Staurostichon: A Poem on the Mysteries of the Lord's Cross

The text is highly fragmentary and contains significant bleed-through from the reverse page. The following is a reconstruction of the visible Latin segments.

Preface to the speech by the authority of Cicero and Fabius Capella.
He makes the auditor attentive, which persuades one to delight, and others to trust. Corrected, about causes, undecided, three are given to be done. One to demonstrate where and when it is abundant; another which applies what might be [shown] from its own chance and definition. The third intends to cut out the attenuation and defense, which one might finish in judgments, or then to be unique, which it needs; it is manifest that what it admits is not seen, or according to what it itself... It is praised or vituperated. By definition it is held, and as for the presence of the one who suspects, in all things a skilled judgment is to be placed. The authority in the city to be appealed between the adversary. The notable truth of Cicero's defenses... when Demosthenes is convicted: which the matter of Cicero... in two others, who did it... it is held by fists... it is not tolerated, then the greatest and [in] the speech it is trusted, which is not demonstrated as moral, but judicial. For all praise is conferred to the defense by authority; from this it is seen that it is needed in kind, in such a disciplined way. By arms it is repelled; this was the authority of this work.

A woodcut printer's mark inside a rectangular border. It features a central vertical flowering stem or lily. A serpent, coiled in the shape of an 'S', is entwined around the stem. At the base of the stem, two broad, wing-like leaves emerge, forming a 'V' shape. The letters 'V' and 'S' (likely for the printer Valentin Schumann) are visible flanking the central device within the shield-like composition.