Roma
| Reference: | s29425 |
| Author | Hartmann SCHEDEL |
| Year: | 1496 |
| Zone: | Rome |
| Printed: | Basle |
| Measures: | 350 x 100 mm |
€1,200.00
| Reference: | s29425 |
| Author | Hartmann SCHEDEL |
| Year: | 1496 |
| Zone: | Rome |
| Printed: | Basle |
| Measures: | 350 x 100 mm |
€1,200.00
Description
Fantastic view of the city placed in the lower part of the sheet that also contains the descriptive text, taken from the "Liber cronicarum cum figuris et umaginibus ab initio mudi usus mit temporis", the very rare "pocket edition" of the famous chronicle of the world, published in Ausburg by Johann Schonsperger, in 1496.
First German edition of the Schonsperger. He shortened both the text and the format of the Schedel to produce an edition that was more manageable and marketable than that of A. Koberger.
"In 1469 an edition of the Chronicle of Nuremberg was produced in reduced format by J. Schonsperger in which the images are reduced copies of the original ones and also the texts are synthesized. This edition (the second one in German) is however much rarer than the first one. The publisher Schonsperger is known because he used in Nuremberg a new gothic character called Fraktur in the poem composed for the death of Maximilian I" (see Marigliani p. 117).
Woodcut, with fine later hand colour, excellent condition. Very rare.
Bibliografia
C. Marigliani, "Le Piante di Roma delle collezioni private", n. 10.
Hartmann SCHEDEL (Norimberga 1440 - ivi 1514)
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The medical doctor and humanist Hartmann Schedel, grew up in Nuremberg and first studied liberal art in Leipzig. In 1463 he went to Padua together with the humanist Petrus Luder, to study medicine, Italian, Greek and Hebrew. In 1466 he returned to Nuremberg as a medical doctor and settled as the Nuremberg town doctor. He was a prominent member of the Nuremberg circle of humanists around Pirckheimer, Hieronymus Münster and Konrad Celtis. His comprehensive private library was among the most important of his time, not only because of the books themselves, but also because of its numerous prints, miniatures and graphic sheets, which Schedel used to add to his books. Hartmann Schedel became famous for a world chronicle entitled 'Schedelsche Weltchronik' in his honor.
It is a world history containing humanist historical articles, and was published in Latin and German by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg in 1493. It was known as the largest undertaking in the book-making industry of that time and with its over 1800 woodcuts is one of the most richly illustrated incunables ever made. The high-quality artistic woodcuts were made by the German painter and woodcutter Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and his father-in-law Michael Wolgemuth in whose Nuremberg workshop Albrecht Dürer was an apprentice until late 1489.
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Hartmann SCHEDEL (Norimberga 1440 - ivi 1514)
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The medical doctor and humanist Hartmann Schedel, grew up in Nuremberg and first studied liberal art in Leipzig. In 1463 he went to Padua together with the humanist Petrus Luder, to study medicine, Italian, Greek and Hebrew. In 1466 he returned to Nuremberg as a medical doctor and settled as the Nuremberg town doctor. He was a prominent member of the Nuremberg circle of humanists around Pirckheimer, Hieronymus Münster and Konrad Celtis. His comprehensive private library was among the most important of his time, not only because of the books themselves, but also because of its numerous prints, miniatures and graphic sheets, which Schedel used to add to his books. Hartmann Schedel became famous for a world chronicle entitled 'Schedelsche Weltchronik' in his honor.
It is a world history containing humanist historical articles, and was published in Latin and German by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg in 1493. It was known as the largest undertaking in the book-making industry of that time and with its over 1800 woodcuts is one of the most richly illustrated incunables ever made. The high-quality artistic woodcuts were made by the German painter and woodcutter Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and his father-in-law Michael Wolgemuth in whose Nuremberg workshop Albrecht Dürer was an apprentice until late 1489.
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