SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 1
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 2
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 3
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 4
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 5
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 6
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 7
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 8
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 9
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 10
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 11
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 12
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 13
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 14
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 15
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 16
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 17
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 18
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 19
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 20
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493. - photo 21

SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493.

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Lot 197 | SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493.
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€ 90 000 – 140 000
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) - Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger per Sebald Schreyer e Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 luglio 1493.

An ancient coloured copy of the first edition of the most famous illustrated book of the 15th-century. The Nuremberg Chronicles are remembered for the numerous and splendid woodcut illustrations, to which Albrecht Dürer who was part of the workshop of Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff also contributed (Wilson, The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle, Amsterdam: 1976). Walter L. Strauss in the text Woodcuts and woodblocks (New York: Abaris book, 1980) attributes some woodcuts to the young artist. The work also includes two important double-page maps: a beautiful map of the world based on Pomponius Mela's Cosmographia of 1482 (Shirley 19), and a map of northern and central Europe by Hieronymus Münzer (1437-1508) by Nicolas Khyrpffs. The world map, found here in good condition and coloured on a yellow background, is one of only three 15th-century maps showing the Gulf of Guinea as it was known by the Portuguese around 1470. The map of Europe is instead strictly associated with the map of Eichstätt by Nicola di Cusa, with which it is believed he shares a common source of manuscripts of the years 1439-54; it is therefore considered the first modern map of the area to be printed. Although published after the 1482 Ptolemy of Ulm map of Germany, it is believed to have been created earlier (Campbell, The Earliest Printed Maps, 1472-1500, 1987).

Folio imperiale (430 x 281mm). 326 leaves (of 328 without the last two blank 61/5-6, woodcut title, ca.1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 wooden blocks by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop to which Albrecht Dürer belonged, with antique hand-colouring [count by SC Cokrell, Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century, Kelmscott Press: 1897, pp. 35-6]; two coats of arms just sketched in pen to the large woodcut of the Creation.

(The first 13 leaves and the map of Europe are from another copy, the map of Europe - probably in contemporary colouring - also has a marginal part integrated in manuscript, some reinforcements in the margins and is on modern guards, but there is an ownership note at the colophon on the verso of the map by Louis Texier which is also found on the other parts of the book and is dated 1766. In general some light soiling at beginning, few occasional tiny wormholes in the lower margin of the leaves from another copy and to a few other leaves, occasional dampstaining and some scattered spotting, leaf 17/1 - or folio LXVII - with tear repaired without loss, few other occasional marginal tearss, 60/6 - or folio CCXCVI - reinforced at the inner margin, few leave slightly trimmed at upper). 18th-century archival binding, decorated in blindstamped and with 5 external straps (recased, restored and with modern endpapers). Provenance: few contemporary annotations in the margins and at the colophon (sometimes trimmed) - Louis Texier (or Louis-François Texier-Olivier father of Louis Texier-Olivier, 1764-1849 a French republican deputy, born in Indre et Loire, near where the book was then bought in 1856; ownership notes in French dated April 15, 1766 on the blank CCLVIIIv, on the last leaf of preliminaries, on the other blank before leaf XXLVII and on the verso of the map of Europe) - another French note of a different hand dated 1823 at the colophon - Des Perines? (French ownership note dated 1840) - Allonche Charles (French ownership note dated 1856 in La Chartre) - Pierre Grellety? Bosrierl (Parisian physician, dated 1941) - "printed in the year 1458" and "MHV" in pen on the title.
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