It is one of the most noteworthy “incunables” (any pre-1501 printed and not handwritten work in Europe) of Germany and is a fine early specimen of a successful and extensive integration of text and illustration. (Note that Johannes Gutenberg had invented the printing press not very long ago in 1447). The book, which was created on commission from Nuremberg merchants Sebald Schreyer (1446-1520) and Sebastian Kammermeister (1446-1503), was published in Latin and German by printer Anton Koberger (godfather of the renowned painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer) in 1493. The Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles) – also known as Die Schedelsche Weltchronik (Schedel’s World History) and the Nuremberg Chronicle – is a history of the world from the 15th-century European Christian perspective written by the German physician and humanist Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) and illustrated by painters Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff.
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