NKS 570 2°: Saxo, Gesta Danorum, fragmenta recentiora

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NKS 570 2°: Saxo, Gesta Danorum, fragmenta recentiora

Parchment, 2 pieces + 1 leaf + 1 piece; Denmark, c. 1300

In NKS 570 2° the following fragments have been gathered:

IA + IB: "Kall Rasmussen's fragment", two pieces of one leaf, 18,9 × 11,5 + 18,6 × 11,9 cm. With lacunae the 2 pieces contain the text VII.i.1–7 + VII.i.7-ii.3 ("rege siwardo ... potituros uouerunt" + "uidentur. A quibus ... populo honoribus". Found in the Danish National Archives by staff member M.N.C. Kall Rasmussen on March 22nd 1855 as part of the cover of archival papers from Kronborg from May 1627 to May 1628. Transferred to the Royal Library in 1891

II: "Lassen's fragment", one leaf from the same codex, 39,7 × 27,4 cm. The leaf contains the text VI.v.5–17 ("in commune ... corpus dissecuit"). Found in the Royal Library among papers left by staff member G.F. Lassen (died January 19th 1860). There are no written records of its previous use

III: "Plesner's fragment", one piece of another codex, 15 × 12,6 cm. With lacunae the fragment contains the text XIV.xxxv.4-xxxvi.1 + XIV.xxxvi.3-4 ("usum haberet ... e portu huliuminensi" + "modum estus ... curiosius perlustrandam"). Found in the Danish National Archives by staff member C.U.A. Plesner in 1877 as part of the cover of archival papers from Kristianstad from 1623. Transferred to the Royal Library in 1891

The fragments were numbered I - III (according to the chronology of their discovery) by a librarian in the latter part of the 20th Century

Bibl.: Ellen Jørgensen, Catalogus codicum Latinorum medii ævi Bibliothecæ Regiæ Hafniensis, Hafniæ 1926, p. 404f. - J. Olrik in: Saxonis Gesta Danorum, I, edd. J. Olrik & H. Ræder, Hauniæ 1931, prolegomena p. XIV, XXXIIf. & passim. - Corpus codicum Danicorum medii aevi, Vol. 4, Chronica, Hafniae 1962, ed. Erik Kroman, p. XV-XVII + 39-43. - Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum. Danmarkshistorien, latinsk tekst udgivet af Karsten Friis-Jensen, dansk oversættelse ved Peter Zeeberg, 1, København 2005, p. 11f. - Michael Gullick, Paleographical Observations on Four Medieval Fragments of the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus in The Royal Library, Fund og Forskning, 50, 2011, p. 65-77

Erik Petersen