Tenth-century Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
's Opera Hrosvite (both poems and plays) were first printed, following their rediscovery by Conrad Celtes or Celtis
, with a frontispiece and six further full-page wood-cuts, at least some by Albrecht Dürer
.
Gasquet, Francis Aidan et al. “Introduction”. The Plays of Roswitha, translated by. Christopher St John, Benjamin Blom, 1966, p. vii - xiii.
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Textual Production
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Renaissance humanist Conrad Celtes or Celtis
unearthed the manuscript containing the poems and plays of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
, which had been totally forgotten in the several centuries since her death.
Wilson, Katharina M. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim. E. J. Brill, 1988.
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