Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Source Creator:
Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514.
Source Title:
[Liber chronicarum] Registrum huius operis Libri cronicarum cu[m] figuris et ijmagibus ab inicio mu[n]di.
Source Created or Published:
1493
Physical Description:
fol. CCLXXXVIIII [289] recto: Anglia
Source Call Number:
INC S281
Digital Image File Name:
3463
Digital Image Type:
FSL collection
Hamnet Bib ID:
90668
Hamnet Holdings ID:
92955
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Creator (Hamnet):
Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514.
Uniform Title (Hamnet):
Liber chronicarum
Title (Hamnet):
Registrum huius operis Libri cronicarum cu[m] figuris et ijmagibus ab inicio mu[n]di.
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Popularly known as the Nuremberg chronicle
Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
[Nuremberg] :
Creator or Publisher (Hamnet):
Anthonius Koberger Nuremberge impressit ...,
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
consummatu[m] autem duodecima mensis Julij, anno Salutis n[ost]re 1493.
Physical Description (Hamnet):
[20], cclxvi, [6], cclxvii-ccxcix, [1] leaves : ill., coats of arms, maps, ports. ; 47 cm. (fol.)
Notes (Hamnet):
Author's name from original manuscript.
Notes (Hamnet):
Imprint from colophon.
Notes (Hamnet):
"... Castigatu[m]q[ue] a viris doctissimis vt magis elaboratum in lucem prodiret. Ad intuitu[m] autem & preces prouidoru[m] ciuiu[m] Sebaldi Schreyer [et] Sebastiani kamermaister hunc librum ... impressit. Adhibitis tame[n] viris mathematicis pingendiq[ue] arte peritissimis. Michaele wolgemut et wilhelmo Pleydenwurff ... figure inserte sunt ..."--Colophon.
Notes (Hamnet):
Signatures: [*]-[**]⁶, [***]⁸, [a]⁶, [b-d]⁴, [e-h]⁶, [i]², [k]⁴, [l-n]⁶, [o]², [p-q]⁶, [r-y]⁴, [z-2c]⁶, [2d]², [2e]⁶, [2f]⁴, [2g-2i]⁶, [2k]², [2l]⁴, [2m-2z]⁶, [A-L]⁶, [M-N]².
Notes (Hamnet):
Leaf [6], 3rd count,is blank.
Notes (Hamnet):
Capital spaces and printed capitals.
Notes (Hamnet):
Woodcut title page.
Notes (Hamnet):
Includes index.
Notes (Hamnet):
Folger copy: last gathering of 2 conjugate leaves, possibly from another edition (wider margins bear 16th century manuscript notes in a different handwriting, colophon repeated in manuscript at end of text on verso of leaf CCXCVIII); error in numbering of leaf CCXLVII corrected using white paint; error on leaf CCXXIX corrected with white paint and brown ink; small hole in leaf CLIX, slightly affecting text.
Notes (Hamnet):
Early manuscript notes in brown ink in several hands in parts of the book; a note relating to persecution of Jews in Brandenburg in 1510 on verso of leaf CCXXX, affected by cropping of edges; in a few woodcuts of cities which have been re-used for other locations, city name has been erased.
Notes (Hamnet):
Early manuscript note of ownership on back pastedown, defaced, illegible; bookplate "Albert Natural", and large bookplate of the Baron Bethmann; purchased in 1964.
Notes (Hamnet):
Sixteenth century German pigskin binding blind tooled with borders made of medallions of Reformers and New Testament figures; remains of 2 clasps (repaired); 5 metal bosses. See oversized curatorial file for rubbing of front board.
Citations (Hamnet):
Goff S-307.
Citations (Hamnet):
BM 15th cent., I, p. 437 (IC.7451).
Citations (Hamnet):
Hain-Copinger 14508*.
Subject (Hamnet):
Chronology, Historical -- Early works to 1800.
Subject (Hamnet):
Annotations (Provenance)
Subject (Hamnet):
Illustrated works -- 15th and 16th centuries.
Subject (Hamnet):
Pigskin bindings (Binding) -- Germany -- 16th century.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Natural, Albert, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Koberger, Anton, ca. 1440-1513, printer.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Wolgemut, Michael, 1434-1519, printmaker.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm, d. 1494, printmaker.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Bethmann, Baron, former owner.
Call Number (Hamnet):
INC S281

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