Nuremberg Chronicle | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2008.313
People: Michel Wolgemuth, German (1434 - 1519)
Title: Nuremberg Chronicle
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Nuremberg Chronicle
Original Language Title: Liber chronicarum
Classification: Prints
Work Type: book
Date: 1493
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/273107

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Woodcut and letterpress
Technique: Woodcut
Dimensions: cover: 47.3 x 33.3 cm (18 5/8 x 13 1/8 in.)
book page: 45.3 x 31.8 cm (17 13/16 x 12 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Jo. Grandler, 1508.
Joan. Cantius Duregger.
Ursulae Oeniponti.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition: Latin

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Permanent transfer from the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, Gray Collection of Books
Accession Year: 2008
Object Number: 2008.313
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

James E. Walsh, A Catalogue of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in the Harvard University Library, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton, NY, 1991), vol. 1, no. 730

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2008.313: Nuremberg Chronicle