NUREMBERG CHRONICLE.SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber chronicarum [in German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. Imperial folio (472 x 325 mm). 297 leaves (of 298, without final blank). 59-64 lines and headline, table and parts of the text in two columns. Types: 24:111G (text), 9:165G (headlines), c. 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks by Michael Wolgemut Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Dürer comprising 29 double-page town views, 8 full-page woodcuts and double-page maps of the World [Shirley 19] and of Europe by Hieronymus Münzer after Nicolas Khrypffs. Contemporary Nuremberg pigskin over wooden boards, stained pink, ruled and stamped in blind, upper cover lettered in German: "Cronica von anfang der welt" ["Chronical of the beginning of the world"] brass clasps and catch-plates. Some minor marginal tears and occasional light staining, a few leaves (138-150) with repair to inner margins slightly affecting woodcuts or text, leaf 281 loose, spine ends neatly repaired. Provenance: Georg Frauenlob Landt, gift inscription to Wolfgang Häberl, dated 18 August 1599 (first numbered leaf verso); Häberl, Wolfgang (*1553) from Berchtesgaden, Pastor of the parish church of St. Martin in Thalgau, and motto dated 1595 (inscription "Sum ex libris Wolfgangi Häberl Berchtersgadiam / Ecclesiae parochialis S. Martini in Talgeio Pastoris. / Honesti cultor uirtute content. 1599" on title page). FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN of the Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in the same year as the Latin edition. The German and Latin editions were planned simultaneously, with the German edition of Georg Alt's translation appearing five months after the Latin edition. A TALL COPY of the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century. The 29 large double-page city views, many illustrated for the first time, are accurate in depicting distinguished features of each city. In addition, it includes many details of 15th-century daily life: carpenters with their tools, astronomers and their instruments, a chess player, archers, bridges, derricks, dishes, furniture, windmills, ships, beds, houses, fortifications, weapons, tents, wharves, ferries, books, drawing materials, dogs, horses, and other animals, as well as costumes. Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle epitomizes "the commercial sophistication, economic power and technical virtuosity that brought the art of print to this extraordinary climax" (Pettegree). Reference: BMC II 437; BSB-Ink. S-197; Bod-Inc. S-110; Goff S-309; GW M40796; HC *14510; Pettegree, The Book in the Renaissance, New Haven, 2011 p. 42; Reske, The Production of Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle Wiesbaden, 2000; Ellen Shaffer The Nuremberg Chronicle, Los Angeles, 1950; Wilson, The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle Amsterdam, 1976.
NUREMBERG CHRONICLE.SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber chronicarum [in German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. Imperial folio (472 x 325 mm). 297 leaves (of 298, without final blank). 59-64 lines and headline, table and parts of the text in two columns. Types: 24:111G (text), 9:165G (headlines), c. 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks by Michael Wolgemut Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Dürer comprising 29 double-page town views, 8 full-page woodcuts and double-page maps of the World [Shirley 19] and of Europe by Hieronymus Münzer after Nicolas Khrypffs. Contemporary Nuremberg pigskin over wooden boards, stained pink, ruled and stamped in blind, upper cover lettered in German: "Cronica von anfang der welt" ["Chronical of the beginning of the world"] brass clasps and catch-plates. Some minor marginal tears and occasional light staining, a few leaves (138-150) with repair to inner margins slightly affecting woodcuts or text, leaf 281 loose, spine ends neatly repaired. Provenance: Georg Frauenlob Landt, gift inscription to Wolfgang Häberl, dated 18 August 1599 (first numbered leaf verso); Häberl, Wolfgang (*1553) from Berchtesgaden, Pastor of the parish church of St. Martin in Thalgau, and motto dated 1595 (inscription "Sum ex libris Wolfgangi Häberl Berchtersgadiam / Ecclesiae parochialis S. Martini in Talgeio Pastoris. / Honesti cultor uirtute content. 1599" on title page). FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN of the Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in the same year as the Latin edition. The German and Latin editions were planned simultaneously, with the German edition of Georg Alt's translation appearing five months after the Latin edition. A TALL COPY of the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century. The 29 large double-page city views, many illustrated for the first time, are accurate in depicting distinguished features of each city. In addition, it includes many details of 15th-century daily life: carpenters with their tools, astronomers and their instruments, a chess player, archers, bridges, derricks, dishes, furniture, windmills, ships, beds, houses, fortifications, weapons, tents, wharves, ferries, books, drawing materials, dogs, horses, and other animals, as well as costumes. Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle epitomizes "the commercial sophistication, economic power and technical virtuosity that brought the art of print to this extraordinary climax" (Pettegree). Reference: BMC II 437; BSB-Ink. S-197; Bod-Inc. S-110; Goff S-309; GW M40796; HC *14510; Pettegree, The Book in the Renaissance, New Haven, 2011 p. 42; Reske, The Production of Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle Wiesbaden, 2000; Ellen Shaffer The Nuremberg Chronicle, Los Angeles, 1950; Wilson, The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle Amsterdam, 1976.
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