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The German type is designed in Friedrich Creussner's Franconian
style + has almost the same size as his - Haebler

Nuremberg Chronicle - the text ventured nothing less than
a total world history - biblical, classical & traditional. The
illustration scheme was immersely complex, embracing large
double page topographical cuts of cities which break across
pages in a variety of formulations, and figures scattered in
& among the text in every imaginable way: over 1800
pictures in all. Closer examination shows that among
the large blocks of cities, 22 illustrate 69 different subjects,
& of the figures of kings, popes, & other personalities, 96 cuts
are used to produce 598 illustrations. Cities & persons,
regardless of epoch or place, are all in the prevaling German
style.

Nuremberg became a free city in 1219. - Populations 20,000
- the first city in Germany in which paper was made.
- here the first watches & terrestrial globes were invented
- the 2 houses immediately south of Durers were occupied by
Wolgemut & his step son Pleydenwurf.
- Koberger contracted T foreign printers T. satisfy his trade ->
A merbach - Basel, Sacon-Lyon, Gruninger-Strasburg,
Johann Clein, Lyon.

The test of the 1st 5 folios of the Chronicle is set full width
of the pages. The next 4 folios are set 2 columns to the page,
after which there is no consistent pattern in this detail.
- the sixth era extends from the advent of Christ to the
coronation of Maximilian I as Kaiser of the Holy Roman
Empire in 1493. (3/5 of the book)

Hartmann Schedel's somers have been found to be principally
printed works of humanist Italians from his own library, such
as Jacob Philip of Bergamo, Flavio Blondus & Platina
(Lives of the Popes). The parts of the Chronicle which are original
are portions of the geographical descriptions of cities based upon
Schedel's travels.