Nuremberg Chronicle (Book) AKA Liber Chronicarum: Book of Chronicles, Die Schedelsche Weltchronik: Schedel's World History
Nuremberg Chronicle
1487 AD - 1493 AD
AKA Liber Chronicarum: Book of Chronicles, Die Schedelsche Weltchronik: Schedel's World History
An illustrated biblical paraphrase and world history, compiled and written in the early 1490's in Nuremberg, then one of the largest cities in the Holy Roman Empire.
The contents are divided into seven ages:
- First age: from creation to the Deluge
- Second age: up to the birth of Abraham
- Third age: up to King David
- Fourth age: up to the Babylonian captivity
- Fifth age: up to the birth of Jesus Christ
- Sixth age: up to the present time (1490)
- Seventh age: outlook on the end of the world and the Last Judgment
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Attachments
Opening of Nuremberg Chronicle A typical opening, uncolored
Opening of Nuremberg Chronicle Shows Erfurt
World Map 1493 From an uncolored Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)
Nuremberg 1493 Woodcut of Nuremberg from the Nuremberg Chronicle
Structure of the Reich 1493 An illustration from Nuremberg Chronicle depicting the structure of the Reich: The Holy Roman Emperor is sitting; on his right are three ecclesiastics; on his left are four secular electors.
