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Creator:
Schedel, Hartmann, 1440–1514
Title(s):
Register des Buchs der Croniken vnd Geschichten : mit Figure[n] vnd Pildnüssen von Anbegi[n]n der Welt bis auf dise v[n]nsere Zeit.
Additional Title(s):

Register des Buchs der Croniken und Geschichten

Buch der Croniken und Geschichten

Liber chronicarum. German
Published/Created:
[Nuremberg] : Durch ... Anthonien Koberger daselbst zu Nürmberg gedruckt, auf Anregu[n]g vnd Begern ... Sebalden Schreyers vnd Sebastia[n]n Kamermaisters ..., Volbracht a[m]m. xxiij. Tag des Monats Decembris nach der Gepurt Cristi vnssers Haylands M.cccc.xciij. [1493] Iar.
Physical Description:
[10], CCLXXXVI, [2] leaves (last leaf blank) : ill., coats of arms, maps, ports. ; 43 cm. (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0676
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN ZZi 2086 Copy 1: Some hand colored illustrations; partially rubricated.
BEIN ZZi 2086 Copy 1: From the library of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex.
Author, Hartmann Schedel, from original manuscript.
Translation, by George Alt, of: Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum. Nuremberg, 12 July, 1493.
Imprint from colophon.
"... vo[n] hohgelerte[n] Manne[n] in latein ... versa[m]melt vnd durch Georgium Alten ... auss de[n]selben latein ... in diss teütsch gebracht ... vnd auch mit Anhangung Michael Wolgemütz vnnd Wilhelm Pleydenwurffs Maler ... die diss Werck mit Figuren wercklich geziert haben"--Colophon.
Gatherings (unsigned): [pi¹⁰ a⁶ b-d⁴ e-h⁶ i² k⁴ l-n⁶ o² p-q⁶ r-y⁴ z-cc⁶ dd² ee⁶ ff⁴ gg-ii⁶ kk² ll⁴ mm-C⁶ D-E⁴ F-H⁶ I⁶⁺²].
Woodcut t.p..
Capital spaces without initials in index and on leaf I; printed capitals elsewhere.
Double columns in index and parts of text.
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 14510*
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 2086
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, p. 437 (IC 7458)
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S-309
Incunabula short title catalogue, is00309000
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 77525
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 5205
Includes (leaves CCLXVIIv-CCLXXXVI) an extract from Aeneas Sylvius' description of Europe.
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0676: Imperfect: four leaves only, including the title leaf, frontispiece, leaf [261] (dance of death) and leaf [262] (expulsion of the Antichrist). From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, 1773–1843 -- Ownership.
Chronology, Historical.
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
World history -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:
Woodcuts.
Hand-colored illustrations.
Incunabula.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Alt, Georg, approximately 1450–1510, translator.
Wolgemut, Michael, 1434–1519, engraver.
Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm, -1494, engraver.
Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440–1513, printer.
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