Nuremberg Chronicle Front Page

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"Die Schedelsche Weltchronik (Nuremberg Chronicle)", Hartmann Schedel, The German language edition, 1493. One of the most important books in the history of printing, 'Liber Chronicarum' (Nuremberg Chronicle or Weltchronik) is an illustrated history of the world by Dr Hartmann Schedel with illustrations by Michael Wolgemut, his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and (probably) Wolgemut's apprentice, Albrecht Dürer. The printing was carried out in Nuremberg in 1493 by the renowned printer-scholar, Anton Koberger, first in Latin followed by a German edition a few months later.  

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