German physician, humanist and
historian
From 1456 Schedel studied at
the university of Leipzig and in Padua from
1463. In 1466 he came back to Nuremberg, from
1470 until 77 he worked as a physician in Nördlingen,
then in Amberg, and from 1482 he lived in Nuremberg
again.
Hartmann Schedel, who was a
wealthy and influential citizen of Nuremberg,
became popular mainly as an author and editor
of the „Nuremberg Chronicle“, published in a
Latin and German edition in Nuremberg 1493.
The woodcut-illustrations of
the chronicle, at all more than 1800, were made
in the workshop of Michael Wolgemut (1434-1519)
and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (1460-1494) from 1487.
Maybe some were also created by Albrecht Dürer,
who completed an apprenticeship with Wolgemut
between 1486 and 1490.
Nuremberg Chronicle or Liber
Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles)
The Nuremberg Chronicle, written
and edited by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514),
is an richly illustrated world history that
follows the story of human history related in
the Bible, it includes the histories of a number
of important Western cities. Written in Latin
by Hartmann Schedel, with a version in German
translation by Georg Alt, it appeared in 1493,
printed and published by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg.
It is one of the best-documented early printed
books - an incunabulum - and one of the first
to successfully integrate illustrations and
text.
Many of the 18 large-sized town-views
belong to or even are the first authentic views
of these cities ever published. The two large
maps included - a world map and a map of central
Europe -, are still made in the style of Claudius
Ptolemy.
In the following we can offer
you some original full pages or even double-pages
from the Nuremberg Chronicle, Latin and German
edition, published in 1493:
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