A SINGLE HAND-COLOURED BIFOLIUM FROM THE FAMED NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, showing the full view of VENICE, Leaves XLIII and XLIIII

Anton Koberger, for Sebald Screyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 1493

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Year of publication

1493

Place of printing

[Nuremberg

Author

[Incunabula, Nuremberg Chronicle, Venice, Venezia, Schedel

Publishers

Anton Koberger, for Sebald Screyer and Sebastian Kammermeister

Edition

FROM THE FIRST EDITION OF THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, ARGUABLY THE

Languages

English

First edition

Yes

Description

First Edition with the Latin text, the bifolium with fine hand-colouring to the Venice view. This is one of the large, double-page city-view woodcuts from the workshop of Mighael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff beneith 24 lines of text. The view of Venice was adapted from the 1486 woodcut by Erhard Reuwich in the Sanctae Perigrinationes. It is handsomely and finely handcoloured in blues, greens, yellows, reds, grays, etc. Double-page folio ( ca. 540 x 364 mm ), handsomely mounted, framed and glazed. Leaves XLIII and XLIIII. In fine condition and very well preserved and presented.