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Hartmann Schedel - Liber Chronicarum, 1493 - Folium CXXXV View larger

Hartmann Schedel - Liber Chronicarum, 1493 - Folium CXXXV

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Schedel, Hartmann (1440-1514). "Folium CXXXV" from his Liber Chronicarum (also Nuremberg Chronicle). Published by A. Koberger in Nuremberg, 1493. With a total of 10 woodcuts (ca. year 400 - saints - Jerome of Stridon (old coloured!), John Chrysostom and others, Alaric I, first king of the Visigoths, and the First Council of Constantinople) by M. Wolgemut. A leaf 46:31 cm.

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Schedel, Hartmann

Anton Koberger

Nuremberg

1493

Schedel, Hartmann (1440-1514). "Folium CXXXV" from his Liber Chronicarum (also Nuremberg Chronicle). Published by A. Koberger in Nuremberg, 1493. With a total of 10 woodcuts (ca. year 400 - saints - Jerome of Stridon (old coloured!), John Chrysostom and others, Alaric I, first king of the Visigoths, and the First Council of Constantinople) by M. Wolgemut. A leaf 46:31 cm (18 1/4 x 12 1/4 inch).

Old minor water stains visible, otherwise nice, full impression. - Michael Wolgemut (also Wohlgemuth; 1434, Nuremberg - 1519 ibidem) was a German painter and graphic artist, in whose workshop Albrecht Dürer also studied. - The richly illustrated chronicle was published in Latin and German in 1493 and is one of the most beautiful and valuable incunabula. There are a total of 1,800 woodcuts on the foil pages. The text of the Chronicle deals with the history of the world, which is divided into seven periods since the creation of the world.

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