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The Nuremberg chronicle, or, The book of chronicles from the beginning of the world : the most famous of German picture books of the fifteenth century, printed in the free city of Nuremberg in fourteen hundred & ninety-three : its background, its provenance, its creators, its patrons, its illustrations and its literary plan : a monograph / by Henry Lewis Bullen ; with a leaf from the first Latin edition.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Portfolio Z241.S31 B9 1930
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bullen, Henry Lewis, 1857-1938.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514. Liber chronicarum.
- Schedel, Hartmann.
- Printing--Germany--Nuremberg--History--Origin and antecedents.
- Printing.
- Incunabula--Germany--Nuremberg--Bibliography.
- Incunabula.
- History.
- Nuremberg (Germany)--Imprints.
- Nuremberg (Germany).
- Germany--Nuremberg.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zamorano Club (bookplate)
- Treanor, John, Mrs. (inscription)
- Physical Description:
- XXV pages : illustrations, facsimiles, genealogical table, map ; 48 cm
- Other Title:
- Nuremberg chronicle
- Book of chronicles from the beginning of the world
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Printed for the Book Club of California by John Henry Nash, 1930.
- Notes:
- "Three hundred copies have been printed (in each of which has been inserted a leaf, or leaves, from the Latin edition of the Chronicle printed by Anthony Koberger at Nuremberg in the year one thousand four hundred and ninety-three) and are now sent forth to its members by The Book Club of California."--Colophon.
- "The copy of the Nuremberg chronicle used in the present study of the book is of the original Latin edition, now in the possession of the Typographic Library and Museum in Jersey City."--P. [III].
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.
- Penn Libraries copy is no. 222 of a limited ed. of 300 copies.
- Penn Libraries copy has f. CLXXXVIII from a copy of Hartmann Schedel's Liber chronicarum, printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493 (ISTC is00307000) inserted.
- Penn Libraries copy has bookplate of Zamorano Club, Los Angeles, Calif., with typescript inscription ("Gift of Mrs. John Treanor. 668") on front pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 41892702
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