| Notes: | Commonly called the Nuremberg Chronicle.
The colophon (leaf cclviii recto), dated June 4, 1493, marks the completion of the work of Schedel; George Alt author of the remainder of the text. Consult Wilson, Adrian. The Making of the Nuremberg chronicle, 1976, page 156.
Illustrations by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, and Albrecht Dürer.
Incipit, leaf 1: Epitoma operu[m] sex dieru[m] de mu[n]di fabrica prologus.
Colophon, leaf cclxvi recto: Completo in famosissima Nurembergensi vrbe 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 [Christi] millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimotercio, die quarto mensis Junij. Deo igitur optimo, sint laudes infinite.
Colophon, leaf [1] verso at end: Ad est nunc studiose lector finis Libri cronicarum per viam epithomatis [et] breuiarij compilati opus q[ui]dem preclarum, [et] a doctissimo quoq[ue] comparandum. Continent e[u]m gesta, quecu[m]q[ue] digniora sunt notatu ab initio mu[n]di ad hanc vsq[ue] te[m]poris nostri calamitatem. Castigatu[m]q[ue] a viris doctissimis vt magis elaboratum in lucem prodiret. 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 pingendisq[ue] arte preitissimis. Michaele Wolgemut et Wilhelmo Pleydenwurff, quaru[m] solerti acuratissimaq[ue] animaduersione ciuitatum tum illustrium virorum figure inserte sunt. Consummatu[m] autem duodecina mensis Julij, anno salutis n[ost]re 1493.
64 lines; table and parts of text printed in 2 columns; types 165 (head-lines and headings) and 110b (text); initial spaces in the table and on leaves i, cclxvi, cclxvii, and cclxviii; unsigned.
"The woodcuts ... number 1809 of which 1164 are repeats ..."--Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.
Leaves cclx-cclxi blank except for head-lines and pagination.
For variants see description by W. Todd, 'Liber chronicarum 1493', Book collector 13 (1964), pages 497-498. For woodcut variations see C. Reske, Produktion der Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nürnberg, pages 151-189.
Includes index.
Incunabula short title catalogue, entry is00307000
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, page 437 (IC. 7451)
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M40784
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry *14508
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry S307
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry S-195
Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables, entry S-161
Klebs, A.C. Incunabula scientifica et medica, 889.1
Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, entry 3469
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