Hroswitha offers her Book to Emperor Otto I, plate 2 from Opera Hroswitha Illustris (M., Holl. 243, ill. works XIV, no. 2; S.M.S. 268.2)

Albrecht Dürer Hroswitha offers her Book to Emperor Otto I, plate 2 from Opera Hroswitha Illustris (M., Holl. 243, ill. works XIV, no. 2; S.M.S. 268.2) woodcut, 1501, a fine impression of this rare print, from the first book edition, with text verso, before the word Vernerus in the first line was changed to Vernerius in the second edition, published by Sodalitas Celtica (Conrad Celtis), Nuremberg, 1501, watermark Gothic P with a Flower (M. 321), the full sheet, with wide margins, some light soiling and a few small pale foxmarks in the margins, otherwise in excellent original condition B. 218 x 147 mm., S. 294 x 200 mm.