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THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. image 1
THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. image 2
THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. image 3
THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. image 4
THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. image 5
THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. image 6
THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. image 7
THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. image 8
THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. image 9
THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. image 10
THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. image 11
THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. image 12
THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. image 13
THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. image 14
THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. image 15
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THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE.
SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514.
Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493.

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THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE.

SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514. Liber Chronicarum. [German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 23 December 1493. Imperial folio, modern oak covers with vellum spine, in German, capitals illuminated in red and blue in table of contents, illustrated with around 1,809 woodcuts printed from 645 blocks made by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, and their workshop assistants, one of whom was Albrecht Durer. Pages trimmed to 16 7/8 x 11 1/2 in. (428 x 293 mm.), 298 leaves, consisting of 9 unnumbered leaves of table of contents, 286 numbered pages, and one unnumbered leaf with the right half of the world map spread on the recto and the publisher's colophon on the verso, final blank lacking, edges stained light red. Repairs to leaves 24, 35, 36, 37, 50, 52, 57, 66, 67, 73, 93, 184, 188, 255, 268. Title pages has wormholes, and leaf 280 has wormholes at the bottom, margin only. Numbering of leaves 115, 166, and 118 corrected in pen. Leaf 152 misnumbered 147. Leaf 271 appears misnumbered as 171 with a "C" added in pen. Page 281 misnumbered at 286. Marginal annotations in an early German hand begin on page 124 and are particularly dense on leaves 160-164. Occasional underlining in an early hand.

Approximately 1,400 to 1,500 copies of the Latin edition (published 12 July 1493) of the Liber Chronicarum were printed, and 700 to 1,000 of the German edition. Of these, some 400 of the Latin and 300 of the German are believed to have survived to the present. 

In this copy, the image of Pope Joan (as "Pope John VII") on the verso of leaf 169 is not defaced.

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