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Leaf from circa 1493 "Nuremberg Chronicle" with Hand-Colored Woodcuts

Item Details

Title and Author/Editor [ Liber Chronicarum (Hartmann Schedel) popularly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle ]
Illustrator Michael Wolgemut; Wilhelm Pleydenwurff
Type of Illustration Woodcut
Binding Leaf
Publisher or Printer [ Anton Koberger ]
Publication Year Undated, circa 1493
Place of Publication [Nuremberg]
Religion or Sect Catholicism
Additional Information Incunable leaf Sexta Etas Mundi, Folium CLXVII recto features hand-colored woodcut portraits of Charlemagne, Roland and others; verso depicts a comet alongside the portraits of Popes Leo III, Stephen IV, and Paschal I.

Condition

- edge wear, foxing, and toning to sheet.

Dimensions

12.5" W x 17.5" H x 0.1" D

Item #

ITMG250395

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