Editing Angers Fragment

[[Image:Saxo original 001.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Original [[Saxo Grammaticus|Saxo]], Angers Fragment, page 1, front]]

The '''Angers Fragment'''  (''Angersfragmentet'') are four [[parchment]] pages dating from the 12th-century. They are one of the four fragments remaining of the original {{Lang|la|[[Gesta Danorum]]}} written by [[Saxo Grammaticus]]. This is the only fragment attested to be of Saxo's own handwriting. It consists of four pages with 8 written sides.
<ref>{{cite web|url=  http://denstoredanske.dk/Danmarks_geografi_og_historie/Danmarks_historie/Danmark_f%C3%B8r_Reformationen/Angersfragmentet  
|title= Angersfragmentet|publisher= Den Store Danske, Gyldendal |author=Inge Skovgaard-Petersen |accessdate=December 1, 2018}}</ref>

==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]] and in 1878 exchanged to the [[Danish Royal Library]] for the manuscript charter of the [[Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs|abbey of Saint-Martin-des-Champs]] in [[Paris]]. 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 {{Lang|la|Gesta Danorum}} from 1839 and page 11.19 – 16.29 in [[Jørgen Olrik]] & H. Ræder's Latin version of {{Lang|la|Gesta Danorum}} from 1931.
<ref>{{cite web|url=  http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/manus/525/|title= NKS 869 g 4°: Saxo, Gesta Danorum, Angersfragmentet|publisher= Det Kongelige Bibliotek|accessdate=December 1, 2018}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Lassen Fragment]]
* [[Kall-Rasmussen Fragment]]
* [[Plesner Fragment]]

==References==
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==Other sources==
* ''Apoteker Sibbernsens Saxobog, C. A. Reitzels Forlag, Copenhagen, 1927.'' (Copenhagen, C. A. Reitzels Forlag.  1927)
==External links==
*Albert Lemarchand (1863) [https://archive.org/details/cataloguedesman00lemagoog/page/n8 ''Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque d'Angers''] (Angers : Impr. de Cosnier et Lachèse)
[[Category:1200s books]]
[[Category:12th-century books in Latin]]
[[Category:Chronicles about Denmark]]
[[Category:12th-century manuscripts]]


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