The Danish Rhymed Chronicle. Copenhagen: Gotfred of Ghemen 1495.
E2175 4º (LN 232)

Title page	Fol. i2r: On the viking king Regner Lodbrog	Fol. q6r: Printer’s postscript

The Rhymed Chronicle was the first book to be printed in Danish. It contains a collection of poems about the Danish kings – put into the mouths of the kings themselves – from the oldest legendary King Dan to Christian I. The printer Gotfred of Ghemen was Dutch. He was the first printer to settle in Copenhagen. The first book out of his printing office was a Latin grammar printed in 1489.

19 x 13.3 cm.

See the entire Rhymed Chronicle here.

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