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The Angers Fragment is four Parchment pages from ca. 1200 . It is one of the four fragments remaining of the original Saxo Gesta Danorum . This fragment is the only fragment attested to be of Saxo own handwriting. It consists of four pages with 8 written sides. It is first spoken of in Albert Lemarchand book ''Catalogue des manuscripts de la Bibliotheque d’Angers'', 1863 , page 90, in the same library were 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 abbey of Saint-Martin Des Champs in Paris . Royal Library signature: - ''Ny kgl. Saml. 4to, 869 g''. Correspond to page 24-29 in Peter Erasmus Müller Latin version of ''Gesta Danorum'' from 1839 or page 11.19 – 16.29 in Jørgen Olrik & H. Ræder's Latin version of ''Gesta Danorum'' from 1931. See also Lassen Fragment , Kall-Rasmussen Fragment , Plesner Fragment REFERENCES
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