Register des Buchs der Croniken vnd Geschichten : mit Figure[n] vnd Pildnüssen von Anbegi[n]n der Welt bis auf dise v[n]nsere Zeit.
Schedel, Hartmann,1440-1514.
Alt, Georg,approximately 1450-1510,translator.
Wolgemut, Michael,1434-1519,engraver.
Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm,-1494,engraver.
Koberger, Anton,approximately 1440-1513,printer.
[Nuremberg] : Durch ... Anthonien Koberger daselbst zu Nürmberg gedruckt, auf Anregu[n]g vnd Begern ... Sebalden Schreyers vnd Sebastia[n]n Kamermaisters ...,
Volbracht a[m]m. xxiij. Tag des Monats Decembris nach der Gepurt Cristi vnssers Haylands M.cccc.xciij, Iar. [23 December 1493]
Author, Hartmann Schedel, from original manuscript.
Translation, by George Alt, of: Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum. Nuremberg, 12 July, 1493.
Imprint from colophon.
From colophon: ... vo[n] hohgelerte[n] Manne[n] in latein ... versa[m]melt vnd durch Georgium Alten ... auss de[n]selben latein ... in diss teütsch gebracht ... vnd auch mit Anhangung Michael Wolgemütz vnnd Wilhelm Pleydenwurffs Maler ... die diss Werck mit Figuren wercklich geziert haben.
Signatures: [1]¹⁰ [2]⁶ [3-5]⁴ [6-9]⁶ [10]² [11]⁴ [12-14]⁶ [15]² [16-17]⁶ [18-23]⁴ [24-27]⁶ [28]² [29]⁶ [30]⁴ [31-33]⁶ [34]² [35]⁴ [36-50]⁶ [51-52]⁴ [53-55]⁶ [56]⁶([56]5+chi²). Standard references vary on composition of last gathering.
With a final blank leaf.
Xylographic title.
Capital spaces without initials in index and on leaf I; printed capitals elsewhere.
Double columns in index and parts of text.
Capitals supplied in red in index. Illuminated initial and painted border at foot of text on recto of folio 1.
Some illustrations partly coloured.
With marginal annotations in an early hand.
Hain
Proctor
BM 15th cent.,
Goff
ISTC
Sabin
GW
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Includes (leaves CCLXVIIv-CCLXXXVI) an extract from Aeneas Sylvius' description of Europe.
Scored out inscriptions on title page, one dated 1630. Acquired by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century.
Early blind tooled pigskin over wooden boards, once with clasps of which no trace remains.
Chronology, Historical
World history
Germany Nuremberg.