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Hartmann Schedel - Liber Chronicarum, 1493 - Folium CCL - Old and modern graphics for sale

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Schedel, Hartmann (1440-1514). "(Folium) CCL". A leaf from Schedel's Liber Chronicarum (also Nuremberg Chronicle). Published by A. Koberger in Nuremberg, 1493. With a total of 4 woodcuts by M. Wolgemut. 46,5:31 cm.

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Schedel, Hartmann

Wolgemut, Michael

Anton Koberger

Nuremberg

1493

Schedel, Hartmann (1440-1514). "(Folium) CCL". A leaf from Schedel's Liber Chronicarum (also Nuremberg Chronicle). Published by A. Koberger in Nuremberg, 1493. With a total of 4 woodcuts by M. Wolgemut (recto Vladislaus II of Hungary and the comet, now known as Comet 12P/Pons–Brooks; verso Popes Pius II and Paul II). 46,5:31 cm (18 1/4 x 12 1/4 inch).

 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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