SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum , in German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten mit figuren und pildnussen . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 23 December 1493. Imperial 2° (435 x 300mm). Collation: [1 1 0 2 6 3-5 4 6-9 6 10 2 11 4 12-14 15 2 16-17 6 18-23 4 24-27 6 28 2 29 6 30 4 31-33 6 34 2 35 4 36-50 6 51-52 4 53-56 6 57 2] (1/1r title, verso blank, 1/2r table, 2/1r text, 56/6 blank, 57/1v-2r map of Europe, 57v colophon). 297 leaves (of 298, without 56/6 blank). Table and parts of the text in two columns, 59-64 lines and headline. Types: 24:111G (text), 9:165G (headlines). Calligraphic woodcut title, 3- to 6-line initial spaces in table, one 9-line initial space on 2/1r, printed initials elsewhere. 645 woodcuts in many different sizes, repeated to a total of over 1800 illustrations, by Michael Wolgemut Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop (including the young Albrecht DüRER , the woodcuts including 29 double-page town views, 8 full-page cuts, a world map and a map of Europe by Hieronymus Münzer after Nicolas Khrypffs. (Occasional marginal tears and several neat repairs, small paper flaw to 46/6r not affecting text, marginal dampstaining in several leaves, some light spotting, particularly to map of Europe, map of Europe on guard.) 18th-century blindstamped pigskin over thick wooden boards, brass central boss and ornamental cornerpieces presumably transferred from the original binding, title tooled in panel on upper cover (cracks at spine, some scratch marks and scuffing, without two fore-edge clasps). Provenance : manuscript annotations dated 1636 by Christoff Mayer, an official of the Holy Roman Empire, including a poem written by him after the colophon on 57/2v, further manuscript notes and rhyming prayer, dated 24 December 1642 -- Vienna, Benedictine Schottenkloster library (manuscript note by brother Henricus Wispauer, dated 1740, later stamp). FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN OF THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. Koberger published Georg Alt's German translation of Schedel's world history five months after his Latin edition, using the same woodcuts with a few minor variations. The German edition is considerably rarer on the market than the Latin. The original designs for the complicated lay-out of both editions have survived. In this fine copy the passage on Pope Joan (fo. CLXIX verso) is censored with a dark wash. H *14510; BMC II, 437 (IC.7458); Klebs 890.1; Polain(B) 3471; Schreiber 5205; Goff S-309.
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum , in German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten mit figuren und pildnussen . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 23 December 1493. Imperial 2° (435 x 300mm). Collation: [1 1 0 2 6 3-5 4 6-9 6 10 2 11 4 12-14 15 2 16-17 6 18-23 4 24-27 6 28 2 29 6 30 4 31-33 6 34 2 35 4 36-50 6 51-52 4 53-56 6 57 2] (1/1r title, verso blank, 1/2r table, 2/1r text, 56/6 blank, 57/1v-2r map of Europe, 57v colophon). 297 leaves (of 298, without 56/6 blank). Table and parts of the text in two columns, 59-64 lines and headline. Types: 24:111G (text), 9:165G (headlines). Calligraphic woodcut title, 3- to 6-line initial spaces in table, one 9-line initial space on 2/1r, printed initials elsewhere. 645 woodcuts in many different sizes, repeated to a total of over 1800 illustrations, by Michael Wolgemut Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop (including the young Albrecht DüRER , the woodcuts including 29 double-page town views, 8 full-page cuts, a world map and a map of Europe by Hieronymus Münzer after Nicolas Khrypffs. (Occasional marginal tears and several neat repairs, small paper flaw to 46/6r not affecting text, marginal dampstaining in several leaves, some light spotting, particularly to map of Europe, map of Europe on guard.) 18th-century blindstamped pigskin over thick wooden boards, brass central boss and ornamental cornerpieces presumably transferred from the original binding, title tooled in panel on upper cover (cracks at spine, some scratch marks and scuffing, without two fore-edge clasps). Provenance : manuscript annotations dated 1636 by Christoff Mayer, an official of the Holy Roman Empire, including a poem written by him after the colophon on 57/2v, further manuscript notes and rhyming prayer, dated 24 December 1642 -- Vienna, Benedictine Schottenkloster library (manuscript note by brother Henricus Wispauer, dated 1740, later stamp). FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN OF THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. Koberger published Georg Alt's German translation of Schedel's world history five months after his Latin edition, using the same woodcuts with a few minor variations. The German edition is considerably rarer on the market than the Latin. The original designs for the complicated lay-out of both editions have survived. In this fine copy the passage on Pope Joan (fo. CLXIX verso) is censored with a dark wash. H *14510; BMC II, 437 (IC.7458); Klebs 890.1; Polain(B) 3471; Schreiber 5205; Goff S-309.
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