‘BERTA ETAS MUDI / BERTA ETAS MUNDI CCXLV’

– Latin-language folio from the Nuremberg Chronicle with colored woodcut portraits of Cosimo de’ Medici, Nicolaus Cusanus, Bartolomeus Montagnana, Antonius Cermisanus, and other Renaissance figures. Text discusses their accomplishments in medicine, theology, and humanism. Verso features a woodcut of lovers and description of military events in 15th-century Alsace.

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Description

Medium: Woodcut and letterpress with original hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 32 x 46 cm (12.6 x 18.11 inch). Image size: 32 x 46 cm. (12.6 x 18.11 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. . General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, SCHEDEL, 1493, KOBERGER, COSIMO DE MEDICI, NICOLAUS CUSANUS, HUMANISM, RENAISSANCE, INCUNABULA, EARLY PRINTING, LATIN EDITION, WOODCUT | PCO-B2-33

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From ‘Liber Chronicarum’ (Nuremberg Chronicle) = Schedelsche Weltchronik, by Hartmann Schedel, printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg, 1493.

Reference: ISTC is00307000; GW M40796.

Biography engraver: Michael Wolgemut (1434-1519) and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (c.1450-1494) were German artists and printmakers. Wolgemut, Albrecht D?rer’s teacher, collaborated with Pleydenwurff in producing woodcut illustrations for the Nuremberg Chronicle.

Biography artist: Author: Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) was a German historian, physician, humanist, and one of the first cartographers to use the printing press.