Nuremberg Chronicle sells for $65K
The Google of 500 Years Ago
A rare 1493 first edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle has been sold for $65,885 at Nate D. Sanders Auctions.1
The Nuremberg Chronicle is a copiously *illustrated manual of historical places, derived from many sources, particularly Italian chronicles printed in previous decades.”2
The chronicle is an illustrated world history, in which the contents are divided into seven ages:
First age: from creation to the Deluge
Second age: up to the birth of Abraham
Third age: up to King David
Fourth age: up to the Babylonian captivity
Fifth age: up to the birth of Jesus Christ
Sixth age: up to the present time (the largest part)
Seventh age: outlook on the end of the world and the Last Judgment3
Images from The Nuremberg Chronicle
The Nuremberg Chronicle compiled from older and contemporary sources by the Nuremberg doctor, humanist, and bibliophile Hartmann Schedel (1440--1514), is one of the most densely illustrated and technically advanced works of early printing. It contains 1809 woodcuts produced from 645 blocks.
Images from The Nuremberg Chronicle can be viewed online at the Library of Congress:
The Google of 500 Years Ago
Rare 1493 First Edition of Nuremberg Chronicle Sells for $65,885. Fine Books and Collections. March 4, 2024.
Background study: Duniway, David Cushing. “A STUDY OF THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 35, no. 1 (1941): 17–34.
I study the history of Western views on The End. Suggested sources on the content of the Seventh Age part of the Nuremberg Chronicle?
Amazing thank you.
On the other hand full video or even an image of Aaron Bushnell protest self-burning has been completely scrubbed from Internet — probably as “hate racist action”