Liber Chronicarum. Nuremberg Chronicle. Single Leaf. Folio LV. [Lienage of Christ and Lienage of Assyrian Kings. The Priestly Line.The Prophets. The Men in the Fiery Furnace]. Das Buch der Cronkin, Rare German Edition.

Schedel, Hartmann.

Editore: George Alt. [Anton Koberger],, Nuremberg:, 1493

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Minor edge wear, some light, spotting, no affect. Recto mentions and illustrates the Lienage of Christ = Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah and Manasseh, also the Assyrian Kings = Sardanapalus, Pul, Tiglath-pileser, Shalmaneser, Sennacherib and Esar-haddon. Verso mentions and illustrates the prophest Zephaniah, and Uriah and the minor prophets Habakkuk, Baruch, Jeremiah, Seraiah, Huldah and Jehozadak, also the Men in the Fiery Furnace = Mizhael, Hannaniah and Azariah depicted in a blazing oven, or furnace which was a device used for capital punishment - they are pictured here as children, choir boys - to indicate they sang praises of the Lord as they burned. The Nuremberg Chronicle is the most extensively illustrated book, and one of the most important, of the 15th century. The text is a universal history of the Christian world from the beginning of time to the 1490?s. Written in Latin by physician and humanist, Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) on commission from Nuremberg merchants Sebald Schreye (1446-1520) and Sebastian Kammermeister (1446-1503). The Chronicle was printed by Nuremberg printer Anton Koberger (c.1440-1513), owner of the largest 15th-century German printing house. The Latin edition was printed in Koberger?s shop between May 1492 and October 1493. In the meantime, a German translation was commissioned to George Alt (c.1450-1510), a scribe at the Nuremberg treasury, and the German edition was printed alongside the Latin one between January and December 1493. The Chronicle was illustrated by German artists Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, with the assistance of studio apprentices, including a young Albrecht Durer.

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• Titolo: Liber Chronicarum. Nuremberg Chronicle. Single Leaf. Folio LV. [Lienage of Christ and Lienage of Assyrian Kings. The Priestly Line.The Prophets. The Men in the Fiery Furnace]. Das Buch der Cronkin, Rare German Edition.
• Editore: George Alt. [Anton Koberger],, Nuremberg:
• Data di pubblicazione: 1493
• Edizione: First edition. Rare German edition.