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Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Imperial folio , 452 x 305 mm. (460 x 315 with binding). & Nbsp; 328 cc., (Including the white ones), 1809 woodcut illustrations impressed by 645 wooden-blocks (cfr. SC Cockerell's count, Some German woodcuts of the fifteenth century , & nbsp; Kelmscott Press, & nbsp; 1897, pp. 35-6), work by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and workshop, including Albrecht Dürer (5 etchings), Lombard letters, drop caps, reddening and marginals fioriture, 16th century Dutch binding in full parchment with large lozenge on the plates, on the back title in golden letters on a green gusset, slight crack at the hinge of the upper plate. Some marginal annotations from the sixteenth century.
HC * 14508; BMC II, 437 (IC. 7451-3); Polain (B) 3469; CIBN S-161; BSB-Ink. S-195; Bod-Inc. S-108; Schreiber 5203; Goff S-307.
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The history of the publication of the Nuremberg Chronicle is perhaps the best documented of any printed book of that period. Not only the contracts between Schedel and his financial partners Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermaister, and Schedel and the artists survive in the Stadtsbibliothek in Nuremberg, but also the manuscript specimens used as model copies for the Latin and German editions. The two editions were designed at the same time, each with its own new specially designed typeface and both enriched by the same woodcuts; the Latin edition preceded the German one by about 5 months. Albrecht Dürer, Koberger's godson, is believed to have worked on the woodcuts, as he was Wolgemut's apprentice from 1486 to 1489. (see A. Wilson, The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle, Amsterdam, 1976.)
Celebrated for its beautiful and abundant woodcut illustrations, the Nuremberg Chronicle includes two important double-page maps: a world map (Shirley 19) based on the Cosmographia of Mela (1482) and a map of Northern Europe and central by Hieronymus Münzer (1437-1508) by Nicolas Khyrpffs. The World Map is one of only three 15th century maps showing Portuguese knowledge of the Gulf of Guinea around 1470. The map of Europe is closely associated with Nicola di Cusa's Eichstätt map, with which it is thought to share a common manuscript source dating from around 1439-'54. It can therefore be said that it is the first modern map of this region to appear in print. Although published later than the map of Germany present in the Ptolemy of Ulm of 1482, it was actually made earlier. Doctor and humanist (Nuremberg 1440 - there 1514) Schedel studied in Leipzig and Padua; but then he devoted himself not only to medicine, but also to studies of geography, language and art, and put together a remarkable library.
Northern and Central Europe by Hieronymus Münzer (1437-1508) by Nicolas Khyrpffs. The World Map is one of only three 15th century maps showing Portuguese knowledge of the Gulf of Guinea around 1470. The map of Europe is closely associated with Nicola di Cusa's Eichstätt map, with which it is thought to share a common manuscript source dating from around 1439-'54. It can therefore be said that it is the first modern map of this region to appear in print. Although published later than the 1482 Ptolemy of Ulm map of Germany, it was actually made earlier.
Doctor and humanist (Nuremberg 1440 - therein 1514) Schedel studied at Leipzig and Padua; but then he devoted himself not only to medicine, but also to studies of geography, language and art, and put together a remarkable library.