Incunable Leaf LXVI, Quinta etas Mundi, from the Latin Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)

Hartmann Schedel; Anton Koberger

Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493

[Incunable Leaf] Folio, 43 cm x 30 cm. Original leaf from the Liber Chronicarum, Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493. Depicting the description and floorplan of the Temple of Ezekial. Marginal soiling and spotting. 

The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated world history which is based on the Bible. It divides human history into seven ages. One of the first incunabulum to successfully combine illustrations and text. Die Schedelsche Weltchronik.

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