1493 – H. Schedel – Serta Etas Mundi CCLV

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Titles:           “Serta Etas Mundi CCLV”

Description:

A woodcut page showing Johann Mueller, a famous astronomer, mathematician and publisher. People gathered around Hans Boehm, a herdsman and preacher, promising his numerous followers indulgence drum their sins. He was considered a heretic by church authorities and the bishop of Wuerzburg let him be arrested and burnt. On verso: engravings of Galeazzo Maria Sforza – Duke of Milano, Charles I. Burondy and locust plague in northern Italy.

Comes from the Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle, woodblock cutters were Michael Wolgemut and Albrecht Dürer, printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg, 1493.

The Nuremberg Chronicles was the first printed history of the known world with about 2000 woodcuts the most picturesque work of the early time of printing. It became one of the most popular book of the 15th. century. Latin edition.

Cartographer:      Hartmann Schedel (1440 – 1514)
Sheet size:              29,6 x 40,9 cm
Year:                        1493
Technique:            wood block

Condition:
Good condition. One wormhole restored.

This is an original antique map published in 1493 and NOT a modern copy or reprint

 

On your request I will provide a Certificate of Authenticity

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