SAXO GRAMMATICUS:

Den Danske Krönicke

      . som Saxo Grammaticus screff, halffierde hundrede Aar forleden: Nu först aff Latinen udsaet, flittelige offuerseet oc forbedret, Aff Anders Söffrinssön Vedel. Kbhvn.: Hans Stöckelman oc Guttervitz 1575. Med det danske rigsvabenpa titelbladet samt portraet af kong Frederik II pa bagsiden, skaret i trae.Det halve titelblad og det halve bald D i fotokopi. Fol. (36) + DXLVII + (32) s., ialt 308 blade. Senere helldr. (18. arh.) med raparation pa forperm. Gl. n.p.t. Med enkelte gl. noter i margin. En del blade med vandskjold. Smaskavanker rep. Titlepage (partly in photo-copy, as well as leaf D) with print of the Danish coat-of-arms and on verson a woodcut of King Frederich II. 308 leaves. Later full leather (18th cent.), Old name on titlepage. With a few old notes in margin. Some leaves waterstained. * Den mest sjaeldne Saxo-udgave. Förste trykte oversaettelse til dansk - Anders Sörensen Vedels oversaettelses-arbejde gjorde, at Den danske Krönike naede ud til et bredt publikum. Christiern Pedersen havde tidligere lavet en oversaettelse, men hans manuskript blev aldrig trykt og braendte i 1728 sammen med resten af universitetsbiblioteket i Köbenhavn. Kun ca. 40 ekspl. eksisterer i dag af bogen, og de fleste af dem er ukomplette, idet den er blevet grundigt laest gennem mange generationer og saledes slidt op. The most rare of Saxo editions. The first printed translation into Danish - Anders Sörensen Vedels great work with the translation made the book reach a larger amount of readers. Christiern Pedersen had made an earlier translation but his manuscript was never printed and burned in 1728 with the rest of the University Library in Copenhagen. Only about 40 copies of the book exists today, and most of them are not complete, since it was so thoroughly read through generations that it fell apart. Eksemplar med nogen brugsspor. Bibl. Dan. III, 10. Thesaurus 205. Lauritz Nielsen 1451. Birkelund 30..