Nuremberg · 1493 · Anton Koberger

Liber chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle)

Hartmann Schedel

The hand-coloured Ptolemaic world map, framed by the three sons of Noah and twelve wind-heads; right half of the double-page spread (leaf 00096, fol. XIII).

View of Nuremberg — The celebrated topographically detailed panorama of Nuremberg, the city of the book's printing, labelled "NUREMBERGA" (leaf 00270, fol. XCIX verso).

Imago mortis (Dance of Death) — The "Imago mortis" woodcut — Michael Wolgemut's dancing skeletons making music in a churchyard (leaf 00601, fol. CCLXIIII).

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The most ambitiously illustrated book of the incunabula period, with approximately 1,800 woodcut illustrations. A world history from Creation to 1493, it was printed simultaneously in Latin and German — one of the earliest books produced in two languages at once.

Details

Title: Liber chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle)
Author: Hartmann Schedel
Printer: Anton Koberger
Place: Nuremberg
Year: 1493
Format: f°
Language: Latin
Theme: illustration

Facsimiles

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Images

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Rar. 287 — Public Domain Mark 1.0

References

ISTC is00307000