Coloured woodcut town view of Regensburg, Oberpfalz, Bavaria. Printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger in 1493.

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Decorative incunable double-leaf in folio showing Regensburg, Oberpfalz by Hartmann Schedel. From the Latin edition of the famous Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle published in 1493, the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering America. On verso the left half of the Vienna view. Leaf number XCVIII.

The woodblock cutters were Michael Wolgemut, the well-known teacher of Albrecht Dürer, and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Wohlgemut was Albrecht Dürer's tutor between 1486-90. Since the young Dürer was active in Wohlgemut's printer shop during the time the woodblock for the Nuremberg Chronicle have produced, he may also have collaborated, since some of the cuts bear a remarkably close resemblance to his Apocalypse illustrations.

Details

CartographerHartmann Schedel
TitleRatisbona
Publisher, YearAnton Koberger, Nuremberg, 1493
Plate Size19.0 x 52.5 cm (7.5 x 20.7 inches)
Sheet Size40.3 x 60.0 cm (15.9 x 23.6 inches)
ReferenceKreuer, W., Imago Civitatis, p. 146; Bachmann, F.: Die Alten Städtebilder, No. 1755

Condition

Small wormholes around the centrefold restored, some losses and holes in upper and lower white margins restored.

Cartographer

Hartmann Schedel was born 1440 in Nuremberg. He studied in Leipzig and Padua several disciplines also Physics, Medicine and Laws. Neither his social position nor his business made him famous, but his major work the so called Schedel's World Chronicle. The incunable was issued 1493 in Latin, followed by the German edition in the same year. It contains more than 1800 woodcuts out of Michael Wolgemut woodcut shop. Albrecht Dürer completed an apprenticeship with Wolgemut around 1490, so even Dürer may has worked on these woodcuts. Many of the illustrations showing cities the first time ever. In 1497 the Small Schedel was printed by Johann Schönsperger in Augsburg, a reduced version of the Nuremberg print also smaller in size. Schedel died 1514 in Nuremberg.

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Coloured woodcut town view of Regensburg, Oberpfalz, Bavaria. Printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger in 1493.

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