[SCHEDEL, HARTMAN]
Blat CXIII. Triburtina die statt [A part of Rome] [A leaf from the Liber Chronicarum / Nüremberg Chronicle/ Weltchronik]
[Nürnberg] [Published by Anton Koberger] [1493] 45 x 28,5 cm. Several repaired worm holes. A couple of stains in the text areas. One corner dog eared. Light soiling to the margins.
¶ A beautiful incunable leaf from the german edition of the famous Nüremberg Chronicle. Some letters are coloured red. One side has a large view of Triburtina,a part of Rome, and a cut depicting Secundus philizophus. The other side shows Galienus (a doctor), Justinius Philosphus, three bishops and four other wood cuts. The Nüremberg Chronicle was first published in the summer of 1493 in latin. The german edition appeared in december of the same year. With its 1809 wood cuts the Chronicle have more illustrations than any other book of the 15th century. The book describes the history of the world from creation upp to the publishing year of 1493, The work was published in a transition age between medieval times and the renaissance which is shown by its form as an medieval chronicle but at the same time its use of classical sources, in a modern way. The images are executed by the artists Michael Wolgemut and Willhelm Pleydenwurff. Wollgemutt was the instructor of Albrecht Dürer. The chronicle is a high point of the wood cut technique.
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