THE PROPERTY OF AN INSTITUTION*
SCHEDEL, HARTMANN (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.
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SCHEDEL, HARTMANN (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.
Imperial 2° (419 x 300 mm). Collation: [1-26 38 46 5-74 8-116 122 134 14-166 172 18-196 20-254 26-296 302 316 324 33-356 362 374 38-616]. 326 leaves (of 328, without blank leaves 61/5-6). 4/1-61/3 foliated I-CCLXVI with errors, quire 55, the Salmatian supplement, without printed foliation, fols. CCLVIIII-CCLXI blank except for printed headlines, intended for readers' manuscript additions to the Sixth Age. 64 lines and headline. Types 9:165G (headings), 16:110BG (text). Xylographic title, 2- and 3-line pearled Lombard initials, 645 woodcuts repeated to a total of 1809 illustrations (Sydney Cockerell's count), including 2 double-page maps of the World (Shirley 19) and Europe, 29 town views extending across two pages, and 8 full-page cuts, by Michael Wohlgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including the young Albrecht Dürer. Spaces for larger initials, unrubricated (except for capital strokes to headlines of fols. CCLXVIII-CCLXI). Touch of coloring to a small woodcut on fol. CLXXIII, armorial shields on God the Father cut (fol. Iv) partially colored. (Dampstaining, particularly in second half, with occasional mildew in upper gutter margins, title laid down and stained, with loss to lower blank corner and a few small holes, fol. 1/6 misbound between 1/1 and 1/2, repairs to lower blank fore-corners of first 23 leaves, about 15 other minor marginal repairs or tears, Europe map soiled, stained and with several tears and repairs affecting image, fol. 54/1 [CCLXI, blank except for headline] torn and repaired, minor worming at beginning and end and occasionally in gutters, 41/5r [CLXXXVII] with foliation shaved). Late 16th- or early 17th-century blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, pair of original brass clasps with catches, edges blue-stained (rebacked in brown morocco gilt, rubbed).
Provenance: Nicolaus Langenmantel, 16th-century ownership inscription on banderole at bottom of full-page God the Father woodcut on fol. 4/1v (Iv) with armorial shield partially colored; 17th or 18th-century marginalia in 2 different hands on CLXIXv (passage on Pope Joan) and CCXXIr (both cropped, presumably at time of rebacking), the woodcut of Pope Joan on CLXIXv crossed out, as often, as are the verses accompanying the Imago mortis cut on CCLXIIIIr-v; Major-General Jago Trelawny Goldrenick, armorial bookplate; Frederick Haile Stebbins, bookplate.
FIRST EDITION of the Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world compiled by the physician Hartmann Schedel with the assistance of Conrad Celtis and Hieronymus Münzer, and the most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century. HC 14508*; BMC II, 437; Schreiber 5203; Alden & Landis 493/21; Shirley 19; Goff S-307.
Imperial 2° (419 x 300 mm). Collation: [1-26 38 46 5-74 8-116 122 134 14-166 172 18-196 20-254 26-296 302 316 324 33-356 362 374 38-616]. 326 leaves (of 328, without blank leaves 61/5-6). 4/1-61/3 foliated I-CCLXVI with errors, quire 55, the Salmatian supplement, without printed foliation, fols. CCLVIIII-CCLXI blank except for printed headlines, intended for readers' manuscript additions to the Sixth Age. 64 lines and headline. Types 9:165G (headings), 16:110BG (text). Xylographic title, 2- and 3-line pearled Lombard initials, 645 woodcuts repeated to a total of 1809 illustrations (Sydney Cockerell's count), including 2 double-page maps of the World (Shirley 19) and Europe, 29 town views extending across two pages, and 8 full-page cuts, by Michael Wohlgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including the young Albrecht Dürer. Spaces for larger initials, unrubricated (except for capital strokes to headlines of fols. CCLXVIII-CCLXI). Touch of coloring to a small woodcut on fol. CLXXIII, armorial shields on God the Father cut (fol. Iv) partially colored. (Dampstaining, particularly in second half, with occasional mildew in upper gutter margins, title laid down and stained, with loss to lower blank corner and a few small holes, fol. 1/6 misbound between 1/1 and 1/2, repairs to lower blank fore-corners of first 23 leaves, about 15 other minor marginal repairs or tears, Europe map soiled, stained and with several tears and repairs affecting image, fol. 54/1 [CCLXI, blank except for headline] torn and repaired, minor worming at beginning and end and occasionally in gutters, 41/5r [CLXXXVII] with foliation shaved). Late 16th- or early 17th-century blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, pair of original brass clasps with catches, edges blue-stained (rebacked in brown morocco gilt, rubbed).
Provenance: Nicolaus Langenmantel, 16th-century ownership inscription on banderole at bottom of full-page God the Father woodcut on fol. 4/1v (Iv) with armorial shield partially colored; 17th or 18th-century marginalia in 2 different hands on CLXIXv (passage on Pope Joan) and CCXXIr (both cropped, presumably at time of rebacking), the woodcut of Pope Joan on CLXIXv crossed out, as often, as are the verses accompanying the Imago mortis cut on CCLXIIIIr-v; Major-General Jago Trelawny Goldrenick, armorial bookplate; Frederick Haile Stebbins, bookplate.
FIRST EDITION of the Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world compiled by the physician Hartmann Schedel with the assistance of Conrad Celtis and Hieronymus Münzer, and the most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century. HC 14508*; BMC II, 437; Schreiber 5203; Alden & Landis 493/21; Shirley 19; Goff S-307.
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