The Lassen Fragment, is a
parchment
Parchment is a writing material made from specially prepared Tanning (leather), untanned skins of animals—primarily sheep, calves and goats. It has been used as a writing medium in West Asia and Europe for more than two millennia. By AD 400 ...
page from c. 1275. It is one of the four fragments remaining of the original, or early copy of,
Saxo's
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 and is an essentia ...
. Size is 40x27 cm. It consists of one page with two written sides.
History
It was found 1860 in the
literary remains 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 t ...
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
*
Plesner Fragment
References
* ''Apoteker Sibbernsens Saxobog'', C. A. Reitzels Forlag, Copenhagen, 1927.
13th-century books in Latin
Chronicles about Denmark
13th-century manuscripts
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