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Image ID :	FrontCover
View/Description :	Front cover of the Nuremberg Chronicle
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Image Date :	2003
Image Source :	http://www.beloit.edu/nuremberg/index.htm
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Rights Owner :	Beloit College, Beloit, WI
URL to larger image :	http://www.beloit.edu/nuremberg/book/index/front_cover.htm

Work ID :	NurembergChronicle
Title :	Nuremberg Chronicle [POPULAR] Die Schedelsche Weltchronik [GERMAN] Schedel's World Chronicle [ENGLISH] Liber Chronicarum [LATIN] Book of Chronicles [ENGLISH]
Creator/Agent :	Schedel, Hartmann [PRINTER] [ULAN] Wolgemut, Michael [ENGRAVER] [ULAN] Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm [PRINTMAKER] [ULAN]
Date (of work) :	1493 [PUBLISHED]
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Location/Museum :	United States [NATION] [TGN] Wisconsin [STATE] [TGN] Rock [COUNTY] [TGN] Beloit [TGN] Morse Library, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, United States
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Publisher :	Koberger, Anton [ULAN]
Description :	An incunabulum of about 645 woodcut illustrated text pages describing the history of the world and divided into seven sections, first published in Latin and then translated into and published in German, some editions handcolored with watercolor
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Work Type :	Books [AAT] Incunabula [AAT] Chronicles [AAT]
Measurements :	342 x 500 mm
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Technique :	Illumination [AAT] Woodcut [AAT]
Style/Period/ Group/Movement :	Medieval [AAT] Renaissance [AAT]
Cultural Context :	European [AAT] German [AAT] Bavarian
Subject :	History Chronicle Histories [AAT]
Relation :	bound book of about 645 pages of illustrated text LubeckNurembergChronicle
Language :	German
Text Reference :	http://www.beloit.edu/nuremberg/inside/contents/index.htm http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b2200022x http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Chronicle
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Notes :	Some 400 Latin and 300 German copies survive into the twenty-first century, many with hand-colored illustrations.