#nuremberg chronicle

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Astronomical Diagram found in the Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) of 1493.

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Bishop Hatto, illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493

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Devil and Woman on Horseback. Hand-colored woodcut print from the Nuremberg Chronicle - 1493.

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Michel Wolgemut, The Sacrifice of Abraham and Isaac (1493)

From the German edition of Hartmann Schedel, Liber Cronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle)

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Book 558

Chronicle of the World: The Complete and Annotated Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493

Hartmann Schedel

Taschen 2001

It’s unclear when Schedel actually began work on the Nuremberg Chronicle, but it was completed in 1493. Schedel, a scholar, humanist, doctor, and book collector (an inventory of his library from 1498 listed an astonishing 370 manuscripts and 670 printed books), wrote the Chronicle in Latin as the Liber Chronicarum ("Book of Chronicles"). (Although it should be mentioned that some scholars estimate that only 10% of it is original writing and that 90% of the book is plagiarized from other sources.) An early example of a printed book, or incunabulum, the Chronicle is a philosophical and historical encyclopedia of the history of the world in relation to the Bible, including histories of important Christian and secular cities from antiquity. A gorgeous early example of the synthesis of illustrations and the printed word, this Taschen facsimile edition is a stunning book. Covered in a suede-like material and at a substantial size, it is a reprint of a copy held by the Stiftung Weimarer Klassik.

Interestingly, the prestige and success of the Chronicle led to one of the first large-scale pirated editions, which first appeared in Augsburg starting in 1496.

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From the Liber Chronicarum, also known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel, illustrated by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, published in Nuremberg, 1493.  The Illustration of Bede is on page 158v.

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Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)