Opera Hrosuite, illustris virginis et monialis germane, gente Saxionica orte : nuper a Conrado Celte inuenta.
1501
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Title
Opera Hrosuite, illustris virginis et monialis germane, gente Saxionica orte : nuper a Conrado Celte inuenta.
Uniform title
Works. 1501
Created/published
Impressum Norunbergae : Sub priuilegio Sodalitatis Celticae a Senatu Rhomani Imperii impetrato, anno Christi quingentesimoprimo supra millesimum [1501]
Description
[164] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Note
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-k⁸.
Illustrations: 8 full-page woodcuts. The 1st (showing Celtis presenting this book to Friedrich, Elector of Saxony) and the 2nd (showing Hrosvita presenting her work to Emperor Otto the Great) derive from sketches by Albrecht Dürer, but were not cut by him. The remaining 6 serve as title ill. to the 6 "comedies." They have been ascribed in the past to various artists but are mostly probably by Hans von Kulmbach; see Meister um Albrecht Dürer.
"In hoc libro haec co[n]tinent[ur]. Comedie sex in emulatio[n]em Therencii. Prima Galli[c]anus. Secunda Dulcicius. Tercia Callimachus. Quarta Abraham. Quinta Paffnucius. Sexta Fides & Spes. Octto sacrae hystorie uersu hexa. & pe[n]tha. Hystoria beate Marie uirginis. Hystoria Resurrectionis Domini. Hystoria & uita Sancti Gandolfi. Hystoria Sancti Pelagii. Hystoria co[n]uersionis Sancti Theophili. Hystoria Proterii & Sancti Basilii. Hystoria passionis Sancti Dyonisii. Hystoria passionis Sancte Agnetis. Panegiricus uersu hexametro in laude[m] & gesta Oddonis magni primi in Germania imp[er]atoris."
Device at colophon: initials: A P; Pr 11028; Colophon reads slightly differently from copy described in Murray, C.F. German books, no. 220.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-k⁸.
Illustrations: 8 full-page woodcuts. The 1st (showing Celtis presenting this book to Friedrich, Elector of Saxony) and the 2nd (showing Hrosvita presenting her work to Emperor Otto the Great) derive from sketches by Albrecht Dürer, but were not cut by him. The remaining 6 serve as title ill. to the 6 "comedies." They have been ascribed in the past to various artists but are mostly probably by Hans von Kulmbach; see Meister um Albrecht Dürer.
"In hoc libro haec co[n]tinent[ur]. Comedie sex in emulatio[n]em Therencii. Prima Galli[c]anus. Secunda Dulcicius. Tercia Callimachus. Quarta Abraham. Quinta Paffnucius. Sexta Fides & Spes. Octto sacrae hystorie uersu hexa. & pe[n]tha. Hystoria beate Marie uirginis. Hystoria Resurrectionis Domini. Hystoria & uita Sancti Gandolfi. Hystoria Sancti Pelagii. Hystoria co[n]uersionis Sancti Theophili. Hystoria Proterii & Sancti Basilii. Hystoria passionis Sancti Dyonisii. Hystoria passionis Sancte Agnetis. Panegiricus uersu hexametro in laude[m] & gesta Oddonis magni primi in Germania imp[er]atoris."
Device at colophon: initials: A P; Pr 11028; Colophon reads slightly differently from copy described in Murray, C.F. German books, no. 220.
Cited/described in
Murray, C.F. German, 210
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Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
Germany -- Nuremberg.
Call number
BT453 .H7 1503 copy 2 Cage
Folger-specific note
In half pigskin (blind-tooled) over wooden boards; clasps (one working). Manuscript title on front cover. Some woodcuts partially and crudely outlined in red ink. Underscoring, annotations, and manicules in red ink. Bound with: Rabanus, Maurus. Magnencij Rabani Mauri de laudi[bus] Sancte Crucis opus. Phorçheim : In aedibus Thom[ae] Anshelmi, 1503.
Folger accession
cs1828