SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Imperial 2° (455 x 311mm). Collation: [1-2 6 3 8 4 6 5-7 4 8-11 6 12 2 13 4 14-16 6 17 2 18-19 6 20-25 4 26-29 6 30 2 31 6 32 4 33-35 6 36 2 37 4 38-61 6]. (1/1r xylographic title-page, 1/1v blank, 1/2r index, 4/1r Creation-Ultimate Age of the World, 54/6v blank, 55/1r Sarmatian supplement, 55/5v verse on the exploits of Maximilian, 56/1r supplements to the Sixth Age and description of Europe, 61/3v-4r map of Germany, 61/4v colophon). 325 leaves (of 328, without blank fos 55/6 and 61/5-6). 64 lines and headline, table and parts of text double column, fos CCLVIIII-CCLXI blank except for printed headlines. Types: 9:165G (headlines and headings), 16:110bG (text). 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks (S.C. Cockrell's count, Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century , Kelmscott Press: 1897, pp.35-6), initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, contemporary South German ILLUMINATED INITIALS on punched-dotted burnished gold grounds on 1/2r, 8 lines, and 4/1r, 14 lines, the latter with foliate extensions. (Some light marking and browning, light marginal dampstaining in latter quires occasionally affecting text, some unobtrusive worming, that on title skillfully repaired, some skillful marginal repairs, occasionally affecting foliation, illuminated extension trimmed on 4/1r, 44/2 with small tear and hole.) Modern pigskin-backed oak boards in period style by James Brockman, 1984, spine blind-tooled in compartments, lettered in gilt, boards with bevelled edges, slipcase. Provenance : Johannus [?]Urcreus (inscription on title) -- R.L.E. von Clodtz (inscription on title) -- Franz von Umbscheiden (inscription on title, recording gift to:) -- Salent von Umbschneiden. FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE 15TH CENTURY. Albrecht Dürer godson of Koberger, was an apprentice to Wolgemut, one of the chief artists for the book, from 1486 to 1489 and almost certainly involved in the production of the woodcuts. The work was published in both Latin and German editions (of c. 2,000 copies each, the German edition appearing some five months after the Latin), and it enjoyed swift success, engendering a number of pirated editions. Cf. A. Wilson The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle , Amsterdam: 1976; BMC II, 437 (IC. 7451-3); HC *14508; Polain(B) 3469; Schramm XVII, 6-7, 9; Schreiber 5203; Goff S-307.
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Imperial 2° (455 x 311mm). Collation: [1-2 6 3 8 4 6 5-7 4 8-11 6 12 2 13 4 14-16 6 17 2 18-19 6 20-25 4 26-29 6 30 2 31 6 32 4 33-35 6 36 2 37 4 38-61 6]. (1/1r xylographic title-page, 1/1v blank, 1/2r index, 4/1r Creation-Ultimate Age of the World, 54/6v blank, 55/1r Sarmatian supplement, 55/5v verse on the exploits of Maximilian, 56/1r supplements to the Sixth Age and description of Europe, 61/3v-4r map of Germany, 61/4v colophon). 325 leaves (of 328, without blank fos 55/6 and 61/5-6). 64 lines and headline, table and parts of text double column, fos CCLVIIII-CCLXI blank except for printed headlines. Types: 9:165G (headlines and headings), 16:110bG (text). 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks (S.C. Cockrell's count, Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century , Kelmscott Press: 1897, pp.35-6), initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, contemporary South German ILLUMINATED INITIALS on punched-dotted burnished gold grounds on 1/2r, 8 lines, and 4/1r, 14 lines, the latter with foliate extensions. (Some light marking and browning, light marginal dampstaining in latter quires occasionally affecting text, some unobtrusive worming, that on title skillfully repaired, some skillful marginal repairs, occasionally affecting foliation, illuminated extension trimmed on 4/1r, 44/2 with small tear and hole.) Modern pigskin-backed oak boards in period style by James Brockman, 1984, spine blind-tooled in compartments, lettered in gilt, boards with bevelled edges, slipcase. Provenance : Johannus [?]Urcreus (inscription on title) -- R.L.E. von Clodtz (inscription on title) -- Franz von Umbscheiden (inscription on title, recording gift to:) -- Salent von Umbschneiden. FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE 15TH CENTURY. Albrecht Dürer godson of Koberger, was an apprentice to Wolgemut, one of the chief artists for the book, from 1486 to 1489 and almost certainly involved in the production of the woodcuts. The work was published in both Latin and German editions (of c. 2,000 copies each, the German edition appearing some five months after the Latin), and it enjoyed swift success, engendering a number of pirated editions. Cf. A. Wilson The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle , Amsterdam: 1976; BMC II, 437 (IC. 7451-3); HC *14508; Polain(B) 3469; Schramm XVII, 6-7, 9; Schreiber 5203; Goff S-307.
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