1493 Nuremberg Chronicle SINGLE LEAF INCUNABLE WOODCUT Man With Two Faces
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:27793644 | Language: German |
| Special Attributes: Illustrated | Original/Facsimile: Original |
| Date of Publication: 1493 | Subject: Travel |
| Binding: Unbound |
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An Original Single Leaf from the
Nuremberg Chronicles
c1493
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**Single Leaf, original (over 500 years old) with woodcut(s) 31.3cm x 21cm. Printed both sides of the leaf. German Text, Small folio.**
**With large woodcut (17cm ...x 15.5cm) to one side and another (15.1cm x 6.7cm) to the verso. The large woodcut shows a man with an elaborate key, the man having two faces, with men playing musical instruments, and farmers in the back ground plowing fields**
The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated encyclopedia comprised of world historical accounts, as well as accounts told through biblical paraphrase. Subjects include human history in relation to the bible, illustrated mythological creatures, and the histories of important Christian and secular cities from antiquity. Finished in 1493 after years in the making, it was originally written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel, and a German version was translated by Georg Alt. It is one of the best-documented early printed books—an incunabulum—and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text.
Latin scholars refer to it as Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles) as this phrase appears in the index introduction of the Latin edition. English-speakers have long referred to it as the Nuremberg Chronicle after the city in which it was published. German-speakers refer to it as Die Schedelsche Weltchronik (Schedel's World History) in honor of its author.
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