Editing Plesner Fragment

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The '''Plesner Fragment''' is a [[parchment]] page from {{ca}} 1275. It is one of the four fragments remaining, or early copy of, the original [[Saxo Grammaticus|Saxo]] [[Gesta Danorum]]. Its size is 15{{nbsp}}cm × 13{{nbsp}}cm. It consists of one page with two written sides.

==History==
The fragment was found in 1877 by C. U. A. Plesner in [[Geheime-archive]] (Danish National Archives), where it was used as staple-list on [[Kristianstad]] [[fief]] taxman-number (skattemandtal) list of 1623.

The fragment is now owned by the [[Danish Royal Library]] in [[Copenhagen]]. It has Royal Library signature of ''Ny kgl. Saml. Fol. 570''.

The pages correspond to page 811–813 in [[Peter Erasmus Müller]] Latin version of ''Gesta Danorum'' from 1839 or page 459.15 – 460.24 in [[Jørgen Olrik]] and H. Ræder's Latin version of ''Gesta Danorum'' from 1931.

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

==References==
* ''Apoteker Sibbernsens Saxobog'', C. A. Reitzels Forlag, Copenhagen, 1927.

[[Category:Medieval literature]]
[[Category:Chronicles about Denmark]]
[[Category:13th-century manuscripts]]
[[Category:13th-century books in Latin]]


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