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SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber Chronicarum . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.
SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber Chronicarum . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Imperial 2° (458 x 304 mm). Collation: [1-2 6 3 8 ; 4 6 5-7 4 8-11 6 12 2 13 4 14-16 6 17 2 18-19 6 20-25 4 26-29 6 30 2 31 6 32 4 33-35 6 36 2 37 4 38-61 6 ]. (1/1 xylographic title-page, 1/1v blank, 1/2r index, 4/1r Creation-Ultimate Age of the World, 54/6v blank, 55/1r Sarmatian supplement, 55/5v verse on the exploits of Maximilian, 55/6 blank, 56/1r supplements to the Sixth Age and description of Europe, 61/3v-4r map of Germany, 61/4v colophon, 61/5,6 blank). 326 leaves (of 328, without blanks 61/5,6). 64 lines and headline, table and parts of text double column, fos. CCLVIIII -CCLXI blank except for printed headlines. Types: 9:165G (headlines and headings), 16:110bG (text). 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks (S.C. Cockrell's count, Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century , Kelmscott Press: 1897, pp.35-6). (Some minor mostly marginal worming or small holes occasionally touching a few letters, a few mostly marginal tears, some repaired, crossing one woodcut, some marginal dampstaining or staining, some light marginal chipping and fraying to a few leaves affecting margin of the map of Germany, map of Germany with small hole in gutter affecting woodcut.) 16th-century north German blind-tooled calf over wooden beveled boards, covers decorated to the same pattern with central gilt “IS” (worn and rubbed, rebacked, upper hinge reinforced, modern tape to gutter of upper joint and the gutter of two index leaves). Provenance : occasional early annotations in at least three hands (covered in two places); Impartial Latin sentiment in an early hand on colophon; Latin motto dated 1560 on xylographic title: “Sapet qui sustinet”; early 16th-century sentiment on colophon: “Youe thayt fynd / I praye youe hartely to be so kynd”; manuscript note referring to the 8th year of Henry VII in early 17th-century hand on pastedown and colophon; Sheldan Stephens (manuscript note on pastedown); by descent to Jane Chapeau (manuscript note on pastedown); gifted to George Wingfield (manuscript note on pastedown); returned to William Chapeau (manuscript note on pastedown dated 1779); H.C.L. Morris M.D. (bookplate on pastedown); Paul Fuchs (gift inscription on flyleaf dated 21 November 1971). FIRST EDITION of the Liber Chronicarum , the most extensively illustrated work of the fifteenth century which numbered among its artists Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Dürer godson of Koberger. A history of the world compiled by the physician Hartmann Schedel with the assistance of Conrad Celtis and Hieronymus Muenzer, The Nuremberg Chronicle is illustrated with over 1800 woodcuts. An elaborate manuscript exemplar, created to integrate text and illustration, survives, as do the contracts between Koberger and the artists responsible for the illustrations. HC *14508; BMC II, 437 (IC.7451-3); BSB-Ink S-195; Goff S-307.