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Nuremberg Chronicle
The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum), compiled by physician Hartmann Schedel and printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger in 1493, is one of the…
Timeline
- c. 1490–1493Nuremberg · NurembergSchedel compiled a world-history manuscript from the Bible, ancient historians, and medieval chronicles, while the Wolgemut workshop carved numerous city-view and genealogical woodblocks in preparation for printing.
- 1493Nuremberg · NurembergKoberger's press successively issued the Latin Liber Chronicarum and a German translation in the summer and winter of 1493, bringing the world chronicle to the European book market with illustrations on an unprecedented scale.
- 1494European book market · EuropeThe book quickly became an object of collecting and plagiarism; its city-view woodblocks were repeatedly reused in later maps and histories, establishing the illustrated world chronicle as a publishing genre.
Sources
- Nürnberg Chronicle https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nurnberg-Chronicle
- The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle — Adrian Wilson (1976)