SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514)

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Los 134 | SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514)
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SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514)
Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.
First edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle. The most extensively illustrated printed book of the 15th century, with over 1,800 woodcuts, including two double-page maps: a world map (Shirley 19) based on Mela's Cosmographia (1482), and a map of northern and central Europe by Hieronymus Münzer (1437-1508) after Nicolas Khyrpffs. The world map is one of only three 15th-century maps showing Portuguese knowledge of the Gulf of Guinea of about 1470. The map of Europe is closely associated with Nicolas of Cusa's Eichstätt map, with which it is thought to share a common manuscript source of c. 1439-54. It is therefore claimed to be the first modern map of this region to appear in print. Although published later than the map of Germany in the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy, it was constructed earlier (Campbell, The Earliest Printed Maps, 1472-1500, 1987). An elaborate manuscript exemplar, created to integrate text and illustration, survives, as do the contracts between Koberger and the artists responsible for the illustrations. Albrecht Dürer, godson of Koberger, was an apprentice to Wolgemut from 1486 to 1489 and was almost certainly involved in the production of the woodcuts. Two editions, one in Latin for an international audience and one in German for domestic readers, were planned simultaneously, each with its own specially designed, new type, and both with the same woodcuts; the Latin edition preceded the German by about 5 months. HC *14508; BMC II, 437; CIBN S-161; BSB-Ink. S-195; Bod-inc. S-108; Schreiber 5203; Goff S-307; ISTC is00307000.

Imperial folio (410 x 285mm). 326 leaves (of 328, without the final 2 blanks), xylographic title, 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks (Sydney Cockerell’s count) including double-page map of the world and double-page map of Europe, 29 town views extending across two pages, and 8 full-page cuts, by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Dürer, two principal initials supplied in colours on a burnished gold ground with extensions into the margins to form a part border (both cropped by the binder at the head), other major initials supplied in red, early pale wash colour added to some woodcuts in the first few quires (xylographic title with neatly repaired clean vertical tear at foot [not affecting text] and lower corner and edge strengthened with paper strips, minor worming repaired at foot of gutter in first few quires, fol. 129 with small repaired tear with tape on image, fols. 175 and 176 restored at head [possibly supplied from another copy] with a little text neatly supplied, fol. 232 with minor wear to a few words, occasional manuscript annotations or marginalia in pen or pencil, a few shaved by the binder). 18th-century speckled calf (rebacked, extremities rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance: small ink signature or inscription on title erased and covered by small paper slip.
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