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S.F. Book Fair
R and D Emerson
Falls Village, Conn.
Feb. '87
#45.00
Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514)
Das Buch dei Croniken and Geschichten (In: Georg Alt)
Neuenberg: Anton Koberger, 23 Dec. 1493 f0 (Imperial)
Ref: Goff S-309, H.14510 BMC II, 437
Cop: HEHL, NYPL, PML, Stan UL. Blat CLXI

297 leaves, 11-296 numbered Fo. j-Blat CCLXXXVI.
Table and parts of text in 2 col. [insert] 62 [end insert] 59 lines and headline, 327 (340)x225 mm
Types: 165 headlines (alter der werlt) and headings; 111 text.
Title type of usual character. Used 1482-83
Two forms of E. Tail of L level with line
111 - large German text type, cut for the German ed.
of the Neuenberg Chronicle and used again in Durer's German
Apocalypse 1498.

Koberger continued to print till at least as late as 1504. He
died Oct. 3, 1513.
The largest German Incunabula - Haebler plate
The contents of each page of text are the same as those of
the original Latin ed. as far as leaf CCLVIII, the cuts being
the same except for variations in the smaller ones doing
duty for kings etc. The 3 leaves left blank for additions in
the Latin issue are omitted. The next 4 leaves are occupied by the
description of Anti Christ and the Last Judgment (5 leaves in the
Latin) Then follows the additional matter of the last 5 leaves of
the Latin, omitting the sapphics on Manimilian. Last comes
Aeneas Sylvius's description of Europe (leaves CCLXVII
segg. of the Latin) much cut down the account of Italy
expressly omitted so as not to weary the German reader.
The map occupies the 2 pages preceding the colophon.
H. Schedd - a physician who had studied at Leipzig and gathered
an extensive personal library before seeling in Neuenberg in
the early 1480's was retained to write the text.