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Lot 182: 2 FOLIOS FROM LIBER CHRONICARUM.

Est: €100 EUR - €120 EURSold:
Arenberg AuctionsBrussels, BelgiumJune 17, 2021

Item Overview

Description

Woodcuts, 45,5 x 31 cm, laid paper, Gothic Latin text and 22 woodcuts (sm. cuts in paper around edges, not affecting the image or text, slightly stained). - Folios 91 and 108 from the 1st Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th c. The 2 editions (Latin and German) were planned simultaneously, each with its own specially designed new type, and both with the same woodcuts; the Latin ed. preceded the German by about 5 months. The text is a universal history of the Christian world from the beginning of time to the early 1490s, written in Latin by the Nuremberg physician and humanist Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514). The woodcuts represent the Ascension of Mary Magdalene, St Luke painting the Virgin, the martyrdom of St John the Evangelist, Samson with the Gates of Gaza and King Saul. - Ref. ISTC is00307000. - GW M40784. - Goff S-307. - Polain 3469. - A. Wilson, The making of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1976). - C. Reske, Die Produktion der Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nürnberg (2000).

Date

1493

Payment & Shipping

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Auction Details

D1 - Drawings, Prints and Engravings

by
Arenberg Auctions
June 17, 2021, 01:00 PM CET

Wolstraat 19/2, Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, 1000, BE

Terms

Buyer's Premium

25.0%

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€20,000€69,999€2,000
€70,000+€5,000

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