The Kall-Rasmussen Fragment is a parchment

Parchment

Parchment is a thin material made from calfskin, sheepskin or goatskin, often split. Its most common use was as a material for writing on, for documents, notes, or the pages of a book, codex or manuscript. It is distinct from leather in that parchment is limed but not tanned; therefore, it is very...

 page from c.

Circa

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 1275. It is one of the four fragments remaining, or early copy of, of the original Saxo's Gesta Danorum

Gesta Danorum

Gesta Danorum is a patriotic work of Danish history, by the 12th century author Saxo Grammaticus . It is the most ambitious literary undertaking of medieval Denmark and is an essential source for the nation's early history...

. Its size is about 19x11cm. It consists of two pages with four written sides.

History

Found in 1855 by M. N. C. Kall Rasmussen in the Danish Geheime-archive

Danish National Archives

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 (Danish National Archives), where it was used as staple-list on Kronborg Castles cadastre

Cadastre

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 of 1627-1628. It is now owned by the Royal Library

Danish Royal Library

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 of Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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. It has the Royal Library signature of Ny kgl. Saml. Fol. 570.

Correspond to page 320-324 in Peter Erasmus Müller

Peter Erasmus Müller

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 Latin version of Gesta Danorum from 1839 or page 181.17 – 184.16 in Jørgen Olrik & H. Ræder's Latin version of Gesta Danorum from 1931.