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Lassen Fragment
Lassen Fragment. A parchment page from ca. 1275. One of the four fragments remaining of the original, or early copy of, Saxo's Gesta Danorum. Ca. 40x27 cm.
It consists on 1 page with 2 written sides.
It was found 1860 in the literary remains of library-secretary G.F.Lassen and is now owned by the Royal Library of Copenhagen.
Royal Library signature: - Ny kgl. Saml. Fol. 570
Correspond to page 275-282 in Peter Erasmus Müller 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, Lassen Fragment, Kall-Rasmussen Fragment or Plesner Fragment
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