English: Transcription of the print's archaic German text

English: Since Christ's birth / year 1513. A[nno ]D[omin]i, on 1 May there was brought to the most puissant King Emanuel of Portugal / to Lisbon from India / just such a living animal. they call it Rhinocerus / It is reproduced here in its complete form. It has a color like a speckled turtle / and [it] is covered very securely with thick scales / and in size it is like the elephant / but shorter in the legs and very well fortified[.] it has a sharp strong horn on the front of the nose / which it takes to whetting wherever there are stones / [They say] that it is a triumphant animal / the elephants' deadly enemy. The elephant fears it terribly / because when he comes upon it / the animal runs at him with the head between the front legs / and tears the elephant's belly from beneath / and that suffocates him / who could not defend himself. for the animal is so well armed / that the elephant can do nothing to him / They also say, that the Rhinocerus / is quick / glad-tempered / and also lusty.