Opera Hrosvite, illustris virginis et monialis Germane, gente Saxonico orte / nuper a Conrado Celte inventa.

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Uniform Title:Works. 1501
Main Author: Hrotsvitha, approximately 935-approximately 975
Corporate Author: Sodalitas Celtica (Nuremberg, Germany)
Other Authors: Celtis, Konrad, 1459-1508 (Editor), Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 (Illustrator), Traut, Wolf, approximately 1486-1520 (Illustrator)
Language:Latin
Published: [Nuremberg : Sodalitas Celtica, 1501]
Subjects:
Inscriptions (Provenance) > 16th century.
Marginalia (Provenance) > 16th century.
Rubrics.
Genre:
Inscriptions (Provenance)
Marginalia (Provenance)
Rubrics.
Ownership and Custodial History:
Early inscription in red on title page: "ML : om[n]ia fert [a]etas animu[m] quoque : .h. Loduig Schmid"; Latin marginalia in an early hand in a few locations throughout (some slightly cropped); underlining and paragraph marks in red in several locations throughout; underlining, bracketing, and other signs of reading in black in an early hand in several locations throughout; some capital spaces filled in with black ink.
Local Note:
MSU: Library copy follows running head setting (a) and colophon setting (b) (see note above).
Binding Information:
In later limp vellum; red sprinkled edges.
Physical Description:164 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (folio)
Format: Book
Description
Note:Colophon (leaf k8r): Impressum Norunbergae sub priuilegio Sodalitatis Celticae a Senatu Rhomani Imperii impetrato. Anno Christi quingentesimoprimo supra millesimum.
Signatures: a¹° b-k⁸.
Signatures h4-5, i, and k are found in two settings, with running heads: (a) DYONISII, AGNETIS, ODDONVM; or (b) SANCTI DYONISII., AGNETIS., OTTONVM., respectively; the colophon varies, with readings (a) Sodalitis ... impetratae, or (b) Sodalitatis ... impetrato.
Illustrations ascribed to Albrecht Dürer and Wolf Traut; according to W. Kurth (The complete woodcuts of Albrech Dürer (1927), page 23), the first two woodcuts are certainly by Dürer.
Woodcut device incorporating initials "A.P." [i.e. Aedibus Pirckheimerianis?] follows colophon.
Initial spaces, most with guide letters.
Call Number:PA8340 .A1 1501
XX folio
References:
Murray, C.F. German books, 210.
Dodgson, C. German & Flemish woodcuts, I, 261, 504.
Place of Publication:Germany -- Nuremberg