Lib[er] cronicarum : cu[m] figuris et ymagi[ni]bus ab inicio mu[n]di
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Lib[er] cronicarum : cu[m] figuris et ymagi[ni]bus ab inicio mu[n]di
Other titles: Liber chronicarum; Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cum figuris et ymagibus ab inicio mundi; Nuremberg Chronicle
Classmark: BC Safe/SCH
Creator(s): Schedel, Hartmann (1440-1514)
Additional creator(s): Wolgemut, Michael (1434-1519) (Other); Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm (1494) (Other); Schreyer, Sebald (1446-1520) (Publisher); Kammermeister, Sebastian (1446-1503) (Publisher); Koberger, Anton (1440-1513) (Printer); Riviere, Robert (1808-1882) (Binder); Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge Baron (1820-1894) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Wolgemut, Michael; Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm; Schreyer, Sebald; Kammermeister, Sebastian; Koberger, Anton; Riviere, Robert; Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Ad intuitu[m] autem [et] preces prouidoru[m] ciuiu[m] Sebaldi Schreyer [et] Sebastiani kamermaister hunc librum dominus Anthonius koberger Nuremberge impressit. Adhibitis tame[n] viris mathematicis pingendi[que] arte peritissimis. Michaele wolgemut et wil; Anton Koberger, for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister
Publication city: [Nuremberg]
Date(s): Anno salutis n[ost]r[a]e 1493. [12 July 1493]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [20], CCLXVI, [6], CCLXVII-CCXCIX, [3] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/116974
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008588439705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
No signatures.
Title extracted from woodcut title of register (leaf [1ar]), which begins: Registrum huius operis Libri cronicarum.
Imprint from the colophon on the verso of leaf [CCC].
Colophon on the verso of leaf CCLVIII reads: Nuremberga x. kal[end]as Junias. Anno ab incarnatione saluatoris [Christ]i millesimo quadringentesimononagesimotercio.
Colophon on the recto of leaf CCLXVI reads: Completo in famosissima Nurembergensi vrbi Operi de hystorijs etatum mundi, ac descriptione vrbium felix imponitur finis. Collectum breui tempore Auxilio doctoris hartma[n]ni Schedel. qua fieri potuit diligentia. Anno Chr[ist]i millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimotercio, die quarto mensis Junij. Deo igitur optimo, sint laudes infinite.
Colophon on the verso of leaf [CCC] reads:... Ad intuitu[m] autem [et] preces prouidoru[m] ciuiu[m] Sebaldi Schreyer [et] Sebastiani kamermaister hunc librum dominus Anthonius koberger Nuremberge impressit. Adhibitis tame[n] viris mathematicis pingendi[que] arte peritissimis. Michaele wolgemut et wilhelmo Pleydenwurff. quaru[m] solerti acuratissima[que] animaduersione tum ciuitatum tum illustrium virorum figure inserte sunt. Consummatu[m] autem duodecima mensis Iulij. Anno salutis n[ost]r[a]e 1493.
Table and parts of the text printed in two columns with 64 or 65 lines to a full column.
Leaves CCLVIIII-CCLXI have printed running titles and foliation but no text.
Initial spaces in the table and on the rectos of leaves I, CCLXI and CCLXVII, no guide-letters. Printed initials elsewhere.
With 1809 woodcuts by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff.
The final leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. is00307000.
Indexed in: Goff S-307; Hain 14508.
Features
Notes in pencil manuscript on the verso of the first front flyleaf, twentieth-century, giving details of the edition.
Capital strokes supplied in red in the final colophon on the verso of leaf [CCC] only.
The woodcuts are uncoloured except for the map on the verso of leaf CCXCIX and the recto of leaf [CCC].
A misprint [CXCI] on the recto of leaf [7] has been erased.
Leaves 321-326 have been bound in error before leaf 287 (CCLXVII).
The edges of leaves CCLXXVIII to the end have been mended.
Bindings
Mid nineteenth-century binding of light brown goatskin over pasteboard by Riviere whose name is blind-tooled on the turn-in beneath the front pastedown. The upper cover is blind-tooled with a border and frame of decorated triple fillets, the frame containing a repeating design of stylised foliage and crowns within circles. At each corner is a rose motif. The central panel is decorated with a pattern featuring stylised foliage and the same rose motif. Blind-tooled above and below the central panel are the words: Chronicon Nurembergense. The lower cover is decorated in an identical manner but for the lettering. Blind-tooled above and below the central panel are the words: Koberger 1493. The spine has six raised bands each decorated with a single blind-tooled fillet and one to either side. Blind-tooled in the second panel are the words: Chronicon Nurembergense. Blind-tooled in the third panel are the name and date: Koberger 1493. The remaining panels are decorated with a single fillet
border containing a large motif of stylised foliage. The board edges are blind-tooled with alternating single fillets and twisted strands and the turn-ins are blind-tooled with two fillets. The book has gilt edges. Size: 475 x 350mm. Leaf size: 455 x 320mm.
Provenance
Inscription in black ink manuscript, late nineteenth-century, on the recto of the front pastedown: JD Coleridge, 1 Sussex Square, 1871. The book was bought by John Duke Coleridge, first Baron Coleridge (1820-1894) on 2 December 1871.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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