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This is a leaf of incunabula from the Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles) better known as The Nuremberg Chronicles. Next to Gutenberg’s Bible it is one of the best-documented early printed books and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text. Written in 1491by Hartmann Schede it is an illustrated Biblical paraphrase and world history. Johann Schonsperger printed this edition on February 1, 1497 in Augsburg. The small folio leaf measures 300 x 195 mm. in totality and contains various lines of Gothic type (4, 5, 9) printed multi-column format in Latin, copiously illustrated by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. There is a full page woodcut of the Temple Complex at Jerusalem. All woodcuts contain contemporary hand coloring. Verso: contains the same lines format & type. (Hain 14509; Goff S-308, Proctor 1786, Oates 946, BMC II 370) This leaf contains minor staining |