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SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514)

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Lot 69 | SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514)
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514)

Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.

Fully coloured copy of the first edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century, with over 1800 woodcuts. Albrecht Dürer, the printer Koberger's godson, is thought to have contributed to the celebrated series of woodcuts while working for the workshop of Michael Wolgemut. The publication history of the Nuremberg Chronicle is perhaps the best documented of any book printed in this period: the contracts between Schedel and his partners Schreyer and Kammermaister, and between Schedel and the artists, all survive in the Nuremberg Stadtsbibliothek, as do detailed manuscript exemplars of both the Latin and the German editions. The Nuremberg Chronicle also includes 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). 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 (457 x 310mm). 324 leaves (of 326, lacking 4⁄1 [opening text leaf with woodcut on verso] and without final blank). 1808 (of 1809) woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks (S.C. Cockerell's count, Some German woodcuts of the fifteenth century, 1897, pp.35-6), by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Dürer, all coloured by a contemporary artist, opening illuminated initial in blue modelled in white on gold ground within fictive frame, red capital strokes. Some discolouration and staining, occasionally corrosive where a heretic has been censored, some offsetting, gathering 9 browned and with some oxidation to colour pigments, small hole in woodcuts on f. CXC, marginal paper flaw in f. CXCIX, minor marginal repaired tear in f. CCXXXVI, staining, corrosion and loss to f. CCXLI affecting view of Konstanz as well as adjacent leaves, f. CCLIII with small internal tear, f.CCLVI with small internal tear and marginal tear, f. CCLXIII with minor repairs, f.CCLXV with one word deleted and ’homines’ added in the fore-margin, f. CCLXXX with internal neat tears and old repairs, map of Europe with small internal tears affecting a few letters on verso.) 17th-century calf, sides with narrow border of gilt triple fillet and blind foliate roll, gilt spine, labels in two compartments (leather defective, hinges mostly holding) Provenance: some early annotations ‒ old armorial bookplate (mostly removed).

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