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The Plesner 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, or early copy of, the original Saxo
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 15x13cm. It consists of one page with two written sides.


History

Found in 1877 by ''C. U. A. Plesner'' in Geheime-archive (Danish National Archives), where it was used as staple-list on
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taxman-number (skattemandtal) list of 1623. Now owned by the Royal Library of
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. It has Royal Library signature of ''Ny kgl. Saml. Fol. 570''. Correspond to page 811–813 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 459.15 – 460.24 in
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& H. Ræder's Latin version of ''Gesta Danorum'' from 1931.


See also

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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 ...
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Lassen Fragment The Lassen Fragment, is a parchment page from c. 1275. It is one of the four fragments remaining of the original, or early copy of, Saxo's Gesta Danorum. Size is 40x27 cm. It consists of one page with two written sides. History It was found 186 ...
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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 ...


References

* ''Apoteker Sibbernsens Saxobog'', C. A. Reitzels Forlag, Copenhagen, 1927. Medieval literature Danish chronicles 13th-century manuscripts 13th-century Latin books {{Denmark-hist-stub