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Hartmann Schedd (1440-1514.)
Liba chronicanum
Augoburg: Johann Schensperger (1481-1520), I Feb. 1497
folio Latin edition
Ret: Goff S 308 BMC II 370 Han C.R. 14509 Polain (B) 3470
Cop: Stan UL, HEHL Pn 1786 -cccviii
(KA 14975) -JJiij (of6)
366 leaves Fo. ii-cccxxxviii. (28-365 numbered) 2 columns
5 i lines + headline, 224 (232) K 135 mn.
Types 300, titles; 150, headlines + headings: 87 text.
Woodcuts. The headlines give the 'aetates mumdi'
as far as 321 a.
wood occ. from 1495 to 1500. Apparently they are in face
as Quented (COlogne) 280- with a similar mixture of
Lombard Capitals
87 text- German + Latin text type, used from 1494 on words. Heavy (?) appei suif overhanging + lower serif curled
Schoensperger is lot extent dated book is a German
Regimen basitalis printed, Sept 1481; he continued
to print into the 16th C.
Printed form Kiburgers 1493 Nmemberg edition
Johann Schoensperger may be noted among the more prolific printers
of illustrated books, but most of his illustrations were based on work
previously issued by other printers (e.g. hsi German Herbarius of 22nd
August 1485, based on Schoeffer's Mainz edition of March 1485, and
numerous works following in the wake of the Augsburg printers, Baemler
and Sorg). His use of the stencil in the colours of his botanical woodcuts in the
Herbarius contrasts with Ratdolt's method of colour-printing.2
Owing to the freader handiness of size + to the considerably
lower price due to the reduction of costs, these printed editions
were in much greater demand than the original.
Section begins folium CCXCV ggi
Be Sarmacia Regione Europe.
Before Septima etas mundi + Ultima etan mundi
Colophon- folium CCCXXXVIII- Q5
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