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[Hartmann Schedel]. Liber Chronicarum [Nuremberg Chronicle]. [Nuremberg: Printed by Anton Koberger for Sebald Schrey...
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[Hartmann Schedel]. Liber Chronicarum [Nuremberg Chronicle]. [Nuremberg: Printed by Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermaister, 12 July 1493]. First edition, with the title page in Latin. Elephant folio. [321 of 326 leaves; lacking one Contents leaf "El-Jula-Fredericus tercius," folios 189, 259, 260, and final blank leaf; four unsigned leaves between folios 258-261, folio 264 also unsigned. Illustrated with over 1,800 woodblock prints by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Peydenwurff, and one of Wolgemut's apprentices, Albrecht Dürer.Rebound with later ribbed calf, presumably over the original wooden boards. Spine perished but holding, binding brittle, worming to wooden boards, rubbed and worn with boards showing and losses to calf and wood on all edges, joints split but holding. Later endpapers, all edges trimmed and stained red; hinges split but holding, endpapers foxed and somewhat soiled, some worming to the top edge of the front endpapers, armorial bookplate of S. Leigh Taylor and pencil notations to the front pastedown.
Early ink marginalia throughout, minor worming to the front of the text block, minor offsetting, text block unevenly toned, scattered marginal insect soiling and dampstaining and professional repairs but chiefly unaffecting text (see below), some pages creased, text block edges with minor wear and soiling and a small amount of chipping at the rear of the text block. Title page trimmed and laid down, with early ink notations and several repaired tears affecting text. Eighteen contents leaves with heavy marginal repairs, chiefly unaffecting text or otherwise just touching text, marginal dampstaining, somewhat creased and soiled. Folios 101 and 297 entirely remargined and reinserted, fourteen leaves with new lower margin and repaired along inner margin (80, 82, 87, 102, 129, 143, 144, 159, 160, 162, 169, 217, 230, 231; folios 87 and 230 with minor loss to woodcut), six leaves with light dampstaining just affecting text (6, 7, 39, 99, 100, and 177), twelve leaves with marginal repairs extending into text or images (12, 17, 77, 91, 99, 132, 140, 146, 207, 226, 243, and 286). Folio 169 effaced by an early hand, affecting an image of a Pope and one paragraph of text, with an additional paragraph added in manuscript in the lower margin and some transfer of paper from where this page adhered to and then was separated from a following page; this leaf is likely supplied, as the damage displayed here does not match with offsetting or damage that would be expected on the following page. Seventeen additional leaves repaired in inner margin, but not affecting text (chiefly reinforced for double-page woodcuts). Folio 299 (map) repaired along inner margin and with bottom right corner supplied in manuscript facsimile. Six leaves with scattered coloring to images, chiefly brown/green (91, 92, 98, 99, 100, 145), folio 267 with a single line highlighted in green, folio 222 through the end of the text block with small pinhole worming, only just affecting text on a few pages. Very good.
"The Liber chronicarum, also known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, is one of the most celebrated books to be issued during the early years of printing, mainly because of its 1,809 glorious images," (Warnement). Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514), a physician and scholar in Nuremberg at the time, created the Chronicarum as a universal history of the Christian world, starting from the Book of Genesis and continuing through his own contemporary time in Nuremberg. This incredible title, extensive in its rich history and sumptuous illustration, was responsible for exposing much of Europe to the wider world, depicting famous cities, global geography, historical events, domestic life, politics, entertainment, and a variety of arts, sciences, and technological developments. Schedel amassed his information from a variety of classical and medieval sources, many of which came from his own library, which remains chiefly intact in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. Reported numbers for surviving copies seem to conflict but by all accounts is likely under 1000 for this Latin edition, the bulk of which are located in institutional holdings.
BMC II 437; Cave (2014), pages 100-101; ISTC is00307000; Goff S-307; GW M040784; HC *14508; Proctor *2084; Sotheby's (1841, Lot 209); USTC 748763; Warnement (2006), pages 70-72.
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