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2) Ms. ”Danorum Gesta post Chronica Saxonis facta” = UBB de la Gardie 37 fol. = Acts of the
Danes after Saxos Chronicle (86 folia) or ”Paraleipomena chronicorum” Gl.KS 2461,4 o =
Excerpts of the Cronicles (92 folia).
These manuscripts have never been edited as a whole. ”Collectanea” is as mentioned a notebook
with a very complicated codicological and textual structure (Jørgensen 1920, Rasmussen 1976).
The little volume for historical notes, copies and excerpts has when needed successively been
supplemented with extra pages or loose slips. The texts often consist of an original layer
supplemented with additions between the lines and in the margins, and are in some cases not in
Peder Olsens own hand. This character of ”Collectanea” as an aid or a tool for further studies
has made the work of the editors extremely difficult, and their editions are not always
satisfactory. – The ”Danorum Gesta” is at the other hand a well composed and coherent text,
treating the Danish history from 1191 – 1559. But is has been left forgotten and almost unedited
with the doubtful motive, that it mainly consists of materials, already known from other sources!
From ”Collectanea” J. Langebek and the other editors of ”Scriptores rerum danicarum” selected
and edited different fragments and in the most cases invented their titles. This work was in the
20. Century continued by the editors of mediæval annals, Ellen Jørgensen and Erik Kroman.
POs contributions to the history of the Franciscan Order was edited a second time by M. Cl.
Gertz in ”Scriptores minores”. A little fragment of ”Danorum Gesta” and the whole of its
Danish popularization, ”Roskilde-årbogen”, was in the 19. Century edited by H.F. Rørdam. –
In the following the partial editions of ”Collectanea” are first mentioned in their chronological
order with a roughly indication of their place in the manuscript. But this is only meant as a
survey; detailed problems cannot be discussed here.
1. ”Series et brevior historia regum Danie” SRD I, 1772, 64-68 = Coll. fol. 38. – Cfr. edition
by Gertz = nr. 16.
2. ”Chronica regum danorum , a Dano ad obitum Johannis regis”. SRD I, 1772, 68-148 = Coll.
fol. 1-39 and 68-91 (with many omissions and without the marginal notes)
3. ”Annales rerum danicarum a Cimbrorum exitu ad An. Chr. 1541”. SRD I, 1772, 171-197 =
Coll. 9-39 and 68-91 (insertions and marginal notes).
4. ”Anonymi Roskildensis Chronica Danicum ab An. 826 – 1157”. SRD I, 1772, 373-387 =
Coll. fol. 145-159 (copy by P.O.) – New edition by Gertz, vgl. Nr. 15.
5. ”Excerpta Normannica et Danica ab An. 841 ad 1050”. SRD II, 1773, 10-17 = Coll. fol. 33-
34 and 36 (partially).
6. ”Excerpta ex historicis Danorum, a Suenone Tiugskæg ad Ericum Menved”. SRD II, 1773,
203 - 265 = Coll. fol. 40-66.
7. ”Historia Martyrizationis S. Kanuti regis”. SRD III, 1774, 322-325 = Coll. fol. 8-9. Cfr.
commentaries by Gertz in: Vita Sanctorum Danorum, 1912, 51-53.
8. ”Historia de inchoatione et propagatione ordinis fratrum minorum in Dania et regionibus
septentrionalibus”. SRD V, 1783, 511-528 = Coll. fol. 106-121. - Cfr. edition by Gertz, Nr.
17.
9. ”Historia mirabilium in Ecclesia B. Petri Slesvici factorum”. SRD V, 1783, 581-582 = Coll.
fol. 75.
PETRUS OLAI (OFM) by Jørgen Nybo Rasmussen
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