latin version of
Gesta Danorum from 1931.
See also
Lassen Fragment,
Kall-Rasmussen Fragment,
Plesner Fragment*
Apoteker Sibbernsens Saxobog, C. A. Reitzels Forlag, Copenhagen, 1927.
