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SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514)

Lot 61
09.07.2025 10:30UTC +01:00
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Lot 61 | SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 35 000
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 book of the 15th century. Albrecht Dürer, godson of the printer Anton Koberger, is thought to have contributed to the celebrated series of 1809 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 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 (455 x 321mm). 325 leaves (of 326, without the final blank, and with leaves E5 and I5 apparently supplied from another copy). 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, painted initials in blue or red and blue (closed repaired tears in margins of three leaves ([*1], [2k2] and [E4]), and one just into woodcut on [a3], E5 remargined at gutter and fore-edge and strengthened at lower margin just into woodcut, I4-5 and M4-5 rehinged, some mostly marginal finger-soiling or small stains, heavier in first leaf, small wormholes mostly in margins at beginning and end and entering printed area in final quires). 16th-century German blindstamped pigskin [dated precisely to 1553 according to a contemporary inscription on the front pastedown], brass clasps, bevelled edges (extremities lightly rubbed with slight loss at head of spine, some staining, corner of rear pastedown renewed, upper hinge splitting but firm). Provenance: some early annotations – Parish Church of Meissen, Germany (ownership inscription on front pastedown recording the date of the binding as 1553) – Nagy István (Hungarian magistrate, c.1800-1863; red ink stamp on first leaf and a few others, his library apparently purchased in the 1870s by German booksellers List & Francke) – W. Senn-Dürck, Basel-Riehen (1904-2001; booklabel); by descent.
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