Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cu[m] figuris et ymagibus ab inicio mu[n]di.

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Main Author: Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514
Corporate Author: H.P. Kraus (Firm) (Bookseller)
Other Authors: Wolgemut, Michael, 1434-1519, Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm, -1494, Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut, 1903-1992 (Bookseller)
Language:Latin
Published: [Nuremberg] : [Anton Koberger, for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister], [12 July 1493]
Subjects:
Chronology, Historical.
Incunabula > Germany > Nuremberg > 1493.
Genre:
Incunabula
Ownership and Custodial History:
MSU: Purchased from H.P. Kraus in 1956 or 1957 through Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt.
MSU: Inscription at foot of title page: Ex bibliotheca M. Johannis Roeseneri Vratisl. Sil.
Local Note:
MSU: Lacking fol. CCLVIIII (blank and intended for owner's notes); six unnumbered leaves containing the Sarmacian supplement are misbound at the end instead of between fol. CCLXVI and CCLXVII; fol. CCXXXVII-CCXLI are more closely trimmed than other leaves.
MSU: Inscription at head of title page: Liber de historiis aetatum mundi ac descriptionib. vrbium cum figuris authore Hartmanno Schedelio docto.
MSU: Contemporary Latin inscription on title page verso providing a brief description of the Nuremberg Chronicle and its contributors.
MSU: Capital strokes, paragraph marks, and some initials in red; some illustrations are hand-colored, some accented in red.
MSU: Conservation 2017 Wallace Conservation Lab, MSU Libraries.
Binding Information:
MSU: Contemporary blind-tooled alum-tawed skin over wooden boards, retaining original brass corner pieces and center boss on front board; retains complete lower brass clasp and lower half of the upper clasp.
Physical Description:20 unnumbered pages, cclxvi, 6 unnumbered pages, cclxvii-ccxcix, 3 unnumbered leaves; leaf 6 unnumbered pages (of 3d group) and 2 last leaves blank : illustrations, maps (woodcuts) ; 48 cm (folio)
Variant Title:
Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cum figuris et ymagibus ab inicio mundi.
Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cu figuris et ymagibus ab inicio mudi.
Liber chronicarum.
Nuremberg chronicle.
Format: Book
Description
Note:More commonly known as the Nuremberg chronicle or Liber chronicarum.
Imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue.
Leaf [1a] (woodcut title): Registrum huius operis Libri cronicarum cũfiguris et ymagibus ab inicio mũdi.
Illus. by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff.
Includes index.
Call Number:D17 .S35 1493
XX oversize
References:
Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement) *14508. Brit. Mus. Cat. (XV cent.) II, p. 437 (IC. 7451) Schramm. Bilderschmuck d. Frühdr., v. 17, p.6, 9, and illus. Goff S-307.
Incunabula short title catalogue, is00307000.
Source of Acquisition:
H.P. Kraus; Purchase; 1956 or 1957. MiEM.