Title from leaf I of text; imprint from colophon.
The colophon (leaf CCLXVIr), dated June 4, 1493, marks the completion of the work of Schedel; George Alt the author of the remainder of the text. This colophon referred to by A. Wilson as the "second" colophon; the "first" colophon, dated June 10, 1493, appears on leaf CCLVIII verso; the final colophon appears on the verso of the final printed leaf of the text, a map. Cf. Wilson, Adrian. The Making of the Nuremberg chronicle, 1976, p. 156.
Colophon (1eaf CCLXVIr): Completo in famosissima Nurembergensi vrbi Operi de hystorijs etatum mundi, ac descriptione vrbium felix imponitur finis. Collectum breui tempore Auxilio doctoris hartma[n]ni Schedel. qua fieri potuit diligentia. Anno [Chr][ist]i Millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimotercio. die quarto mensis Junij ...
Colophon (leaf [CCC]r): ... Ad intuitu[m] autem [et] preces prouidoru[m] ciuiu[m] Sebaldi Schreyer [et] Sebastiani Kamermaister hunc librum dominus Anthonius Koberger Nuremberge impressit. Adhibitis tame[n] viris mathematicis pingendiq[ue] arte peritissimis. Michaele Wolgemut et Wilhelmo Pleydenwurff quaru[m] solerti acuratissimaq[ue] animaduersione tum ciuitatum tum illustrium viroum figure inserte sunt. Consummatu[m] autem duodecima mensis Iulij anno salutis n[ost]re 1493.
Includes the Historia rerum Friderici Tertii imperatoris of Pope Pius II (leaves CCLXVII-CCXCVIII).
On the verso of leaf [5] (between leaf CCLXVI and CCLXVII) sapphic stanzas with heading "Ad deum optimum maximum de his que mirabilia gessit pro iustissimo et excelso Maximiliano rege Romanorum."
Illustrated by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, and Albrecht Dürer. Cf. Wilson, Adrian. The Making of the Nuremberg chronicle, 1976, p. 193ff.
"The woodcuts ... number 1809, of which 1164 are repeats"--BM 15th cent.
"The anonymous world map [i.e. the Eastern Hemisphere] ... is a copy of a Venetian woodcut added to Pomponius Mela's Cosmographia eleven years previously ... In other words, it is of simplified Ptoelmaic design and drawn on the earlier of two projections devised byPtolemy for his world map, although without including co-ordinates"--T. Campbell, Earliest printed maps, no. 219.
BM 15th cent.,
Goff,
Hain-Copinger,
ISTC (RLIN),
BSB-Ink,
Campbell, T. Earliest printed maps,
BN cat. des incun.,
Polain,
Klebs,
IDL,
IGI,
IBP,
Sajó-Soltész,
Madsen,
Ohly-Sack,
Rhodes, Oxford Colleges,
Proctor,
Central Library's copy (AB 03379): unsigned; capitals handwritten in the table and on leaves Ir and CCLXIIr; spaces for capitals on leaf XIr and leaf [1]r (3rd sequence), being the beginning of De Sarmacia regione Europe; remaining capitals woodcut throughout; leaves CCLVIIII-CCLXI are blank except for the head-lines; table and parts of the text in two columns; inscribed "H. Cavendish" on the verso of the woodcut t.p. of the index; bookplate: William, VII Duke of Devonshire K.G. Chatsworth; some pages mended.
Frederick, 1415-1493.
Uniform title:
Liber chronicarum
