The Lassen Fragment, is a
parchment
Parchment is a writing material made from specially prepared untanned skins of animals—primarily sheep, calves, and goats. It has been used as a writing medium for over two millennia. Vellum is a finer quality parchment made from the skins of ...
page from c. 1275. It is one of the four fragments remaining of the original, or early copy of,
Saxo's
Gesta Danorum
''Gesta Danorum'' ("Deeds of the Danes") is a patriotic work of Danish history, by the 12th-century author Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Literate", literally "the Grammarian"). It is the most ambitious literary undertaking of medieval Denmark an ...
. Size is 40x27 cm. It consists of one page with two written sides.
History
It was found 1860 in the
literary remains
The literary estate of a deceased author consists mainly of the copyright and other intellectual property rights of published works, including film, translation rights, original manuscripts of published work, unpublished or partially completed w ...
of library-secretary ''G. F. Lassen'', and is now owned by the
Royal Library of
Copenhagen
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. It has Royal Library signature of ''Ny kgl. Saml. Fol. 570''.
Correspond to page 275–282 in
Peter Erasmus Müller
Peter Erasmus Müller (29 May 1776 – 4 September 1834), was a Danish historian, linguist, theologian, and bishop of the Diocese of Zealand from 1830 until his death.
Career
Müller studied at the University of Copenhagen, where he passed his th ...
Latin version of ''Gesta Danorum'' from 1839 or page 152.29 – 156.14 in
Jørgen Olrik
Jørgen is a Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese masculine given name cognate to George
People with the given name Jørgen
* Jørgen Aall (1771–1833), Norwegian ship-owner and politician
* Jørgen Andersen (1886–1973), Norwegian gymnast
* Jørgen ...
& H. Ræder's Latin version of ''Gesta Danorum'' from 1931.
See also
*
Angers Fragment
The Angers Fragment (''Angersfragmentet'') are four parchment pages from dating from the 12th-century. They are one of the four fragments remaining of the original written by Saxo Grammaticus. This the only fragment attested to be of Saxo's own ...
*
Kall-Rasmussen Fragment
The Kall-Rasmussen Fragment is a parchment page from . It is one of the four fragments remaining, or early copy of, the original Saxo's Gesta Danorum. Its size is about 19x11cm. It consists of two pages with four written sides.
History
Found in ...
*
Plesner Fragment
The Plesner Fragment is a parchment page from c. 1275. It is one of the four fragments remaining, or early copy of, the original Saxo Gesta Danorum. Size is 15x13cm. It consists of one page with two written sides.
History
Found in 1877 by ''C. ...
References
* ''Apoteker Sibbernsens Saxobog'', C. A. Reitzels Forlag, Copenhagen, 1927.
13th-century Latin books
Danish chronicles
13th-century manuscripts
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