Liber chronicarum
Contributors: Jeanne d'Arc Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Anton Koberger
Published: 1493
Place of publication: Nuremberg
Language: lat
Notes: Woodcuts by Wohlgemut, Pleydenwurff, and Albrecht Dürer and two woodcut maps.

Variants listed by W.B. Todd, The book collector, 1964, p.497-98; see A. Wilson, The making of the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1976, and Schullian, Cat. of incun. & MSS, 431.

References: Goff S307; Klebs 889.1; BM 15th cent., II, p.437; Schullian 431.

Rare Book copy 1: Bound with wooden boards, now broken and loose. Incomplete, with some leaves bound out of order, duplicated (from a more heavily cropped copy), or altogether lacking. Some woodcuts colored in. Some manuscript notes in margins

Rare Book copy 2: Complete. Bound in red gilt-stamped and -tooled leather, with illuminated and painted initials

Rare Book copy 3: Thoroughly disbound. Incomplete. One woodcut and some text effaced on f. 169v

Rare Book copy 4: Bound in brown tooled and stamped leather, with some painted initials. Complete. Some manuscript notes in margins5NNC

Gift; Prof. & Mrs. Stanley Goodman in memory of Dr. Judah A. Joffe.

Gift; VADM Robert S.Salzer, USN in memory of Dr. Benjamin Salzer.