The Angers Fragment (''Angersfragmentet'') are four
parchment
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pages dating from the 12th-century. They are one of the four fragments remaining of the original written by
Saxo Grammaticus
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. This is the only fragment attested to be of Saxo's own handwriting. It consists of four pages with 8 written sides.
History
It is first spoken of in
Albert Lemarchand's book ''Catalogue des manuscripts de la Bibliothèque d'Angers'',(1863, page 90), in the same library where it had been used as binding for an old book from the 15th century. First identified in 1877, by
Gaston Paris
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and in 1878 exchanged to the
Danish Royal Library for the manuscript charter of the
abbey of Saint-Martin-des-Champs in
Paris
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. It has the Royal Library signature of ''Ny kgl. Saml. 4to, 869 g''. The text corresponds to pages 24-29 in
Peter Erasmus Müller Latin version of from 1839 and page 11.19 – 16.29 in
Jørgen Olrik & H. Ræder's Latin version of from 1931.
See also
*
Lassen Fragment
*
Kall-Rasmussen Fragment
*
Plesner Fragment
References
Other sources
* ''Apoteker Sibbernsens Saxobog, C. A. Reitzels Forlag, Copenhagen, 1927.'' (Copenhagen, C. A. Reitzels Forlag. 1927)
External links
*Albert Lemarchand (1863
''Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque d'Angers''(Angers : Impr. de Cosnier et Lachèse)
1200s books
12th-century books in Latin
Chronicles about Denmark
12th-century manuscripts
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