Antique Print-NUREMBERG-CHRONICLE-KOBERGER-SCHEDEL-Wolgemut-Pleydenwurff-1493

Medium: Woodcut and letterpress 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. Some dampstaining. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, INCUNABULA, SCHEDEL, 1493, KOBERGER, GERMAN TEXT, WOODCUT, EARLY PRINTED BOOK, HISTORY OF PRINTING, BARBARA OF CELJE, POGGIO BRACCIOLINI, ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, RENAISSANCE HUMANISM | 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.