Liber Chronicarum. Nuremberg Chronicle. Single Leaf. Folio CCXX. [The Burning of the Jews].

Nuremberg:: Anton Koberger,, 1493.. First edition. Latin.. 11.75 x 17.75 inches.. Single leaf. Very minor edge wear with a single tiny worm hole at very outer edge of margin pin hole size no affect. Overall in excellent example and a fine impression. Recto shows three small cuts of Albert of Austria, Wenceslaus the Third, and a comet. Verso illustrates large woodcut of the Jews being burned alive in the first year of emperor Albert at Nuremberg and two small cuts of Dinus of Mugello and James of Arena. Suitable for framing. 11.75 x 17.75 inches. The Nuremberg Chronicle is the most extensively illustrated book, and one of the most important, of the 15th century. The text is a universal history of the Christian world from the beginning of time to the 1490Õs. Written in Latin by physician and humanist, Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) on commission from Nuremberg merchants Sebald Schreye (1446-1520) and Sebastian Kammermeister (1446-1503). The Chronicle was printed by Nuremberg printer Anton Koberger (c.1440-1513), owner of the largest 15th-century German printing house. The Latin edition was printed in KobergerÕs shop between May 1492 and October 1493. In the meantime, a German translation was commissioned to George Alt (c.1450-1510), a scribe at the Nuremberg treasury, and the German edition was printed alongside the Latin one between January and December 1493. The Chronicle was illustrated by German artists Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, with the assistance of studio apprentices, including a young Albrecht Durer.