Details

Subject(s)

• World maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Chronology, Historical—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Incunabula—Specimens—Maps [Browse]

Related name

• Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513 [Browse]
• Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm, -1494 [Browse]
• Wolgemut, Michael, 1434-1519 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• World maps—1493 [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514. Liber chronicarum. [Browse]
• Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Geographia. [Browse]

Notes

• Caption title.
• Relief shown pictorially.
• Wood engravings by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurrf.
• Upper right: "foliũ XIII."
• From: Liber chronicarum, 12 July 1493.
• Depicts the pre-Columbus world, based on Ptolemy's Geographia.
• Jerusalem is at the center of the map; the Indian Ocean is an enclosed area; and Scandinavia, southern Africa and the Far East are not shown.
• Eastern hemisphere (Known world).
• Twelve winds, depicted as heads surrounding the map, are named as well as major places.
• A panel of seven creatures borders the left margin.
• On verso: three columns of Latin text with the third column bordered by a panel of seven creatures on either side; upper right: "folium XII."

Source acquisition

Historic Maps copy is gift of Holly and Henry Wendt, Princeton Class of 1955.

References

• Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world 19
• Wendt, H. Envisioning the world 6

Other title(s)

• Nuremburg chronicle.
• Chronicon Nurembergense.

OCLC

80576610

International Standard Recording Code

HM 2013-40

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