Opera Hrosvite, illvstris virginis et monialis germane, gente Saxonica orte, nvper a Conrado Celte inventa
The Opera of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, a tenth-century Saxon canoness's Latin plays, was printed in Nuremberg in 1501 by Konrad Celtis's humanist circle, with woodcuts attributed to Hans von Kulmbach and Albrecht Dürer, for scholars and learned readers. The woodcuts are narrative scenes of saints, martyrs and courtly figures in clear black line, with dense hatching, round halos, arched Gothic interiors and crowded foreground groups that a designer might borrow for dramatic composition and expressive hand gestures.
